Family Guide

**Family Guide**

**Rainbow Lake**

**ABOUT US**

Campfire Circle (formerly Camp Ooch & Camp Trillium) has offered healing through happiness for thousands of kids and families affected by childhood cancer since 1983. It’s where kids can be kids, and families can be families—engaging in camp-inspired community, in-hospital, and overnight camp programs, at no cost to them. As a privately funded organization, Campfire Circle donors make thousands of life-changing experiences possible for Campers throughout the year, all across Ontario.

At Campfire Circle we are committed to ensuring employment is accessible within our organization. To help reduce financial barriers for summer staff members, we have funding available to assist with costs related to the job such as: camping equipment/gear, outdoor clothing, training/certifications, and transportation, mileage, or parking. If you require financial assistance related to the program, you are invited to make this known during the recruitment process

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

Do our values of care, community, inclusion, sustainability, and integrity resonate with you? Whether it’s at Rainbow Lake, a quiet 143 acres site in Waterford, at Muskoka, which features 400 wooded acres in the town of Rosseau, or at one of our urban locations in the GTA, London, Ottawa or Hamilton, you are connecting kids and families with fun indoor and outdoor activities that help improve their overall wellbeing.

Campfire Circle will be running in-person overnight camp programs at both of our overnight camp locations, and community and day camp programs in the GTA, London, Ottawa and Hamilton.

Do you have experience as a staff or volunteer working with children in a recreational setting? We are searching for **Family Guides** to join our Rainbow Lake Summer Staff Team in 2023.

Reporting to the Manager, Overnight Programs and the Director, Overnight Programs, and working closely with the rest of the summer staff team and in support of our volunteers, will work in a team to support and train staff and volunteers in providing parents/guardians and their campers, ages 0 to 18 at family overnight camps with a safe, accessible and inclusive camp experience. Alongside a team of other cabin counsellors, the first priority of this role is to be responsible for a family and their safety while on site, including ensuring that Campers are supervised at all times. This role includes supporting families at all activities, meals and gatherings, as well as being a positive role model, and working with a team of staff and volunteers to create an experience and environment that will best meet the needs of all Campers and their families.

During your experience at Campfire Circle you will hone and develop your skills relating to group facilitation, planning creative, innovative and adaptive programs, public speaking, volunteer support and management, emotional resilience and compassion, and building personal and professional relationships within a team of like-minded co-workers and volunteers.

**Start Date**:June 21st, 2023

**End Date**:September 1st, 2023

**Rate: $4,500** (for the full contract)

*Training/virtual training dates may occur prior to this date and are included in your full contract rate*

**ABOUT YOU**

In accordance with our mandate of creating a caring and safe environment for ill children and their families, we require attestation of childhood vaccinations, updated Police Record with Vulnerable Sector Screening, and proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 for all of our staff. We also require TB testing for all our program facing staff. Additionally, all of our staff are required to be currently eligible to work in Canada.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- Required Criteria_
- Experience as a staff or volunteer in a camp environment and/or working with children in a recreational setting.
- Experience working with children with disabilities and/or additional physical, behavioural, and/or psychosocial needs as well as experience facilitating adaptive programming.
- Valid Standard First Aid & CPR-C certification for duration of the contract or willing & able to successfully take the certification (paid for by Campfire Circle).
- Current police reference check and vulnerable sector screening.
- Advantageous Criteria_
- Experience creating and facilitating adaptive programming.
- Bronze Cross or NL certification.
- Overnight summer camp experience.
- Demonstrated ability to work with children with serious illnesses and an understanding of how illness impacts the entire family.
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI), Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NVCI), or similar certification or training
- Experience in lifts and transfers and the use of mobility devices
- Demonstrated commitment to volunteerism or volunteer sector.
- A current G or G2 Class driver’s license and eligible to be insured under camp policy.
- Particular Working Conditions: _
- This position requires living at the Rainbow Lake ca