Program Director

**PROGRAM DIRECTOR AND THERAPIST - Contract**

**Position Type**:Program Director opportunity is available only during our program dates. We operate on a 3 weeks on/ 3 weeks off schedule. You'll provide the Program Director services for 3 weeks, and then you will have three weeks off. There is a longer break at the end of each season between the end of November and mid-January.

**COMPANY**:Fresh Start Health Retreat, operating from Ocean Resort at 4384 South Island Hwy, Campbell River, BC, V9H 1E8

**Program Director**Position** Summary**: You are a healer by heart and love helping people in their healing journey. You are the primary person responsible for daily health check-ins with people having various physical and emotional issues and looking after program guests' requests. You will do the initial orientation, support people through their healing process, provide nutritional supplementation to support them with their symptoms, facilitate occasional group time, teach some lectures and manage group dynamics.

This position is 30% about guiding guests group through the program/ education/ health support, 30% about documentation management/ various tasks (collect end-of-stay documentation, keep paper trail of extra appointment requests, do appointment bookings, package supplements, prepare end-of-day shift report and many more), and 30% about managing situations and group dynamics. There are a lot of simple tasks involved, yet you will also have a lot of interaction with guests and various challenges to resolve on a regular basis, which requires emotional and physical resilience.

**CREDENTIALS PREFERRED**:
Chartered Herbalist, Registered Natural Health Consultant, Registered Acupuncturist, Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Licensed Practical Nurse, Doctor of Natural Health, Doctor of Homeopathy, Registered Natural Health Consultant, or other similar credentials. Note: If you do not have the credentials listed, but meet all other requirements, feel free to apply. MOST IMPORTANT: You need to have some understanding of physical and emotional health.

**PROGRAM DIRECTOR (PD) PAY**:
You are paid a set fee per program, **not hourly**.

**Pay**:$25**per hour; if herbology training **$30** per hour, Contract pay. Herbalist Certification is a must for this position. If you do not have it, you must complete it within 1 yr. of being hired and get registered for the course before or shortly after you start the position. Recommended Herbology Course: Chartered Herbologist, Dominion College.

**Total Pay for PD Hours (set fee, for 100 hrs.): $2,500 at $25; $3,000 at $30**

Pre-program Profiles Study and Group Health Summary Preparation (**2 hrs.**)

Sat Pre-Program: 10 a.m.12 p.m. Meet with Program Manager (about guest's health info) (**2 hrs**.)

Sun 7:45 a.m. - 10 a.m. (2nd, 3rd and 4th Sun); 4:00-7:30 pm (1st, 2nd & 3rd Sun), minus 15-min break (**18 hrs**.)

Mon, Wed, Thu, Sat 7:45 a.m. 2:30 p.m., minus 15-min break (6.5 hrs.
- 4 days per week
- 3 week_s = _**78 hrs**_._**)

Note: If some days you need to stay longer, you may leave earlier on others (but not earlier than 1:30 p.m.).

Some Orientation nights may finish later. Occasionally, orientation may be cancelled if there are no arrivals that day.

Note: If some days you need to stay longer and it does not even out with other hours, you may leave earlier on some light days (but not earlier than 1:30 p.m.). It is not allowed to skip breaks.

**Unpaid Duties**:
Dinner Finale 2-4 times a year, the last Saturday of program 5:00 pm-7:30 pm, - unpaid for all contractors (=free meal)

Team Meetings 2-4 times a year (Zoom or in-Person)

Hours related to personal research and health studies, and professional growth (reading extra books) are not paid. We expect that you enjoy learning and will take the initiative to read more about the topics you are presenting, the healing process and various health topics in your free time. We will provide additional books and video materials.

**ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES**:
**Suggested additional therapy schedule**: 3 hrs. of appointments per day, 3 afternoons per week, 3:30-7 p.m.

Estimated Total Earnings from additional services: $1,500 (25 hrs. at $60). Claimable Registered Therapist services rates differ from this (ex., Reg. Acupuncturist, TCM). If you can handle more or longer days, your income may increase, but it is most important is that you take time for rejuvenation and that therapies are not competing with your PD hours and permanent therapists' business.

Example of therapies: massages, salt scrub, reflexology, food detox with light massage, hot and cold fomentations, laser therapy, 1-on-1 health coaching sessions.

**SKILLS AND QUALITIES**REQUIRED**:

- **Excellent communication and people**skills**: you enjoy working directly with people, have a warm, nurturing personality, and connect with others naturally. You are a very good listener. You will be a mama/ papa for the group, a person who embraces guests, who give