Employment Opportunities at Sunrise

Thank you for your interest in joining the Sunrise team!

Sunrise team members are selected for their compassion, commitment to evidence-based approaches, excellent credentials, team orientation, and abiding passion to help young people and their families. The result of our rigorous selection process is a group of professionals that functions like a team and cares like a family-both for clients and for each other. Sunrise provides an environment in which career educators and therapists can continue to develop professionally over the long term.

WE ARE LOOKING TO HIRE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS…

Sunrise Residential Treatment Center is an equal employment opportunity employer. Sunrise prohibits any discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, or municipal law. Discrimination is prohibited throughout all phases of your employment — including being interviewed, hired, promoted, compensated, and provided benefits.

Sunrise RTC is committed to enriching the therapeutic and healing experience it offers through the diversity of its employees and community. Sunrise seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse staff who will contribute to the organization’s excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, and relevance in a global society. Sunrise encourages applications from individuals from underrepresented groups, including individuals of color, individuals with diverse gender identities, individuals with diverse life experience, and individuals with a demonstrated commitment to applying and including diverse backgrounds and perspectives to learning, service, and leadership in the field of behavioral health.

…WITH STRONG PERSONAL VALUES.

Sunrise’s Philosophy is built on components aimed at promoting positive, lasting change in teens and their families. It involves four principles which can make significant changes in a teen’s life when they properly addresses them with competent professional guidance: empathy, service, trusting relationships, and growth. Our employees are instrumental in helping our students learn these values.

Empathy

The environment at Sunrise encourages employees to model how to express love and respect for each student, society, and the environment in healthy ways. We believe love to be a powerful motivator for lasting change. Love in healthy relationships facilitates the possibility of change that can be maintained.

Service

Service to others is a trait often lost in today’s busy world. This deeply held value helps to build a strong sense of community, repair trust, and offer a hope for others who may have lost a sense of belief in themselves or others.

Trusting Relationships

Peer-to-peer interactions based on the specific emotional needs of the students while building relationships with trusted staff (clinicians, mentors, medical staff, teachers, etc.), is a key to the student’s success. We build deep, lasting relationships that help ensure long-term success. Every person that enters our door is a piece of this success.

Growth

Growth is where we will find the lasting change. Students need to trust those around them and develop a new internal compass to reclaim their agency and choose a path forward that is no longer determined by traumatic events or survival. Students can only reach their highest potential when given the proper tools to grow and through in-the-moment coaching from mentors, clinicians, and teachers.

AMANDA MCNATT

Sunrise Team Member since 2013

"Sunrise began as a part time job that worked with my schedule in between going to school and taking care of my son. I had no idea this world even existed. At the time, I was studying criminology and wanted to work as a probation officer in the juvenile justice system. Sunrise was a place I felt I could use my talents to truly make a difference in the lives of teens. It is a place that is in line with my values and incredibly fulfilling. To see teens and their family come to our doors with little hope left in them, and having the experience to confidently say - you will get there, things will get better, you will get your teenager back - and to offer that hope to families is what keeps me going. Not only has Sunrise been a place of growth and healing for so many students and families, it's a place where I have grown both personally and professionally. I never imagined when I started as a youth mentor in 2013, that today I would be the Executive Director of Sunrise. Sunrise continues to offer so many opportunities for growth whether you are interested in an entry level part time job, or a career in mental health.”

EMILY MCFARLAND

Sunrise Team Member since 2019

“After seven years of continually moving around the country, I found my way to Sunrise by coincidence. I was new to the St. George area and I expressed to a stranger that I was looking for a more stable job and a place to permanently settle down. He suggested looking into employment at Sunrise, and I applied on the spot. I had never heard of a Residential Treatment Center before, but with a degree in a related field and a passion for helping teenagers, it seemed like a good fit. I not only found a position at Sunrise, but so much more! Working at Sunrise is more than just a job, it is a place where you are surrounded by a team who cares about you, challenges you, and wants to see you succeed. It is such a unique experience to work somewhere that is regularly investing in its employees and creating opportunities for growth. I have had the chance to fill a few different positions during my time at Sunrise from which I have developed new and important skills for my own life, communication, and relationships while having so much fun with the staff and students along the way!”