Description:  Second Nature Entrada is a year-round licensed therapeutic wilderness program.   Our program guides adults and adolescents toward a healthy, fulfilling lifestyle.  We are looking for energetic and creative people who love the outdoors.  Field Instructors facilitate a clinically-focused wilderness experience that allows our clients to actualize their potential.  Our Field Instructors teach and role-model healthy expression of emotion and appropriate behavior patterns while keeping our clients safe backpacking in the desert of southwestern Utah.

At Entrada, doctorate level therapists work together with Field Instructors as a treatment team.  Instructors work in a team of three to four staff with a group of eight to ten clients.  Treatment plans are individualized for each client.  These plans include flexible lengths of stay, daily group therapy sessions, and individual therapy sessions.  The wilderness provides immediate natural consequences for client’s choices.  The treatment team is available to process this cause and effect relationship and facilitate the client making new choices in the future.  Entrada focuses on teaching clients how to communicate assertively and be accountable for their choices.

In addition to the clinical approach, Field Instructors teach primitive skills, backpacking skills, and Leave No Trace ethics.  Our clients and instructors backpack five days a week between two to ten miles a day.  Our Instructors work an eight day shift in the backcountry with six days off to mountain bike, rock climb, travel, or simply relax.

All prospective Field Instructors attend a seven-day orientation period in the backcountry.  The orientation is an opportunity to experience first-hand how our program works and enjoy a week in the amazing wilderness of Southern Utah.  Orientation participants will learn to maintain client safety, role-model assertive communication skills, and teach clients how to be accountable for their choices.  Participating in the orientation does not guarantee you a job. However, if you have been selected to participate in the training you have already met some of the requirements and Second Nature Entrada has high hopes for you to be hired.  At the end of the orientation you will be notified of your employment status.

New instructors begin by participating in an internship period. This consists of three, eight-day shifts.  During the internship, new instructors have the chance to learn the program by watching, doing, and listening to the experiences of experienced staff.  After this period, Field Instructors move through Second Nature's Level system (Levels I-V).  The Field Instructor position requires a one year commitment.

Instructors must be 21 years of age.  They must have a high school diploma or the equivalent.  First Aid and C.P.R. certification is required. Wilderness First Responder, EMT or WEMT certification is preferred. A Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent amount of relevant experience is preferred.  Second Nature Entrada expects a year commitment from all of our Field Instructors.

Upcoming Orientation Dates:

April 5th-11th (FULL)

May 10th-16th

July 12th-18th