Description

AWARE is looking for the right person to lead a youth mental health residential services team as the Program Manager.

If you embrace new ideas with a heart full of energy, we invite you to join a caring, compassionate, and fully engaged team that isn’t afraid to get vulnerable with one another. We have gritty, but respectful conversations that drive the needle forward on what it means to provide the highest quality of care for our clients. At AWARE, our strength lies in our culture of care.

AWARE’s Unconditional Care Principles inspire the services we provide to each person who comes to us for care and these principles lead how we treat ourselves and our clients; with hope, compassion and focus on the next right step. When you join the AWARE team, you will become part of an organization that has a rich history (over 45 years!) helping Montanans with mental health and/or developmental disabilities. AWARE strives to provide the highest quality of care, every single day. When you join the AWARE team, you will be joining a team that believes that building on strengths is the key to success, that prides itself in taking on and sticking with the hardest challenges, believes we are agents of change, that everything is normal until proven otherwise, and that families are our most important resource.

Working for our organization means that regardless of your role, we’ll support you so you can support others. AWARE seeks to provide opportunities for employees to grow professionally through its tuition advancement program, professional development opportunities and in-house trainings.

Supervises and implements treatment plans and provides therapeutic services through individual, group, and family therapies. Provides supervision of direct care staff within AWARE Youth Group Homes. Provides direct communications between shifts to ensure consistency of programming. Evaluates employee performance; develops remedial plans to address employee problems and makes disciplinary recommendations to the Program Director.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. The employee will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by his/her supervisor.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide supervision of assigned staff within AWARE Group Homes.
• Supervise and apply treatment plans of those living in the group home.
• Provide therapeutic assistance with individual, group, and family situations as needed.
• Provide direct communication between shifts.
• Evaluate employee performance and make disciplinary recommendations.

Requirements

Required Skills, Abilities & Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services or a related field is preferred; an equivalency can be used based on experience and education.
• Minimum of two (2) years experience in a community-based program for the developmentally disabled.
• Administrative experience with the direct supervision of staff.
• Valid Montana Driver’s License.

To learn more please visit www.aware-inc.org.

Benefits:

AWARE proudly offers an excellent benefits package, uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, professional growth, and achieving financial security. AWARE’s benefits include:

• Annual raises
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Health Insurance
• Dental/Vision Insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Life Insurance
• Wellness programs
• Generous paid time off

AWARE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer