What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant House Manager position at KidsPeace?
🌟 Now Hiring: Assistant House Manager for Mental Health Residential Facility
KidsPeace is searching for passionate, mission‑driven professionals ready to make a meaningful impact in the lives of children, families, and communities.
💙 About KidsPeace
For more than 140 years, KidsPeace has been dedicated to providing hope, healing, and opportunity. As a private charitable organization, we offer a full continuum of behavioral and mental health services — including psychiatric hospital care, residential treatment programs, accredited education, and foster care services. Our culture is built on compassion, creativity, collaboration, and a deep commitment to improving lives.
What We Offer
- Generous PTO
- Tuition assistance & student loan forgiveness options
- Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision, and pet insurance.
- Two week paid training program
- Professional growth: ongoing development, training opportunities, and structured career pathways.
- Supportive environment: a collaborative and compassionate team culture.
🧠 Position: Assistant House Manager
The Assistant House Manager plays a critical role in supporting the administrative and operational coordination of the Residential Unit. This position works closely with the House Manager to help develop, implement, and maintain unit policies and procedures, while ensuring that staff and clients remain informed of all agency and departmental guidelines. In addition to administrative responsibilities, the Assistant House Manager contributes to the overall effectiveness of the unit by supporting staff performance, maintaining program quality, and responding appropriately to emergencies or critical incidents.
This role also involves providing direct supervision and guidance to children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral challenges. The Assistant House Manager is expected to demonstrate compassion, professionalism, and respect in all interactions, while maintaining a strong, consistent focus on safety and well-being.
A key responsibility is remaining actively aware of each child’s daily status, progress, and emerging concerns, ensuring timely communication and intervention when needed. The position requires the ability to differentiate between discipline and punishment and to look beyond surface behaviors in order to understand and address underlying needs. Success in this role depends on building trusting, supportive relationships with youth. The Assistant House Manager recognizes that these relationships are foundational to implementing individualized treatment plans and delivering effective unit programming that promotes growth, stability, and positive outcomes.
🎓Qualifications (Education, Training and Experience)
- Associate's degree or 60 college credit hours plus 3 years of work experience with children is required, OR Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college in Mental Health or Human Services field plus 1 year of work experience with children is required.
- Prior supervisory experience preferred.
- Must be at least 21 years of age or older.
- Valid driver's license required.
- Ability to clear physicals/trainings to fully perform restraints as necessary when ordered by a licensed professional using the current approved KidsPeace restraint methodology on youth who may weigh in excess of 250 pounds and who are physically threatening or otherwise presenting a threat to themselves or others.
🎁 What We Offer
✨Schedule: Sunday through Thursday or Tuesday through Saturday (evening shifts, typically 3PM-11PM)
✨ Competitive Pay: Hourly - $23.75-$24.75 (Annually $49,000-$51,480 -- overtime available)
✨Generous Time Off & Comprehensive Benefits — medical, dental, vision, and even pet insurance
✨ Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Forgiveness Opportunities
💬 Why Join KidsPeace?
KidsPeace delivers leading Mental Health services for children, teens, and young adults. You'll be part of a caring, mission‑driven team dedicated to supporting your growth as much as the individuals and families we serve. If you’re passionate about making a difference — we want to meet you.
📩 Ready to Make an Impact?
Apply today and become part of a team where your work truly matters.
Salary : $49,000 - $51,480