Mental Health Worker-Group Home

Position Summary

As a Mental Health Worker in our therapeutic group homes, you will work directly with youth as they build relationships, develop life skills, practice emotional regulation, and work toward their individual treatment goals. This is hands-on, relationship-based behavioral health work. Mental Health Workers help create a safe, structured, and supportive home environment where youth can experience consistency, connection, accountability, and opportunities for growth.

Client Care

Recognize opportunities within everyday activities to reinforce therapeutic goals and healthy decision-making. Support youth through emotional and behavioral challenges using de-escalation, relationship, established safety procedures, and crisis-response skills when needed. Facilitate recreational, therapeutic, and skill-building activities. Teach and model independent living skills including cooking, cleaning, hygiene, organization, budgeting, and caring for a shared living space.

Procedure

Administer medications according to organizational policies and procedures. Transport youth to school, appointments, activities, family visits, and community outings. Complete timely and accurate documentation related to youth progress, behaviors, significant events, medications, and services provided.

Participate

Communicate and collaborate with coworkers, managers, treatment team members, families, schools, and other involved professionals as appropriate. Participate in staff meetings, training, supervision, and ongoing professional development.

Support

Build healthy, professional relationships with youth using trauma-informed and relationship-based approaches. Provide supervision, support, structure, and guidance throughout the daily routine. Help youth identify and practice coping, communication, emotional regulation, and problem-solving skills. Support individual treatment goals and implement established treatment and behavioral interventions. Help maintain a clean, safe, welcoming, and home-like environment.

Qualifications

21 years old or older. Criminal / Child Abuse Clearance: Must pass criminal record and child abuse registry background check as required by the State of Montana. High School Diploma. Willingness and ability to obtain certification in First Aid/CPR and Violence Intervention Prevention.

What You Bring

This may be a good fit for you if you can: Remain calm and think clearly during challenging situations. Build relationships without taking difficult behavior personally. Balance empathy with healthy boundaries and accountability. Work collaboratively with a team. Accept feedback and continue developing your skills. Recognize that progress with youth is rarely a straight line. Find value in both the big breakthroughs and the small everyday successes.

Values

Faith - is being sure of successfully achieving our mission, based upon our trust in a loving creator. Integrity - doing what is right, putting the needs of others above your own, and living by the highest values. Relationship - being committed to one another in a mutually respectful, dignified, healthy, and honoring manner. Stewardship is the use of any resource or talent entrusted to YBGR to fulfill the mission and values.

Communication

The ability to effectively interact and communicate with others. These skills are essential for building and maintaining relationships, collaborating with colleagues, resolving conflicts, and navigating various social situations. Ability to communicate effectively with youth, their families, and other members of the treatment team to facilitate treatment and support plans.

Initiative

Demonstrate being self-motivated, self-disciplined, and diligent with forward thinking. Demonstrate the ability to think of their team over self and define success collectively rather than individually.

Skills

Ability to empathize with the struggles and emotions of youth experiencing mental health challenges, and to provide compassionate care. Understanding of professional boundaries and ethical guidelines in mental health care, including maintaining confidentiality and respecting patient autonomy. Ability to maintain accurate and detailed records of youth’s interactions, treatment plans, and progress notes in compliance with YBGR requirements.