Residential Care Technician Lead (Wateroak Transitional Housing)

Highland Rivers Health; Cedartown (GA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Flexible Benefits

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Personal Day

Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)

NHSC loan forgiveness

Clinical supervision for licensure

Job summary

Highland Rivers Behavioral Health operates a women’s program offering residential and intensive outpatient services to support recovery and employment readiness. The role emphasizes supervising residential care workers, mentoring participants, and coordinating supportive services within a gender-specific program.

The position focuses on guiding staff, facilitating skill-building, and assisting in GED and job placement efforts to help women transition to stable housing and employment.

Qualifications

• Clinical supervision and coaching of staff during shifts.
• Support in training basic personal, social, and work skills.
• Manage administrative, clerical, and related duties.

Responsibilities

• Supervise Residential Care Technicians during shifts with clinical and administrative oversight.
• Assist in training basic personal, social, and work skills.
• Perform administrative, clerical, and related support activities.
• Observe client behavior, document observations and incidents.
• Provide guidance and motivation to promote recovery.
• Oversee safe self-administration of medications.
• Assist in GED attainment, resume building, and job placement.
• Mentor clients and support group activities.
• Support understanding of substance misuse and behavior management.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Training & coaching

Administrative support

Behavior management basics

Job description

There is a place for you at Highland Rivers Behavioral Health!

Highland Rivers provides treatment and recovery services to individuals impacted by mental illness; substance use disorders and intellectual developmental disabilities.

This is a gender specific program; only female candidates will be considered.

Job Summary:

The Highland Rivers Behavioral Health women's program offers hope, love and assistance for women in recovery by removing substance abuse as a barrier to employment and living in the community. The Women's program includes both residential and intensive outpatient services that address risk factors for relapse. Services support women in achieving abstinence, maintaining recovery, avoiding illegal activity and meeting parenting responsibilities. The program also provides supports to help women obtain employment and transition into safe and stable housing.

Are you ready to make a Difference?

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervises Residential Care Technicians during their shift, providing clinical supervision, coaching and administrative supervision.
• Assist in training of basic personal and social skills, simple academics, or work skills.
• Performs various administrative, clerical and related support activities.
• Observes and monitors client's behavior and charts observations and incidents.
• Provide guidance, motivation and encouragement needed to promote recovery.
• Oversee self-administering of medication.
• Assist in obtaining GED's, resume building, job placement and may transport consumers to and from part time jobs.
• Serve as mentors and assist in group and outing activities.
• Assisting in knowledge of substance misuse and of problems encountered by chemically dependent individuals; basic understanding of behavior management
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits:

• Health Insurance through the State Health Benefit Plan of GA
• Flexible Benefits such as dental, vision, life, critical illness, etc.
• Retirement Plan with employer matching
• 4 weeks of Paid Time Off with increase of accruals based on years of service
• 10 paid holidays
• 1 personal day
• Qualifying employer for Public Student Loan Forgiveness
• NHSC loan forgiveness in qualifying counties.
• Clinical supervision for candidates on a licensure track.