Youth Residential Program Leader

Legacy Treatment Services Group; Mount Laurel Township (NJ); On-site; USD 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3.2 weeks PTO first year

Health insurance

Vision, dental & life insurance

403(b) employer match

9 agency-paid holidays

Training opportunities

Tuition Reimbursement after 1 year

Job summary

Legacy Treatment Services Group seeks a Program Manager to supervise a residential treatment program in Burlington County, NJ. You will partner with the Clinical Team Leader to ensure a safe, strengths-based therapeutic milieu and effective budget and staff management.

The role oversees staff, scheduling, and program implementation, while coordinating with families, schools, and community resources to support consumers’ emotional growth and positive outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, education or related fields.
• Substantive field experience may substitute for degree.
• Prior residential counselor experience.
• 1 year of supervisory experience.

Responsibilities

• Direct coordination of daily program activities.
• Residence leader.
• Hire, supervise and evaluate all Program staff, including emergency scheduling of on call staff members.
• Develop and implement orientation and training programs for all Program employees.
• Participate in and share leadership of staff meetings.
• Assign Consumers to lead residential therapists and monitor these relationships.
• Develop and implement Program staff schedule.
• Address and approve timecards.
• Participate in individual, group and family therapy as indicated in the individual treatment plans of Consumers, or as directed by the Clinical Team Leader.
• Provide a point of contact for Consumer's family and other community resources.
• Coordinate with school staff and the Consumer's teachers to insure follow up of the school programs.
• Develop programs in which all Consumers can participate, schedule off campus trips that will aid the Consumers in their emotional growth.
• Make the home a safe and fun place for all Consumers and staff.
• Actively engages in all pre-crisis and crisis interventions, seeking to establish a positive outcome.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Legacy Treatment Services Group seeks a Program Manager to supervise a residential treatment program in Burlington County, NJ. You will partner with the Clinical Team Leader to ensure a safe, strengths-based therapeutic milieu and effective budget and staff management.

The role oversees staff, scheduling, and program implementation, while coordinating with families, schools, and community resources to support consumers’ emotional growth and positive outcomes.