What are the responsibilities and job description for the Wellness Manager (Closes 5/3/2025) position at Allegheny County Department of Human Services?
We are seeking a Wellness Manager for our Office of Children, Youth and Families (CYF) within Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS). CYF protects children, 18 years of age and younger, from abuse and neglect and works with families to provide a safe and loving permanent home for children.
The Wellness Manager will design, implement, and sustain strategic, trauma-informed initiatives that foster staff well-being, resilience, and engagement within the child welfare system. This role will apply a multi-system approach to assess staff wellness needs, develop responsive wellness strategies, and implement evidence-based interventions that address secondary traumatic stress (STS), burnout, and compassion fatigue. The Wellness Manager will coordinate wellness activities, provide targeted training, recruit and support wellness champions, and serve as a key resource for staff experiencing workplace stress related to direct and indirect exposure to trauma.
Additionally, the Wellness Manager will provide supervision and support to the Wellness Coordinator, ensuring alignment with agency wellness goals, facilitating professional development, and guiding the implementation of wellness initiatives.
The Wellness Manager will be responsible for leading initiatives that integrate child welfare-specific health and wellness programs, ensuring a culture of psychological safety, resilience, and healing-centered engagement. This includes embedding secondary trauma prevention frameworks within the agency, supporting supervisors with tools to mitigate vicarious trauma, and advocating for systemic changes that promote workforce well-being.
Key responsibilities include:
- Establishing a trauma-responsive workplace culture, ensuring all wellness initiatives align with best practices in stress reduction and emotional well-being.
- Implementing and facilitating Vitality Cafés as supportive spaces for staff to process work-related stress in a psychologically safe environment.
- Training Casework Supervisors in the Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT) model to strengthen resilience and retention.
- Developing policies and wellness initiatives that reduce systemic barriers to staff well-being and promote organizational transformation in alignment with Allegheny County Children, Youth, and Families’ (CYF) strategic priorities.
- Engaging in cross-system collaboration with human resources and leadership to create sustainable workforce well-being solutions.
By prioritizing a trauma-informed, multi-system level approach, the Wellness Manager will play a critical role in transforming workplace culture, strengthening workforce resilience, and ensuring the emotional and psychological well-being of staff serving vulnerable children, youth, and families.
Education/Experience Requirements
Master’s or higher degree (or equivalent) in social work, health promotion, public health, or related field
required.
- OR 3 years of experience working in related health promotion or trauma prevention positions.
- OR3 years of experience developing, marketing, teaching, and evaluating employee health and wellness programs.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
Act 33, 34 and FBI clearances.
- AND Valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle
Why Allegheny County DHS?
- You can make a big impact here. We stand out as one of the best human services organizations in the country. But we need problem-solvers, innovators, and terrific leaders to make sure we are smart in how we use our funding so that we reach the people who most need our help to make their lives better.
“DHS strives to be the kind of place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come to grow and do their best work.”
- From the organization’s statement on Equity and Inclusion
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