Director, Behavioral Health Technicians

Foothills at Red Oak Recovery provides an enriching and experiential program that helps young people improve their lives. Using a holistic approach, our team supports clients on their path to self-love, self-acceptance, and self-awareness. We are seeking a Program Director to support and guide our direct care team and help to grow our program to continue providing excellent care to the clients and families we serve.

Located on a 94-acre working horse farm in Ellenboro, NC, Foothills at Red Oak Recovery is a residential treatment program that serves 14-year-old to 17-year-old male adolescents and their families. Foothills is a relationally founded program that uses experiential and adventure-based programming to facilitate healing experiences and provide opportunities of growth for our clients and families. If you enjoy working with adolescents, being outdoors, using creativity in your therapeutic practice, and being part of a team that is passionate, talented, and energizing then this is the job for you!

The Behavioral Health Technicians Director is a member of the senior leadership team and is responsible for ensuring the quality of our direct care team through staffing, training, supervision, and mentoring. The BHT Director works with the Clinical and Executive Directors to ensure effective planning, coordination and delivery of evidence based and impactful programming to our clients.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the recruitment and hiring of all direct care staff
• Provide supervision to direct care staff (training, scheduling, reviews, disciplinary action, etc.)
• Provide supervision to Program Coordinator and shift supervisors (training, scheduling, reviews, disciplinary action, etc.)
• Oversee the training and development of direct care staff
• Ensure direct care staffing needs are met, maintain appropriate ratios and remaining within projected budget
• Oversee all aspects of program scheduling to ensure programming is relevant to client needs, is manageable, progressive and adaptive
• Ensure adventure programming is relevant and responsive to client and programmatic needs
• Complete bi-weekly timecard submission and approval of all direct care staff
• Ensure proper orientation process for clients
• Facilitate weekly community meetings for all clients
• Manage and oversee client milieu
• Works with treatment team to ensure the highest standard of programming is made available
• Facilitate psycho-educational and experiential groups as indicated
• Serve in the role of Primary Responder as scheduled

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of four years’ experience in the field of substance abuse or a related human services field
• Minimum of three years supervisory experience
• Experience in adolescent mental health and substance abuse

Preferred Qualifications:

• Licensed or provisionally licensed in mental health and substance abuse
• Master’s degree in a human services field

Employee Benefits:

• Medical Insurance with Telemedicine options available to full-time employees after 30 days
• Vision & Dental insurance available to full-time employees after 30 days
• Retirement 401k
• Voluntary Accident Coverage and Critical Illness Coverage options
• Employee provided Life Insurance and Voluntary Life Insurance options
• Employee Assistance Program provided to promote employee wellness and a variety of services
• PTO & SICK plan
• Company paid professional development and training
• Employee discounts through local retailers

Red Oak Recovery does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor. In addition to federal law requirements, Red Oak Recovery complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.