Mental Health Worker-Group Home Relief

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Help maintain a clean, safe, welcoming, and home-like environment.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• High School Diploma Required
• First Aid/CPR certification
• Violence Intervention Prevention certification

Qualifications

• 21 years old or older
• Must pass criminal record and child abuse registry background check as required by the State of Montana.
• Ability to empathize with the struggles and emotions of youth experiencing mental health challenges, and to provide compassionate care.
• Ability to communicate effectively with youth, their families, and other members of the treatment team.
• 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.
• 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.
• The ability to effectively interact and communicate with others.
• Demonstrated values:
• Faith
• Integrity
• Relationship
• Stewardship
• Willingness to learn and maintain appropriate boundaries while continuing to build relationships.
• Ability to remain calm and think clearly during challenging situations.
• Ability to build relationships without taking difficult behavior personally.
• Ability to balance empathy with healthy boundaries and accountability.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a team.
• Ability to accept feedback and continue developing skills.
• Ability to recognize that progress with youth is rarely a straight line.
• Ability to find value in both the big breakthroughs and the small everyday successes.