Skills Trainer Supervisor - Sagebrush Day Program

Job Description

Job Description

Join Trillium Family Services - Sagebrush Day Treatment - Bend, Oregon - Make a Difference in Young Lives and Families

Rate of pay: $28.00 - $29.00/hour depending on education and experience

Trillium Family Services is proud of our dedicated team, and we’re always looking for compassionate individuals eager to make a real difference in the lives of young people and their families. At Trillium, diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our positive workplace culture. We aim to cultivate a sense of belonging and growth for everyone.

Why Join Trillium? We are committed to developing our staff and providing extensive education, training, and mentorship opportunities to help each reach their fullest potential. You’ll take advantage of:

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligible
• Comprehensive employer-paid healthcare benefits for eligible employees
• Flexible positions with various shifts available from day to overnight
• 401k with 6% match
• Free meals
• Paid training and ongoing professional development
• Generous vacation and sick leave
• Strong internal promotion paths, with many staff advancing to supervisory roles, transitioning to new positions, or pursuing advanced degrees.
• Opportunities to further education and gain certifications.
• And more!

• To take a behind the scenes look our programs please visit our website at

Your Role:

• Mental Health Technician/Skills Trainer Supervisor
• Builds rapport with clients (children and adolescents), providing daily support, structure, activities, group, and safety.
• Provide skills training to clients to help them learn to manage their mental health symptoms.
• Models, coaches, and counsel's clients regarding appropriate hygiene, and social and interpersonal interactions.
• Provides supervision and training to assigned Day Treatment Skills Trainers with a focus on developing mastery of their essential duties, responsibilities, and competencies as well as ongoing professional development. Will provide individual and group supervision to all direct reports and maintain documentation of such as per regulatory requirements.
• Engages in positive and appropriate relationship-building with clients, their resources, and coworkers.
• Understands and participates in the treatment process (from assessment to discharge), including interdisciplinary communication, family engagement documentation, and relationship building.
• Demonstrates adherence to risk management procedures, protocols, policies, and interventions related to high-risk client behavior. Ensures subordinates can demonstrate understanding of risk management by verifying completion of required training, maintaining training compliance, and demonstrated observations which validate competencies in these areas.
• Facilitates and leads Crisis Management and Intervention. This includes modeling the Nonviolent Crisis Intervention principals of Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security while providing verbal and physical intervention as instructed in the course.
• Demonstrates the ability to facilitate and supervise the overall the classroom structure on a daily basis.
• Conducts oneself in a professional and respectful manner with clients, their resources and coworkers; as evidenced by actions, language, and attire.

About You:

TOP 3 MUST HAVES:

• Two (2 years) full years experiences as a direct care worker with at-risk children and/or adolescents is preferred.
• Supervisory experience
• Team Oriented attitude
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills conducive to an effective leader: including ability to provide positive customer service to community teams and families, work collaboratively with other programs on campus, and demonstrates ability to use creativity and problem-solving skills.
• Understand, lead, and participate in treatment process including interdisciplinary communication, engagement, documentation, and coordination of care responsibilities. Ability to administer medications to clients when needed, per policy.

PREFERENCE (but not a must)

• Bachelor’s degree in behavioral sciences or equivalent education/experience.

About Us:

We embrace diversity and equity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be in fulfilling our mission of “Building Brighter Futures with Children and Families”.

Our vision is to create safe communities where children are healthy, and every family has the opportunity for success. Families get the support they need – when and where they need it. There is a focus on prevention and health; organizations and systems are connected in a synergistic sanctuary community that generates: Non –violence, Growth and Change, Democracy, Emotional intelligence, social learning, Open communication, and Social Responsibility.

Our investment in the future of each child means that the next generation of Oregonians will have the skills to contribute meaningfully through employment, community service, and raising their own healthy families.

At TFS we believe that every child and family can have a brighter future, through the love we bring together we can make this possible. There is so much need for mental and emotional support at all levels of our communities.

Our DEI Vision and Mission

Our mission is to foster a company culture where diversity and inclusion is embedded in our core belief system. Our vision is to increase our fundamental awareness around inclusive best practices and execute plans to support an equitable environment. We will work to create an environment where every employee is considered and valued. We will resist hate, judgment, shame, and blame, focusing instead on difference, choice, compromise, and respect. We will adopt an understanding that DEI is a journey, not a destination. Through intentionality, we will meet others where they are and learn how to bring each other along.

Physical Demands: For physical demands of position, including vision, hearing, repetitive motion, and environment, contact the HR department. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position without compromising client care.

Application Details: Consideration of candidates will be on-going, and position may close without notice

If you need accommodation to review the information and/or complete the application process, please contact the Human Resources Department.

Trillium Family Services is a drug free workplace. All final applicants will be subject to a criminal record identification check pursuant to ORS 181.536.727.537 and agency policy. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and Service Provider and support a culturally linguistically diverse governance, leadership, and workforce.