Assistant Residential Home Supervisor (Full-Time)
Wedgwood Christian Services
People & HR, Operations
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
USD 23-25 / hour
Posted on Nov 13, 2025
Assistant Home Supervisor - Zondervan (Full-Time)
As an Assistant Residential Home Supervisor, you’ll work closely with our Residential Home Supervisor and dedicated care team to ensure a safe, structured, and nurturing home environment for boys ages 14-18 living in our program. You’ll help oversee daily operations of the home, support staff in implementing individualized treatment plans, and step in as a mentor and role model for clients. By fostering consistency, accountability, and compassion, you’ll play a key role in helping youth heal and grow.
Compensation + Collaboration
We're offering $23-$25 per hour with a comprehensive benefits package. You’ll join a passionate, purposeful, and collaborative team who is committed to doing what it takes to give youth a brighter future.
Where healing begins.
Many of the teens who enter our program have never experienced a safe or supportive home. As an Assistant Residential Home Supervisor, you’ll help create that space. Working hand-in-hand with our clinical team, you’ll model trauma-informed care, guide staff through daily challenges, and support residents in developing emotional regulation, healthy boundaries, and life skills. Your leadership helps set the tone for the home—building trust, stability, and hope. By showing up with empathy and consistency, you’ll make a lasting impact on the lives of our youth.
Hours: Full-Time (40 hours): 4 weekdays and every other weekend, a combination of 1st and 2nd shift
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership in the training and professional development of Youth Treatment Specialists; assures all Youth Treatment Specialists receive proper and complete training and exhibit confidence in their skills and knowledge of treatment programming.
- In cooperation with the Learning Institute, Clinicians and the Home Supervisor, assure that all new staff have a minimum of sixteen (16) hours of home orientation, using a combination of shadow shifts, apprentice shifts, online training, and 1:1 communication.
- Observe the skills of Youth Treatment Specialists, provide teaching, feedback and support as needed, and model professional treatment techniques while working on the residential unit.
- Oversee the ongoing training of the Youth Treatment Specialists; monitors and follows through with staff that have become delinquent in meeting training requirements as assigned.
- In collaboration with program leadership, plan and implement trainings to address on-going training needs for staff. Provide support in developing training curriculum and leading trainings in collaboration with the Learning Institute.
- Provide leadership in promoting a therapeutic milieu, an environment marked by caring acceptance, with an appropriate Christian emphasis.
- Participate in the development of therapeutic programming aimed at teaching clients positive behavior.
- Understand the treatment needs and the program goals of individual clients, and explain the same to other staff members as appropriate.
- Assist Wedgwood Institute in providing training sessions and workshops to direct care staff.
- Assist in the completion of other administrative responsibilities, including:
- Interview and screen applicants to fill open positions
- Provide on-call availability to fill open shifts and resolve other staffing problems, on a rotating basis.
- Regular participation in supervision meetings and team meetings for the sharing of ideas, feedback and department planning.
Qualifications:
- Applicant must be at least 20 years of age
- High school diploma required
- Must have a valid driver’s license
- At least one year of residential treatment experience required.
- Knowledge and experience in working with adult learners preferred, and at least one year teaching/training experience required.
- Computer skills working with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint preferred.
- Additional education and/or certification in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or a related field preferred.
- Prior experience supervising at risk youth is preferred
- Ability to pivot, bend, twist and stoop while bearing weight of individuals served.
- Ability to lift 50 lbs. non-stationary weight through the approved technique is required.
- Subscription to the Statement of Faith of Wedgwood Christian Services and agreement with the goal, purpose, and objective of the agency.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee training progression of Youth Treatment Specialists in the residential program.
- Oversees goal worker training within the program.
- Assists with scheduling in the home.
- Providing daily care, counsel, and supervision to youth in the residential program.
- Assisting in overseeing the treatments programs of individual residents and managing operations of the residential unit.
- Participation in recreational activities when they are scheduled.
- Meal preparation in the residential home.
Benefits:
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer match
- Medical Plans with great coverage options
- Free supplemental virtual PCP care with medical plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
- Dental and Vision plans
- Pet insurance
- Legal insurance
- A Locally Partnered Employee Assistance Program
- Competitive paid time off
- Direct deposit
- Federal Student Loan Forgiveness through PSLF
- Paid Holidays
- We also offer a variety of employer paid benefits for full time staff
- Short term disability
- Long term disability
- Life insurance up to 2x your annual salary
- No-cost, employer paid training and re-certification provided to staff
- Wedgwood has full gymnasium and state-of-the art 24-hour wellness center filled with a wide variety of workout equipment, available to staff at no cost.
- Walking trail that leads around the beautiful campus.
- Through community partnerships, Wedgwood employees and in some cases family members, are eligible for application and tuition fee discounts for several local colleges and universities.
Wedgwood Christian Services
Since 1960, Wedgwood Christian Services has been dedicated to aggressively taking on the toughest problems facing children and families through residential care, counseling services, and community programs. Our goal is to support and help restore the physical, social, intellectual, emotional and spiritual well-being of children, adults, and families in our community.
Mission: Wedgwood Christian Services extends God's love to youth, adults, and families through professional counseling and educational services.
Core Values: Integrity, Compassion, Excellence, and Diversity
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