Residential Program Director

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Full Time 12 Month Senior Management Bremo Bluff, VA, US

Salary Range: $63,000.00 To $75,000.00 Annually

Would you like to work for a non-profit organization where your contributions make a major impact on the lives of the children and families that we serve?
Join a family of experienced mental health professionals and counselors dedicated to providing kids, and each other, the kindness, respect, and encouragement they need to succeed.

Elk Hill was honored as a 2026 Richmond Times-Dispatch Top Workplace.These awards are based solely on employee feedback and recognize the great culture that exists at every level of the organization.

If you want to work for a Richmond Times-Dispatch Top Workplace organization where your decisions can impact youth and families of Central Virginia, then Elk Hill Farm, Inc. is the place for you!

We are an organization that:

• Is honored as a 2026 Richmond Times-Dispatch Top Workplace
• Is a Top Workplace Meaningfulness Award recipient
• Has talented, hardworking employees
• Advocates for mental health issues
• Offers competitive benefits, pay, and pet insurance for full-time staff
• Provides a generous time-off and holiday package
• Offers a 401(k) plan with a 5% employer match for full-time staff
• Elk Hill is celebrating 50+ years of supporting youth and families across the Commonwealth of Virginia! Stability. Adaptability. Longevity.

Primary Function:

Under the direction and guidance of the Residential Director, create and maintain an environment that will enable youth to develop and sustain positive changes in attitude, values, and behavior while ensuring program and fiscal integrity.

Responsibilities and Job Expectations:

• Provide youth and staff with positive role-modeling of Elk Hill’s core values--respect, personal responsibility, hard-work, lifelong learning, and courage
• Build and maintain positive, nurturing relationships with all youth and their families
• Advocate the rights of youth
• Work towards annual goals for personal, professional and educational development
• Work cooperatively with staff and treatment team to improve the quality of the facility’s total program
• Promote an atmosphere of openness, honesty, and understanding among residents, Elk Hill staff, and other persons associated with Elk Hill
• Must have a valid certificate in an approved medication aide training class
• Maintain a valid driver’s license and good standing with Elk Hill’s auto-insurance policies
• Maintain up-to-date certifications in CPR/First Aid, and the facility’s Behavioral Management Program and have the ability to apply such skills as needed and required in the day-to-day interactions with youth
• Demonstrate a high level of on-going competence in leadership, supervision strategies, behavioral and clinical programming, care-coordination, and service planning as well as motivation and commitment as an Elk Hill employee
• Remain current in national and state trends in residential programming including best-practices, evidence-based outcomes, and public policies that affect residential placements
• In alignment with Elk Hill’s model of residential programming, develop, coordinate, implement, and/or oversee that services address needs-assessments, service planning needs, staff scheduling, and supervision
• Responsible for the facility and its overall maintenance and upkeep including annual fire marshal and sanitation inspections and where applicable, annual well/water testing.
• From time to time, may be assigned to work in a group home other than the regularly assigned group home.
• Participate in appropriate and ongoing supervision and staff…