YBGR, WHERE YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
We have employees providing services to youth throughout Montana, working to change the trajectory of children's lives and having a positive impact.
We are a family of YBGR staff providing services to youth throughout Montana, working to change the trajectory of children’s lives –
to help them heal and recover!Company:
Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch
Industry:
Mental Health Care
Level:
Full Time
Location:
Billings Campus - Billings, MT 59106
Compensation:
$47,040.48 - $52,944.48 Salary
OVERVIEW
Position Summary
At Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch (YBGR), the Program Supervisor for the Therapeutic Group Home (TGH) program is a leader, mentor, and advocate—guiding teams that create stability, healing, and growth for youth with complex needs. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on collaboration, ensuring therapeutic services are delivered with consistency, compassion, and excellence.
Position Details
As the Program Supervisor, you’ll lead and support TGH Managers and their teams in building safe, structured, and nurturing environments where youth can develop resilience, strengthen relationships, and reach meaningful treatment goals. Working closely with multidisciplinary partners, you will drive program quality, staff development, and operational success while advancing YBGR’s mission of empowering youth and families to thrive.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Performance
Conducts staff evaluations, job performance management (including coaching/counseling), and corrective action. Monitor staff performance, provide feedback and guidance to Therapeutic Group Home Managers, ensuring that all staff members are professionally trained and certified and that the milieu program follows YBGR policies and is consistent with YBGR treatment philosophy. Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with the families and collaterals of the residents.
Quality Assurance
Ensure youth in assigned group homes are properly funded by monitoring funding sources and eligibility, and by ensuring all required documentation is submitted to obtain and maintain funding. Ensure a safe environment for youth that allows for quality care to achieve their treatment goals.
Management
Demonstrates effective management of a team toward achievement of goals, including appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems. Provide leadership for assigned group homes to include programming needs, quality treatment, and budget compliance. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Schedule and conduct regular staff meetings.
Administration
Responsible for various administrative areas involving but not limited to scheduling, supervision, budgetary and fiscal matters, and other areas assigned.
Training
Responsible for ensuring appropriate staff training and education programs are provided.
REQUIREMENTS
Values
Faith - is being sure of successfully achieving our mission, based upon our trust in a loving creator. Integrity - doing what is right, putting the needs of others above your own, and living by the highest values. Relationship - being committed to one another in a mutually respectful, dignified, healthy, and honoring manner. Stewardship is the use of any resource or talent entrusted to YBGR to fulfill the mission and values.
Qualifications
21 years old or older. Criminal / Child Abuse Clearance: Must pass criminal record and child abuse registry background check as required by the State of Montana. Bachelor’s degree in social work or a comparable human service field and four or more years of relevant experience. Willingness and ability to obtain certification in First Aid/CPR and Violence Intervention Prevention.
Communication
The ability to effectively interact and communicate with others. The person in this position will constantly communicate with clients, their treatment team, and others. Must be able to communicate accurate information and accurately understand information communicated by those individuals.
Skills
Demonstrated professional skills in crisis intervention and de-escalation. Demonstrated professional skills in leadership and staff development. Use of computer and able to quickly learn and use YBGR selected software solutions. Demonstrate being self-motivated, self-disciplined, and diligent with forward thinking.
Work Environment
Demonstrated ability to work with culturally diverse individuals and build rapport with those individuals. Consistently needs to move about inside building, outside to include uneven terrain, changes in elevation, and frequently change body position from and to standing, kneeling, sitting, and prone.
Education & Experience
An advanced degree in social work or a comparable human service field and two years of relevant experience; or Bachelor’s degree in social work or a comparable human service field and four or more years of relevant experience. If an internal candidate does not meet the above requirements but has demonstrated competency and potential ability to complete the duties of the position through their work experience with YBGR, they may be considered for the position based on staffing needs.
ABOUT US
Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch, a nonprofit organization, is trusted locally and nationally as a leader in the field of mental health care for children and their families.
Each day, YBGR’s employees work with close to 1200 youth throughout Montana who struggle with controlling emotions and behaviors. YBGR has impacted more than 10,000 youth and their families since 1957 through Residential Services in Billings, Community Based Services throughout Montana, and the Yellowstone Academy in Billings.
The principles encompassed by Yellowstone’s Mission Statement and Values lie at the heart of Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch.
These principles relate to and help maintain the moral integrity of our work. Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch directs all its activities, programs, its hiring practices, and develops its goals around these principles.
For more information:
www.ybgr.org
