About Us
Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love—and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.
Empowering Lives. Restoring Families .
Responsibilities
Position Summary:
Provide safe transportation to clients. Responsible for all facets of transportation, to and fromprogramming facilities to designated parking location. In addition, would provide client supervision for our clients and ensure their safety while building a rapport with them. This includes providing assistance to each client in working within a group and in handling individual problems; responsibility for setting of limits for behavior; creating documentation of the client’s progress; and identifying the possible need for professional services and communications of such findings to professional staff. Responsibilities include contributing to the care and upkeep of the environment of care.
Essential Duties:
1. Practice safe and legal vehicle practices at all times.
2. Provide transportation to clients from designated pick-up and drop off areas.
3. Respond promptly to transportation requests.
4. Provide transportation to residents for community outings and meetings in company vehicle
in a safe and legal manner.
5. Ensure vehicle is maintained and serviced.
6. Communicate vehicle maintenance needs in a timely manner.
7. Act as courier for mail or deliveries between program sites.
8. Assist in transporting or picking up client food.
9. Ensure client safety by using verbal de-escalation methods to redirect client behaviors and
prevent/respond to crisis. Use CPI techniques if client poses imminent physical danger to
themselves or others.
10. Practice compliance with all policies, record keeping requirements, checklist assignments,
assigned documentation, and any other assigned duties.
11. Remain current and up to date on all training and certifications required to maintain
employment with Newport Healthcare.
12. Provide support to assigned programs. Program assignment may change based on
operational need.
13. Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Required Education/Qualifications
14. High School Degree or GED required.
15. Valid driver’s license and eligibility for automobile insurance coverage with the company’s
vehicle.
16. Must have a clean driving record.
Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email