Training & Development Specialist

There is a place for you at Highland Rivers Behavioral Health!

Highland Rivers provides treatment and recovery services to individuals impacted by mental illness; substance use disorders and intellectual developmental disabilities.

Are you ready to make a Difference?

JOB SUMMARY: The Training and Development Specialist helps create, coordinate, and deliver training programs for agency staff. The Training and Development Specialist is responsible for coordination of staff training, internal and external.

Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Expedite New Hire Orientation
• Ensures individual staff training plans are completed.
• Monitors required staff development training quarterly for compliance.
• Maintains accurate and timely training data in Relias and Kronos systems.
• Maintains records of training and development activities, attendance, results of tests and assessments and retraining requirements.
• Plan, organize and implement a range of training activities.
• Coordinates delivery of all in-house courses i.e. CPR, BLS, and Defensive Driving and other departmental trainings.
• Maintains training calendar.
• Ensures training compliance with all regulatory and accrediting organizations.
• Collaborates with internal and external trainers or instructors.
• Maintains training inventory, i.e. manuals, equipment and course materials.
• Instructs various courses, i.e. CPR, Mindset/CPI, Defensive Driving, etc., on a regular basis.
• Participate in assigned committees along with any other HR activities as directed.

Benefits:

• Health Insurance through the State Health Benefit Plan of GA
• Flexible Benefits such as dental, vision, life, critical illness, etc.
• Retirement Plan with employer matching
• 4 weeks of Paid Time Off with increase of accruals based on years of service
• 10 paid holidays
• 1 personal day
• Qualifying employer for Public Student Loan Forgiveness
• NHSC loan forgiveness in qualifying counties.
• Clinical supervision for candidates on a licensure track.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education – High School Diploma or equivalent
• Licensure/Certification – N/A
• Experience – At least one (2) years of training experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor Degree in Human Resources, Business Management or Business-related studies.
• Licensure/Certification – N/A
• Experience – Two or more years of training experience.
• Bilingual abilities a plus

Highland Rivers Behavioral Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of color, race, national origin, age sex, religion, or disability.

Selected applicants must pass a pre-employment background investigation and a pre-employment drug screen. Employment is contingent upon passing the background and the drug screen.