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Cornerstones of Care
Kansas City, Missouri

Manager Youth Behavioral Health Specialist

Healthcare AdminIncludes callIncludes weekendsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$49,504

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Posted 5mo ago

Job Description

  • Job Location: Ozanam Campus - KANSAS CITY, MO 64145
  • Position Type: Full Time
  • Salary Range: $49,504.00 - $49,504.00 Salary/yearWe are seeking a Manager Youth Behavioral Health Specialist to join our team.

Salary: $49,504.00

  • Schedule: Sunday - Thursday, 11:00 pm - 7:00 am This role observes interactions and provides daily supervision to staff and clients, ensuring the team members are following routines, policies, and treatment plans

Provides support to team members and clients with the goal of maintaining a safe therapeutic environment. This role will have direct reports and reports to the Program Manager.

What You Will Do

Maintain emotional and physical safety and crisis management for the client. Observe interactions and provide daily supervision of the Youth Behavioral Health Specialists. Ensure team members are following routines, policies, and treatment plans. Oversee the planning and coordination of the milieu program.

Provide coaching, training, and performance management to assigned team members per department and agency standards. Ensure that all team members complete and submit the proper documentation as required per agency policy. Provide customer service to client guardians and support workers.

Serve as a liaison between the cottage/dorm/unit and parents/guardians of the clients. May oversee the administration of client medications. Determine appropriate social activities for clients.

What You Will Bring

Our ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of experience working with children and the following: High school diploma, required. Bachelor's degree in social services, child development, or criminal justice, preferred. At least 21 years of age and pass background check, physical, and drug screening A valid driver’s license in the state you reside in, proof of current vehicle insurance, and reliable transportation.

Who We Are

Cornerstones of Care is a mental and behavioral health nonprofit certified in trauma-informed care that provides evidence-based prevention, intervention, treatment, and support services to help children and families improve their safety and health by making positive changes in their lives.

Each year, our team empowers children and families in Kansas, Missouri, and beyond through three key service areas: Youth & Family Support – We help youth gain independence through social and living support programs while empowering families with the skills and resources they need to become resilient and successful.

Foster Care & Adoption – We reunify and unite families while recruiting and providing support to foster parents and youth in foster care.

Education & Community Trainings – We help students achieve academic success while giving educators the tools to create safe learning environments to improve their students’ behaviors and offer innovative learning opportunities to build and improve knowledge in the community.

CORNERSTONES OF CARE’S ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS: Nonviolence - helping to build safety skills and a commitment to a higher purpose. Emotional Intelligence - helping to teach emotional management skills. Social Learning - helping to build cognitive skills.

Open Communication - helping to overcome barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management. Democracy - helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority.

Social Responsibility - helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships. Growth and Change - helping to work through loss and prepare for the future.

Our Wide Statement

At Cornerstones of Care, we commit to fostering a community where every individual, regardless of background or identity, feels deeply welcomed, valued, and empowered. We envision a diverse community where inclusion and welcoming are prioritized. A community where all voices are heard, listened to, and respected.

A community where everyone’s physical, emotional, social, and psychological needs are met. At Cornerstones of Care, we have a vision where equity is not just a goal but is present in all we do; every team member feels empowered to authentically contribute to their fullest potential.

We hold a collective commitment to WIDE (welcoming, inclusion, diversity, and equity) that will drive us forward as a stronger organization.

Our Diversity Statement

We partner for safe and healthy communities. We cultivate a culture in which children, families, team members, volunteers, donors, and community partners feel welcomed, safe, respected, empowered, and celebrated.

We value diversity of race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin or citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, geographical location, pregnancy, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic, and military status. We stand for anti-racism, equity, and inclusivity.

We insist and affirm that discrimination and violence have no place in safe and healthy communities, including in our organization. We strive toward a more welcoming, inclusive, diverse, and equitable organization through our policies, partnerships, and practices.

Our Benefits

Cornerstones of Care offers a competitive benefits package, which includes: 9 Paid Holidays, Unlimited Paid Time Off, and Paid Sick Leave Team members who work at least 30 hours per week are eligible for Health insurance benefits (medical, prescription, dental, vision) Cafeteria plans (Health Savings Account (HSA) and Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts) Ancillary insurance benefits (accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term disability insurance, voluntary life) Cornerstones of Care provides long-term disability insurance and basic term life/AD&D insurance at no cost to the team member Retirement savings plan (401K) with employer match Pet Insurance Employee assistance program (EAP) Tuition reimbursement program Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

To view more information on our benefits, please visit our Job Openings page at Join Our Team - Cornerstones of Care to download the current benefits guide. Questions?

Please contact: Cornerstones of Care, People Experience Team 8150 Wornall Rd., Kansas City, MO 64114 Phone: (816) 508-3500 Fax: (816) 508-1757 Like us on Facebook at: facebook.com Cornerstones of Care is an

Equal Opportunity Employer

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

Supervise Youth Behavioral Health Specialists to ensure adherence to routines, policies, and treatment plans while maintaining a safe therapeutic environment. Coordinate the milieu program and provide coaching and performance management to direct reports.

Requirements

Requires a high school diploma and 3-5 years of experience working with children, with a bachelor's degree in social services or related fields preferred. Candidates must be at least 21 years old with a valid driver's license and pass background and drug screenings.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Staff SupervisionTreatment PlanningMedication AdministrationMilieu Program Coordination

Healthcare Administration Career Context

Of the 40 active Healthcare Administration listings this role was benchmarked against, 23% are remote, 30% have no call, 60% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$50k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $55k in an average-cost state. 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the Healthcare Administration market look like in Missouri?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed pay$50kHealthcare Administration median $83k (middle half $70k–$114k)30 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$55k in purchasing powerMissouri index 90.8 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Healthcare Administration listings in Missouri6 active1,268 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 23% remote · 30% no call · 60% no weekends40 benchmarked listings
Healthcare Administration pay trend−6.0% vs prior quarter—through Sep 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Work-life snapshot

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  • Includes weekends
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About Cornerstones of Care

Individual and Family Services
Kansas City, Missouri
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

9 Paid Holidays
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Paid Sick Leave
Health Insurance (medical, prescription, dental, vision)
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
Ancillary insurance (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, short-term disability, voluntary life)
Long-term disability insurance

Living in Kansas City

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$251k≈ 5.1× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,428/mo≈ 35% of gross pay
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
92.5
State income tax
Up to 5.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026).

BEA 2024 · Kansas City, MO-KS metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.