L'Arche Atlanta is hiring a Home Life Leader for our Clairemont Ave. home!

As a Home Life Leader at L’Arche Atlanta, you will principally be responsible for quality of life and sense of belonging in one of our homes. You will lead a team of Direct Support Professionals (what we call internally “Assistants”) to both foster community life and deliver quality residential support services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  You will also be responsible for creating a safe and trusting home environment.  This is at the heart of L’Arche Atlanta community life.

L’Arche Atlanta opened its first home in Decatur in 2012 and its second in 2022.  L’Arche Atlanta homes are made up of people with and without disabilities who live, work, pray/reflect, and celebrate together. Those who share in daily home life include:
  • 4 persons with intellectual disabilities 
  • Between 5 and 8 Assistants (Direct Support Professionals) 
  • A Care Coordinator who works alongside the Home Life Leader to coordinate healthcare

Location: L’Arche Atlanta currently operates two homes. This position is within the home at 915 Clairemont Ave. This position also completes work at our administrative office at 500 S. Columbia Dr., with occasional work in the community and at home.

This is a 40-hour a week, salaried position.

Responsibilities for Shared Community Life:
  • Sharing life in a community of people with and without intellectual disabilities and facilitating the co-creation of a community life grounded in the values in the Charter of L’Arche and shaped by core members and staff alike.
  • Overseeing the scheduling and management of the home
  • Supervising and coaching between five and eight live-in and live-out Direct Support Professionals (L’Arche calls this staff position “House Assistants”)
  • Training new Assistant hires
  • Auditing documentation
  • Acting as a primary liaison to the Core Members’ family members
  • Acting as a primary liaison to Core Members’ assigned Support Coordinators, and natural supports
  • Providing support to individuals with intellectual disabilities, accompanying Core Members in seeking dignity, growth, and fulfillment, and ensuring they are involved in decisions concerning them
  • Support with scheduling Core Member activities, coordinating transportation, and initiating time out in the community
  • Nurturing the common spiritual life of the home and the overall culture of community building. L’Arche’s spirituality is inclusive.
  • ​​Practicing L’Arche hospitality to families and friends of community members and to people who support L’Arche

Required Skills & Qualifications:
  • Full COVID-19 vaccination with booster vaccines if eligible
  • ​18 years of age or older
  • Eligible to work in the United States
  • ​Bachelor required, Masters preferred
  • Fluent enough in English to read, understand, and implement health care plans and respond appropriately in emergency situations
  • ​Able to pass a background check (no prior history of crimes against other people, financial exploitations, or crimes related to the manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance)
  • A current/valid driver’s license 
  • ​Have a clean motor vehicle report (no DUIs, hit-and-runs, or super-speeder tickets)
  • Able to pass a pre-employment drug screening
  • ​Willing to become certified in First-Aid/CPR and in crisis de-escalation technique
  • Minimum one year of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities is preferred.Willingness to commit to L’Arche Atlanta for at least two years is preferred. 
  • ​​Basic or higher proficiency in American Sign Language (ASL) is preferred.

Apply at this link today!