Driver - Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facility
Center Point, Inc
- Fair Oaks, California
- 14 days ago
Highlights
The Driver provides safe, reliable, and timely transportation for adult residents to medical appointments, behavioral health services, social services, and other approved activities. The position also involves coordinating transportation schedules with program staff, conducting routine vehicle inspections, and overseeing preventive maintenance for agency vehicles.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Fair Oaks, California |
| Industry | Nonprofit Charitable Organizations |
| Salary | $23–$26 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.cpinc.org |
Description
Center Point, Inc., a nonprofit social services and behavioral health treatment provider, is seeking a dependable and professional Driver for its residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment facility in Fair Oaks, California.
The Driver provides safe, reliable, and timely transportation for adult residents to medical appointments, behavioral health services, social services, and other approved activities. The position also involves coordinating transportation schedules with program staff, conducting routine vehicle inspections, and overseeing preventive maintenance for agency vehicles.
The ideal candidate is organized, safety-conscious, and comfortable working with individuals receiving substance use disorder treatment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Transportation and Resident Services:
- Safely transport residents to and from medical, behavioral health, social service, and other approved appointments.
- Collaborate with program staff to develop and maintain daily and weekly transportation schedules.
- Coordinate appointment times, transportation priorities, and scheduling changes with staff.
- Maintain accurate transportation logs, including mileage, destinations, and required documentation.
- Communicate professionally and respectfully with residents, staff, healthcare providers, and community partners.
- Demonstrate patience, empathy, and professionalism while maintaining appropriate boundaries with residents.
- Maintain resident confidentiality and promptly report transportation incidents, safety concerns, or behavioral issues to management.
Vehicle Inspections and Maintenance:
- Conduct and document daily, weekly, and monthly physical inspections of agency vehicles.
- Perform routine safety checks, including tires, lights, brakes, fluid levels, windshield wipers, and other essential components.
- Monitor vehicle mileage and preventive maintenance requirements.
- Develop, oversee, and maintain vehicle maintenance schedules, including routine service, inspections, and repairs.
- Coordinate maintenance appointments with approved service providers.
- Maintain accurate vehicle inspection logs, maintenance records, and service documentation.
- Identify and promptly report mechanical problems, vehicle damage, and unsafe operating conditions.
- Ensure agency vehicles remain clean, safe, and properly maintained.
Administrative and Operational Support:
- Work collaboratively with program staff to coordinate transportation for appointments, admissions, discharges, and other program needs.
- Adjust transportation schedules to accommodate changing program priorities.
- Complete required documentation accurately and on time.
- Perform other transportation-related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Valid California driver's license required.
- Must have zero (0) major moving violations within the past four (4) years, including DUI, reckless driving, driving with a suspended or revoked license, hit-and-run, or other serious traffic offenses.
- Must be eligible for coverage under Center Point's automobile insurance policy and maintain eligibility throughout employment.
- Driving record must meet organizational and insurance carrier requirements.
- Minimum of two years of driving experience preferred.
- Knowledge of routine vehicle maintenance and basic automotive safety inspections.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent organizational, scheduling, and time-management abilities.
- Dependable, punctual, and capable of working independently.
- Ability to obtain and maintain required background clearances.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience transporting clients in healthcare, behavioral health, substance use disorder treatment, or social services settings.
- Experience coordinating transportation schedules and maintaining vehicle inspection and maintenance records.
- Familiarity with Sacramento County and surrounding communities.
- Understanding of confidentiality requirements and professional boundaries when working with vulnerable populations.
Benefits/Perks:
- Highly competitive compensation.
- Medical, Dental, Vision.
- 17 days off (PTO/Sick time), increasing with tenure. Paid holidays.
- 401K with matching contribution & Life insurance program.
Pay Frequency: Twice monthly.
About Company
About Us
We Believe
Center Point’s programs promote increased stability, self-reliance, personal productivity and social responsibility. Center Point believes that individuals, families and communities can flourish when the cycles of poverty, illiteracy, abuse, neglect, unemployment, homelessness and crime are interrupted by specialized and effective rehabilitation services.
Our Mission
Center Point’s mission is to provide comprehensive social, educational, vocational, medical, psychological, housing and rehabilitation services to combat social problems such as substance abuse, poverty, unemployment and homelessness.
Center Point offers rehabilitation and treatment services that interrupt the abusive cycles of psychological, social and economic dislocation by providing critical training and support so that individuals and families can claim self-worth and dignity.
Agency Goals
- To provide a range of cognitive, behavioral and psychosocial skills training aimed at enhancing personal, moral and social responsibility;
- To develop educational, vocational and interpersonal skills to promote personal and social productivity;
- To create value-based opportunities which maximize successful pro-social community integration;
- To improve the quality of life.
THE ORGANIZATION – WHO WE ARE
For more than fifty years Center Point has provided the foundation for change for many families and individuals by assisting them to become responsible members of our communities and we have established a reputation as a leader in the field! Center Point's services facilitate the process of rehabilitation by helping individuals reclaim self-worth and dignity. Typical clients include veterans, the homeless, incarcerated individuals, ex-offenders who need services, and individuals with mental health and/or substance abuse problems. Equipped with new skills for living and working, and assisted with employment and housing, Center Point program graduates return to their communities ready to assume responsibility for themselves and others. Click HERE to learn more about our history, or go to http://www.cpinc.org.
Center Point, Inc. has expanded over the years to become one of the nation's leading health and social services agency with programs in California and is a large contract service provider for many correctional institutions and multiple counties therein. Today, Center Point serves more than 4,000 men and women each year providing comprehensive, evidence-based services for homeless individuals, veterans, substance users, women with children, families, adolescents, those who are unemployed and those involved with the criminal justice system.