at Sweetser in Belfast 04915, United States
Job Description
Residential Support Counselor – Awake Overnight – Float Position
Job Code:12733
Location:Belfast 04915
Department:Adult PNMI
FT/PT Status:Full Time
Summary:
Awake Overnight, with shift differential! 40-Hour Schedule!
Residential Support Counselors support individuals with mental illness within the framework of recovery and resiliency providing a positive environment which fosters the development of independent living skills, while monitoring and role modeling health and safety.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Resident Care
+ Maintains and submits accurate and timely documentation to meet contractual and licensing standards.
+ Provides positive emotional support and supervision to residents.
+ Ensures individual treatment plan is implemented and clearly documents progress toward goals.
+ Encourages and supports the resident’s efforts to maintain their health status through hygiene, diet, exercise, rest, and utilization of coping strategies.
+ Engages in team meetings relative to the resident’s plan of care and response to treatment.
+ Provides crisis and emergency behavior management.
+ Assists individuals to reach their goals/skills for independent living.
+ Supports independent client functioning that leads to increased skills upon discharge.
Medications
+ Facilitates administration of medications and complete required documentation.
+ Check medications nightly and order through guardian hub any medications that are low.
+ Organize/verify Medication orders. Keep medication areas neat and all paperwork properly filed/uploaded in medical record.
+ Complete a pass down to daytime CRMA prior to leaving shift.
Coverage Duties
+ Provide Break Coverage to each overnight staff.
+ Cover staff needing to leave early after arriving to work and unplanned callouts.
+ Rotate between buildings and help overnights with general duties, and ensure all overnights are awake/alert.
+ Provide overnight transportation as needed. Provide additional support to buildings with particularly acute residents.
+ Salt walkways before day staff arrive in inclement weather.
EDUCATION:
+ High School Diploma or equivalency.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED:
+ MHRT-1 certification upon hire or completion of certification within 60 days of employment.
+ Valid state driver’s license.
EXPERIENCE & JOB REQUIREMENTS:
+ Experience working in the mental or behavioral health field preferred.
+ Must be able to speak, read and write English fluently.
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