Residential Support Counselor - Awake Overnight

Job Code:12668

Location:Belfast 04915

Department:Adult PNMI

FT/PT Status:Full Time

Summary:

$2,000 Sign-On Bonus!

Awake Overnight, with shift differential! 36-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

• Provides positive emotional support and supervision to residents.

• Maintains and submits accurate and timely documentation to meet contractual and licensing standards.

• 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.

• Salt walkways before day staff arrive in inclement weather.

• 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.

EDUCATION:

• High School Diploma or equivalency.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED:

• MHRT-1 certification upon hire or completion of certification within the one (1) year of employment.

• Valid state driver’s license.

EXPERIENCE:

• Experience working in the mental or behavioral health field preferred.