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Residential Support Counselor - Awake Overnight - Float Position

Job Code:12733

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.