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Residential Support Counselor - Awake Overnight
Job Code:12667
Location:Belfast 04915
Department:Adult PNMI
FT/PT Status:Full Time
  
Summary:
$2,000 Sign-On Bonus!

Awake Overnight, with shift differential! 

 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.