What are the responsibilities and job description for the Overnight Counselor position at Concern Housing?
Concern Housing offers a generous benefit package which includes; Medical Insurance (Agency pays 80% of the premium), Affordable Voluntary Dental and Vision Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Agency Sponsored Retirement Plan, Employee Sponsored 403(b) Retirement Plan, Agency Sponsored Life Insurance Coverage and an Excellent Paid Time Off Package. Concern encourages employee growth, offering Educational Assistance and Scholarship Programs, Licensure Reimbursement and Possible Internship/Clinical Supervision. Referral Bonuses are also available!
Concern Housing is seeking an Overnight Counselor who will be primarily responsible for the overall monitoring and safety of the residents and the sites.
Position: Overnight Counselor
Location: Port Jefferson, NY
Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday; 12am - 8am
Salary: $21.00/hr.
Responsibilities Include but are not limited to:
- Read log for updates, instructions, and assignments.
- Enforce lights out & television out in common rooms at 12:00 a.m. on weekdays. 1:30 a.m. weekends (Friday & Saturday eve). -
- Perform an initial walk-through to enforce this rule as well.
- Filing, organizing charts, office cleaning, photocopying, etc., as assigned and/or as needed.
- Provide brief counseling as needed, redirect to regular staff when appropriate.
- Crisis intervention as needed.
- Be available via office phone to residents to do all of the above as needed.
- Perform hourly walk-throughs during your shift.
- Unlock kitchen and pantries in both sites for breakfast.
- Participate in monitoring of morning meds as needed.
- Prompt clients needing to wake early.
- Attend staff meetings as scheduled.
- Attend agency forums.
- Perform weekly fire safety system checks.
- Perform 1x a month fire drills, at varying hours.
- Complete a fire drill report.
- Counsel clients on proper exiting.
- Remain current with all Agency required compliance documents and trainings.
Requirements: Requires a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent along with at least two years of experience in a similar role.
Click here to apply: https://www.appone.com/MainInfoReq.asp?R_ID=6742502
Keywords: direct care counselor, psychology, human services, social work, mental health
Salary : $21
