What are the responsibilities and job description for the Residential Support Counselor - Awake Overnight position at Sweetser?
$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.
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.
