Anthem Life Coach

Job Description: Transition Life Coach

Time commitment: Part-time 24-32 hours per week, potential for full-time

Reports to: Anthem Director

Job Status: Non-exempt

An Anthem House advocate directs all of the students on their shift while managing all the activities in the home.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Fulfill a role with the students as a proxy parent
• Teach and enforce boundaries and expectations with students
• Attend to each student's needs while challenging and supporting them
• Set limits for students and teach more effective ways
• Intervene in unsafe or inappropriate behavior
• Act upon all opportunities to teach and connect with students
• Learn the "trust, but verify" method when working with students
• Create a successful, healthy home environment for teenagers and guard against threats such as fraternity or college dorm feel
• Become a guardian of excessive use of media/inactivity
• Assure time and resources are spent on the most clinically helpful activities for the boys
• Teach the proper cleanliness and organizational standards of a healthy home
• Communicate and ask questions with the primary therapist frequently

Life Coach Role

• Work with therapists to ensure each student moving to Anthem is prepared to come
• Understand the rules and expectations and have established goals and schedules to fit each student's needs
• Teach students effective methods for goal setting and follow up
• Teach the students effective methods for organization, cleaning habits and maintenance of their responsibilities in the house
• Communicate with parents weekly by phone
• In phone calls follow appropriate guidelines in addressing topics of a therapeutic nature
• Avoid discussions and topics of a clinical nature by referring parents and students to their primary therapist
• Communicate effectively and timely with parents, treatment team members and students under my stewardship
• Anticipate the needs of the students, forecast, and help them to prepare for life events
• Work with students to understand my role as a life coach and foster buy in with the student by helping him begin with the end in mind
• Seek supervision and other resources to build my competency to that of best practices
• Produce a clear and concise residential report during treatment team

Charting

• Follow charting expectations for BIRP charting
• Create thorough and prompt incident reports
• Understand the incident report guidelines
• Follow the medication administration expectations as described in the medication certification training
• Follow notification protocols listed in Notifying Nursing Department document ? Trained in medication administration as per Telos' policies and procedures
• Administer medications as ordered by the doctor / nursing manager
• Communicate and report to program director
• Complete residential certifications and classes such as CPR, First Aid, Processing Training, TB Tests, Restraint Training, etc.
• Chart in each student's medical record on the HQ database
• Maintain a safe, positive environment in the home at all times
• Strive to model the Anthem team after a functional, highly structured family home

Qualifications:

• Minimum 1 year of experience in behavioral health related fields
• Exceptional relationship skills
• Flexibility and ability to handle many situations simultaneously
• Ability to maintain healthy boundaries with students
• Timely
• Dependable and reliable
• Ability to receive and carry out instruction
• Genuine care and concern for others