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Residential Support Counselor - Awake Overnight - Float Position
Job Code:12733
Location:Belfast 04915
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.