Belfast 04915, ME, USA
8 days ago
Residential Support Counselor - Awake Overnight
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.
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