AIDE - RESIDENTIAL

The Residential Assistant monitors and provides care for patients. Essential duties and responsibilities include ensuring orientation of new patients immediately upon admission, conducting psycho-educational groups with patients, providing an empathic, supportive approach to all patient interactions, utilizing motivational interviewing and patient-centered techniques, employing de-escalation techniques, ensuring program schedule is maintained, completing room checks, safety checks and patient supervision checks as required, maintaining work area cleanliness, directly performing daily living maintenance responsibilities, obtaining all medications from consumer at intake and securing according to policy, utilizing local crisis response plan in case of emergency psychiatric emergency, and performing all other duties as required or assigned.

Knowledge, skills and abilities include the ability to consistently demonstrate through conduct and communications the stability required to effectively assist patients and their family members through the FRN Model of Treatment, high level of interpersonal skills, demonstrated poise, professionalism, tact and diplomacy, general knowledge of a variety of computer software applications in word processing and spreadsheets, understanding of diverse cultures and gender specific issues, and maintaining appropriate confidentiality at all times when interacting with patients, residents, families, visitors, referral sources and all other contacts.

Education and experience include a high school diploma or GED required, minimum 1 year experience working with dually diagnosed individuals preferred, and CPR certification (or willing to obtain CPR training and certification).