Residential Support Counselor

Sweetser is hiring for a Residential Support Counselor in Belfast

$2,000 Sign-On Bonus
$19 Hourly

Schedule: Rotating Wednesday-Friday 8am-8:30pm & Thursday-Saturday 8am-8:30pm

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.