Per-diem Residential Aide

St. Joseph's Addiction Treatment and Recovery Centers

Location:Inpatient Facility - Saranac Lake, NY

Position available:Per-diem Residential Aide

Shift/schedule:As Needed

Pay Range:$16.00/hour to $22.00/hour

Position Summary: Works under the direction of the RN/Health Coordinator. They assist residents in becoming accustomed to the residence routine and encourage them to participate in social and recreational activities to promote recovery.

Education and Training: High school graduate or equivalent.

Experience and Work Knowledge:Working effectively with chemically dependent individuals.

Essential Duties:

• Orients new residents to the facility and helps the individual to adjust to community living without the use of alcohol/drugs.
• Assist with monitoring of facility to ascertain residents’ activities and general status of facility.
• Initiate appropriate action to ensure safety, wellbeing of residents’ and facility as required.
• Schedule outside medical appointments as needed.
• Assist as needed with medical portion of admissions to the facility.
• Monitor residents while receiving MAT treatments in the medical department.
• Check any identified resident in need of monitoring because of physical and/or emotional difficulties. Initiate appropriate action as assessment indicates. Document findings in the clinical log.
• Available to offer counseling (crisis intervention only) to residents, as needed and documents sessions in staff log and reports to supervisor.
• Completes all resident’s incident/accident or medical emergency forms as required.
• Answers Phones.
• Meets regularly with RN/Health Coordinator for supervision as per policy.
• Responsible for additional duties as may be assigned by RN/Health Coordinator.