About this role
St. Joseph's Addiction Treatment and Recovery Centers
Location: Inpatient Facility - Saranac Lake, NY
Position available: Full-time Residential Aide
Shift/schedule: Monday-Friday, 11:00pm-7:00am
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.