Residential Counselor (Brain Injury

Job Title

Provides individual and group support to persons served in a residential program supporting individuals diagnosed with a brain injury. Teaches skills to enhance independence and quality of life. Ensures a safe, secure, and clean residential environment. Assists individuals in becoming fully integrated into their communities. Teaches skills to enhance independence and self-advocacy, and supports choices that contribute to living a good and meaningful life.

Ensures a safe, secure, and clean residential environment. Assists individuals in becoming full participants in their communities, develop and maintain friendships, and strengthen family engagement and partnerships.

• Assists individuals in the home in becoming fully integrated into their communities, and develop and maintain friendships.

• Assists individuals to access community-based support and resources.

• Plans recreational and social activities that promote social inclusion and the emotional well being of individuals in support of living a good life.

• Empowers and supports individuals in the home to make choices, be a self advocate, and be fully involved in making decisions in determining the directions of their supports and lives.

• Supports individuals in the home with access to assistive technology and adaptive equipment as a means to augment communication, access their communities, and generally live more independently.

• Supports individuals in securing, maintaining and growing in work, volunteer, and other community engagement opportunities.

• Supports individuals in the home to be more independent, be self-advocates, and make choices that define the direction and their vision for living a good life.

• Encourages and supports individuals and their involved families in maintaining strong partnership with staff and other interested parties.

• Provides training and support to individuals in the home. This includes rehabilitative interventions, behavioral interventions and monitoring, fire & safety regulations, appointment scheduling, money management, ADLs, grocery shopping, meal planning and cooking, household chores, use of generic resources, and other related areas.

• Performs hands-on tasks in the program, as required in order to facilitate implementation of support plans.

• Provides transportation, as necessary.

• Assesses the physical and emotional status of individuals in the home and reports changes to supervisor.

• Monitors individual funds, as needed.

• Maintains records for individuals in the home. Collects behavior and academic data and maintains progress notes. Documents all information related to incidents, programs, and routine activities in a communication log.

• Procures, stores, administers, documents, and disposes of medication for individuals consistent with MAP requirements, funding source regulations, and Company policy.

• Communicates with and provides information to interested parties such as program nurse, case managers, and Visiting Nurses Association.

• Participates in all mandated training and staff meetings as directed by the supervisor.

• Ensures compliance with all internal and external regulatory policies, procedures, and standards.

• Ensures home safety and maintenance as necessary at all times. This includes general housekeeping, snow shoveling, and trash removal.

• Complies with all corporate and divisional policies and procedures, including safe work practices, workers' compensation, universal precautions, and exposure control.

• Completes various paperwork and logs including communication logs, community membership logs, and activity schedules.

• Provides shift coverage, as necessary in other homes/programs as assigned by supervisor.

• Functions as human rights advocate. Provides physical intervention and/or First Aid in the event of behavior or medical emergency. Serves as a reporter to the Disabled Persons Protections Commission.

• Assists in developing, implementing, and documenting treatment, including ISP/PSTPs and clinical programs.

• Performs other related duties, as required.

• Knowledge and use of advocacy techniques

• Knowledge and use of different communication…