Behavorial Health Tech

Benefits

Paid time off

Job Title: Behavioral Health Resident Assistant - Residential Youth Facility

Division: Adolescent Treatment Program

Location: Dayton, Ohio

Reports to: Supervisor

Date: February 9, 2025

The Behavioral Health Residential Assistant teammate is a member of a multidisciplinary team involved in providing quality care for youth in a residential environment.

This position provides continuous resident care, supervision, interaction, and role modeling; and is responsible for providing structure to and observation of residents that enter treatment.

• Ensure the wellbeing of residents and provide a safe, positive, supportive, and structured environment.
• Serve as a resource for new residents working alongside with the clinical and nursing team - introducing them to other residents and teammates, explaining programs and encouraging participation.
• Be an active participant as part of the treatment team, providing continuous resident care, supervision, and interaction.
• Demonstrate a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude towards residents and teammates always. When resident needs are not met, acknowledge and work to resolve concerns.
• Act as a role model by applying de-escalation techniques, using active listening skills, using appropriate tone and volume of voice, providing a high frequency and variety of positive reinforcements, maintaining appropriate boundaries, and promoting a positive culture.
• Recognize crisis situations and provide appropriate interventions based on training and experience.
• Assist in monitoring and maintaining the safety and security of the residents and the facility in collaboration with teammates.
• Recognize that resident safety is a top priority by conducting safety rounds, ensuring these rounds are conducted at intervals in accordance with individualized supervision guidelines (e.g., hall rounds every 15-minutes).
• Preparation of snacks and meals.
• Document activities and observed behaviors on shift in the general shift report accurately.
• Provide transportation for residents or coordinate transportation with appropriate staff members, as required.
• Perform periodic inspections of resident rooms and the facility, and work with the facility leadership team to develop plans to address problems/concerns, as needed.
• Assist with AWOL identification and intervention.
• Assist with life skills development and discharge planning.
• Facilitate resident phone calls as assigned.
• Maintain ongoing, current, and required training for best practice service delivery.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Complies with organizational policies, procedures, performance improvement initiatives and maintains organizational and industry policies regarding confidentiality.
• Adhere to all applicable HIPAA guidelines to ensure confidentiality of resident information.
• Commitment to valuing diversity, contributing to an inclusive working, and learning environment.
• Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among teammates by exemplifying Values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Ethics.
• Ability to exercise good judgment and remain calm in crisis situations in a professional manner.
• Incident response and crisis de-escalation skills.
• Develops constructive and cooperative working relationships with teammates and maintains the relationships over time.
• Exhibits therapeutic rapport with residents maintaining professional boundaries, being respectful of personal space, giving residents direct attention while maintaining rational detachment.
• Ability to empathize with residents and their families during phone calls and visits.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with a diverse resident population.
• Ability to promote collaboration and inclusion between departments to provide excellent resident care experience.
• Proficient, written, communication and people-centric skills.
• Strong organizational and time management skills and the ability to prioritize responsibilities.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Applications.
• Working knowledge of EMR/EHR systems.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapid growth environment.
• Ability to…