Lead Advanced Residential Support Staff

Job Description:

The Lead Advanced Residential Support Staff is responsible for leading staff and clients through their shift successfully. The Lead ensures all shift tasks are assigned and completed and works with leadership and the activities coordinator to develop and implement schedules and activities for youth.

Essential Job Functions:

Participates as an active member of the leadership team by facilitating interactions and ensuring the program is a safe haven for therapeutic transformation. Continuously assesses and positively supports the staff and youth’s interactions by helping to identify client’s strengths, needs, abilities and preferences. Provides direct and indirect supervision of all assigned staff and youth in the home. Consistently monitors staff’s ability to implement therapeutic treatment plans, along with program expectations.

Through active participation and positive modeling, works with staff and youth on their daily program goals to encourage the development of healthy life skills including, but not limited to homework, chores, food preparation, recreation, social skills, and individualized treatment plan goals. Arrives to work prepared to actively participate in all required duties and responsibilities and meetings which include, but are not limited to, shift change, individual supervision and staff meetings.

Facilitates specialized group meetings or interaction as assigned by leadership. Communicates with leadership to ensure overall youth needs are addressed (clothing, supplies, correspondence, inventory updated, etc.) Implements crisis prevention and management techniques with youth through the use of authorized de-escalation techniques as needed during the shift. Documents and/or reports at shift change and/or in client/patient record any exceptional behavior and/or areas of concerns related to client's behaviors/interactions.

Prepares and administers medications (per physicians’ orders) following the guidelines set forth by the medical team, when assigned. Transports youth to and from school, community outings, and other appointments as needed. Serves as a role model to all staff and youth by modeling positive verbal and non-verbal behavior at all times and encouraging an environment that promotes hope, motivation and resilient transformation.

Supervises, plans, facilitates and adapts all scheduled activities, as needed. Performs other duties as assigned by Program Director, Residential Coordinator, Assistant Residential Coordinator or Executive Team Member as deemed necessary by the department.

• Knowledge of confidentiality laws governing the treatment of substance use and mental health disorder treatment.
• Ability to establish rapport with the client population.
• Capable of communicating ideas clearly and effectively both verbally and written to produce clear and concise reports.
• Ability to establish rapport with the client population.
• Skilled in multitasking, prioritizing tasks in regards to impact on programmatic functioning.
• Demonstrate leadership ability.
• Ability to participate and contribute to curricula development.

• Must have at least a High School Diploma or GED with experience in Human Services or related field.
• A Bachelor's degree in Human Services or related field is preferred.
• Must have reliable transportation and collision insurance to cover transport of clients.

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• Successful completion of background check including criminal record, driving record, abuse/neglect and fingerprint check.
• Completion of New Hire Orientation at the beginning of employment.
• All training requirements including Relias at the beginning of employment and annually…