Residential Care Technician; Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health Hartmann Center

• Job Category Substance Use, Child & Adolescent, Residential Services
• Industry Public and Community Healthcare
• Employee Type Non-Exempt
• Required Degree High school

Highland Rivers provides treatment and recovery services to individuals impacted by mental illness; substance use disorders and intellectual developmental disabilities.

Hartmann is a residential treatment program for adolescents with substance abuse issues and/or co-occurring disorders. The Hartmann Residential Care Technician performs direct care services to promote, encourage, and ensure efficient operation of the Hartmann program, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of program participants. Seeking to contribute to the success of the Hartmann program, as well as the agency as a whole, the Residential Care Technician successfully carries out daily tasks including assisting with daily living activities, monitoring of program participants’ progress, and facilitation of life skills groups, through acquired knowledge, skills, and abilities.

• Assist with daily living activities, monitoring, and providing support to individuals residing in a 24/7 residential trauma-responsive substance abuse treatment facility to ensure the safety and wellbeing of individuals, with respect to appropriate therapeutic boundaries.
• Prepares and maintains records of individuals’ progress and services delivered, reporting changes in condition to manager or supervisor.
• Facilitates life skills groups, including education on personal hygiene, nutrition, money management, and interpersonal skills.
• Provides structured activities that promote socialization, recovery, wellness, self-advocacy, development of natural supports, and maintenance of community living skills.
• Monitors completion of urinalysis drug screens, and self-administration of medication in accordance with agency policies and procedures, to encourage accountability.
• Provides transportation for individuals to appointments and activities in the community.
• Ensures and provides high quality, compassionate, and ethical delivery of services to improve program and organizational performance.
• Assists with service-related compliance.
• Intervenes, stabilizes and manages acute crisis situations as needed.
• Assist in providing additional coverage during increased census/acuity and emergencies.
• Maintains confidentiality for all indirect/direct service in accordance with agency policies and HIPPA policies.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Health Insurance through the State Health Benefit Plan of GA
• Flexible Benefits such as dental, vision, life, critical illness, etc.
• Retirement Plan with employer matching
• 4 weeks of Paid Time Off with increase of accruals based on years of service
• 10 paid holidays
• 1 personal day
• Qualifying employer for Public Student Loan Forgiveness
• NHSC loan forgiveness in qualifying counties.
• Clinical supervision for candidates on a licensure track.

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Gender specific program requires female staff.
• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Minimum 1 year providing social or direct care services to individuals with addictive disease in a human service setting or associate's degree in Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Human Services, Criminology, or a related field of study.

• Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Human Services, Criminology, or a related field of study.
• 1 year of professional experience in behavioral health, specifically focusing on substance use disorders.
• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish is highly preferred.

Highland Rivers Behavioral Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of color, race, national origin, age sex, religion, or disability.

Selected applicants must pass a pre-employment background investigation and a pre-employment drug screen. Employment is contingent upon passing the background and the drug screen.

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