Aide - Residential

Responsibilities

The Residential Assistant monitors and provides care for patients.

• Ensures orientation of new patients immediately upon admission.
• Conducts psycho-educational groups with patients.
• Provides empathic, supportive approach to all patient interactions by acting as a sounding board for the individual, ensuring confrontation is not used.
• Utilizes motivational interviewing and patient-centered techniques when assisting patients. Employs de-escalation techniques.
• Ensures program schedule is maintained.
• Completes room checks, safety checks and patient supervision checks as required.
• Maintains work area cleanliness, assist patients to develop appropriate cleaning skills by role modeling. Directly performs daily living maintenance responsibilities.
• Obtains all medications from consumer at intake and secures according to policy.
• Utilizes local crisis response plan in case of emergency psychiatric emergency (i.e. suicidal/homicidal ideation or threats).
• Performs all other duties as required or assigned.

Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to consistently demonstrate through conduct and communications the stability required to effectively assist patients and their family members through the FRN Model of Treatment.
• Must have high level of interpersonal skills. Position continually requires demonstrated poise, professionalism, tact and diplomacy.
• Must have general knowledge of a variety of computer software applications in word processing and spreadsheets (MS Word, Excel).
• Understanding of diverse cultures and gender specific issues and the ability to incorporate needs of gender and culturally diverse groups into the organization.
• Understands need for and maintains appropriate confidentiality at all times when interacting with patients, residents, families, visitors, referral sources and all other contacts.

Education and Experience

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Minimum 1 year experience working with dually diagnosed individuals preferred.
• CPR certification (or willing to obtain CPR training and certification).

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries
• Competitive Compensation
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Free Basic Life Insurance
• Pick-up Bonus
• Student Loan Reimbursement
• Tuition Assistance

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

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