Resident Care Aide -E8 - Caro Psychiatric Hospital

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Resident Care Aide

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services mission is to provide opportunities, services, and programs that promote a healthy, safe, and stable environment for residents to be self-sufficient. We are committed to ensuring a diverse workforce and a work environment whereby all employees are treated with dignity, respect, and fairness. The resident care aide staff will provide direct care, person-centered services to individuals who are acutely or chronically ill with mental illness and/or developmental disabilities, and possibly with multiple physical health conditions.

Resident care aide staff provide an array of person-centered supports and services; including health care, ADL training, behavior management, etc which are developed by the treatment team via a specific assignment to provide care and supervision for an individual resident/ or an assigned group of resident/s. This includes accountability to provide visual observation of area to ensure resident/ whereabouts, safety and monitor activities.

The resident care aide staff assist the professional team members in formulating, revising and to implement the individual plan of service specific to the resident/ care needs. Resident care aide staff serve as a positive role model. Resident care aide staff are responsible for supervising resident/s in therapeutic milieu, in program delivery, ie. supervise and participate in active treatment and/or psychosocial rehabilitation programs, health care plans, and when accompanying resident/s in the community, ie.

medical appointments, inter-hospital transfer, sitter in community hospital, etc. Resident care aide staff assist resident/s who may require assistance when completing or learning activities of daily living such as bathing and grooming, meal time, dressing, etc. Resident care aide staff provide for implementation of emergency/ high risk procedures in accordance with Center/Hospital Policy/standards, ie. seclusion, restraint, manual holds, enhanced levels of supervision, CPR, etc.

Resident care aide staff document in the resident/'s medical record, and maintain accountability records, ie. resident/ check, sharps monitoring, etc. in accordance with Hospital/Center policy and the Nursing Standards of Practice. Maintain safe environment and perform light housekeeping duties. This is a Drug and Alcohol tested (DART) position under the criteria provided in the collective bargaining unit agreement. All positions are subject to criminal background checks and fingerprinting.

Education Educational level typically acquired through completion of high school. Experience Resident Care Aide 6 No specific type or amount is required. Resident Care Aide 7 One year of experience equivalent to a Resident Care Aide. Resident Care Aide E8 Two years of experience equivalent to a Resident Care Aide, including one year equivalent to a Resident Care Aide 7.

Employees are required to participate in in-service training courses and to satisfactorily complete the course work. Positions are assigned job duties that require possession of a valid driver's license. The physical location of this position is 2040 Chambers Rd., Caro, MI 48723. Remote work and alternate or hybrid work schedules are not considered for this position. Candidates should confirm work location and schedule at the time of interview.

Your application for any position does not guarantee you will be contacted by the Department/Agency for further consideration. Only those applicants, who interview will be notified of the results. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) software of any kind is prohibited in all areas of the selection process; including, but not limited to, responses to application questions, and responses to interview questions or exercises.

As a Condition of Employment: this position requires successful completion of a background investigation and a criminal record check. The preferred and appointed candidate will be subject to pre-employment, random, post-accident, reasonable suspicion, return-to-duty and follow-up drug and/or alcohol testing.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or selection processes, please contact the ADA coordinator for the agency that posted this position vacancy.

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