Residential Assistant Men's Road to Recovery Evenings

Residential Assistant Men's Road to Recovery FT Evenings

Department: TPC-Men's Road to Recovery RA Site.

Operating Unit The Providence Center

Location: Providence, RI

Job : 21348

Job Status: Full Time

Shift: Evenings

Schedule: Mon.

-Fri. 3:00pm - 11:30pm

Job Summary:

The Providence Center Residential Assistant (Full Time, Evenings) Men's Road to Recovery will perform, coordinate and monitor the daily non-clinical operations of the program.

Schedule:
Full Time, Evenings (Second Shift, 3:00pm - 11:30pm).

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide orientation of clients into the community.
• Conduct tour of the facility and make introductions.
• Problem solve and provide other support to clients as needed.
• Serve as a role model.
• Assist all new clients with connecting to a Peer Mentor and introduce them to the Lead Peer.
• Assist in new client admissions.
• Review rules and regulations, issue linens, assign bedrooms, sign appropriate releases, gather birth certificates and social security cards, IDs, etc., introduce them to the case manager, nurse, their assigned clinician, management, and other staff as appropriate.
• Abide by all confidentiality standards and policies: HIPAA and 42
  
  CFR enforced.
• Assist with the supervision of AA/NA meetings and recreational activities.
• Check daily client details and follow through on any unsatisfactory performance.
• Assign daily client housekeeping assignments and assist clients in performing necessary housekeeping tasks.
• Transport clients to appointments with appropriate social service agencies; i.e. doctors, dentists, GPA, etc.
• Maintain an inventory of linens.
• Conduct toxicology testing and breathalyzer for all clients as instructed by management and documented as appropriate.
• Ensure a safe, clean and healthy living environment with HIPAA and best practices standards as a priority.
• Assist in conducting monthly/quarterly fire drills and send in reports.
• Monitor client whereabouts during fire drills or emergencies.
• Report any deficiencies to manager.
• Ensure medication procedures are followed.
• Ensure clients are present at designated times to take prescribed medications.
• Ensure information is logged and documented appropriately and accurately.
• Perform record keeping in accordance with Health Information Services (HIS) and other Center requirements.
• Document all notable client encounters in EPIC in the format of a quick note or group notes.
• Email staff members about client issues and/or concerns as appropriate.
• Complete daily activity logs.
• Develop and implement a plan of care with ongoing consumer input.
• Practice thorough and timely communication with client clinicians and case manager for client-related issues as appropriate.
• Monitor confidentiality in accordance with Center policy and legal requirements.
• Follow required office procedures in a cooperative manner.
• Initiate and process incident reports as per Center guidelines.
• Adhere to Infection Control protocols.
• Adhere to Weapons and Contraband protocols during admission, discharges, and upon client return for the community.
• Ability to carefully and accurately administer client medications per the programs polices and protocols.
• Must be comfortable participating in sample collection for toxicology reports.
• Ability to read and transpose toxicology screen results received from the lab into program documentation and communicate issues to the clinician/nurse.
• Maintain cooperative relationships with clients, other employees and the public.
• Attend trainings, case presentations and conferences.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Requirements:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED). Advanced education preferred.
• Experience working with a substance abuse population is strongly preferred.
• Must have awareness of the general trends in confronting the problems of substance abuse.
• Must be able to obtain medication room clearance within 3 month of being hired: have a baseline understanding of medication protocol per TPC policy, understand and adhere to medication disposal policy, and basic safety precaution of handling medication in a residential setting.
• Must have valid driver's license and insured auto.
• Must be able to work well with a broad spectrum of people.
• Must be well…