Senior Residential Aide: Milestone

Senior Residential Aide

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Job Title:

Senior Residential Aide

Employment Type:

Full-time, 40 hours/wk

Scheduled

Hours:

At least one weekend day/Two 2nd shifts per week

Program/

Location:

Milestone, Putnam, CT

About the Program:
Milestone

Milestone is a 7-30-day intensive level 3.7 residential treatment center designed to accommodate and treat women with a history of substance abuse, trauma, and mental health issues. Our program is recovery-oriented, gender-responsive, and trauma-informed. The overall goal of treatment is to help women find real hope for recovery. Milestone offers individual and group counseling, case management, and aftercare planning services. This program also provides treatment for co-occurring disorders, with substance abuse as their primary diagnosis.

Treatment is individualized and targeted around the needs essential to moving forward toward employment, housing, and family stability. Milestone is part of CHR's Center of Excellence for Women/Women and Children at our Putnam campus. Length of day is less than 30 days and are then referred out to a step-down program to further address their co-occurring disorders.

About the Position:
Senior Residential Aide

Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintains physical environment and program standards to CHR, DMHAS, JCAHO and any other licensing standard
• Monitors medications of all residents in accordance with the Adult residential medication policy and procedure.
• Effectively utilizes appropriate communication methods/tools to transfer information to other staff regarding the day's events
• Teaches and assists all residents in areas of rehab including nutrition and healthy living, meal preparation, hygiene, laundry, banking and budgeting, and basic home care skills.
• Assists/Manages administrative functions and tasks at the direction of the supervisor
• Prepares and facilitates educational and skill building groups and one to one intervention as directed by the treatment plan.
• Collaborates and coordinate care with providers and families as needed.
• Assists residents in addressing medical and psychiatric needs.
• Maintains documentation in compliance with agency and program standards.
• Participates in staff meetings, supervision, trainings and other meetings as assigned.
• Facilitates post crisis response meetings with program staff and program director.
• Orients and trains new program staff.
• Facilitates staff meetings in the absence of the program director.
• Coordinates staff training efforts ensuring compliance to program models.
• Oversees staff implementation of identified strategies for residents to ensure needs are met.
• Cares for all program facilities and equipment:
  Household tasks and duties as assigned, or as needed, to promote a clean, safe, and comfortable environment. Maintains program vehicles and office site to agency standards.
• Ensures program compliance with CHR health and safety standards, as well as Joint Commission, DCF, DPH, DMHAS, and OSHA standards, regulations, policies and procedures as applicable.
• Provides after-hours' on-call coverage, including holidays and weekends.
• Additional duties as required.

Qualifications:

Education:

High School Diploma required

Experience:

Experience working as a Residential Aide in a congregate care setting.

Licensure/Certification/Registration:
Valid Driver's License required, Use of personal vehicle may be required for position.

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