Ful-time Residential Aide

St. Joseph's Addiction Treatment and Recovery Centers Location: Inpatient Facility - Saranac Lake, NY Position available: Full-time Residential Aide Shift/schedule: Sunday-Thursday / 3:00p - 11:00p Pay Range: $16.00/hour to $22.00/hour Position Summary: Works under the direction of the RN/Health Coordinator. They assist residents in becoming accustomed to the residence routine and encourage them to participate in social and recreational activities to promote recovery. Education and Training: High school graduate or equivalent. Experience and Work Knowledge: Working effectively with chemically dependent individuals. Essential Duties: - Orients new residents to the facility and helps the individual to adjust to community living without the use of alcohol/drugs. - Assist with monitoring of facility to ascertain residents’ activities and general status of facility. - Initiate appropriate action to ensure safety, wellbeing of residents’ and facility as required. - Schedule outside medical appointments as needed. - Assist as needed with medical portion of admissions to the facility. - Monitor residents while receiving MAT treatments in the medical department. - Check any identified resident in need of monitoring because of physical and/or emotional difficulties. Initiate appropriate action as assessment indicates. Document findings in the clinical log. - Available to offer counseling (crisis intervention only) to residents, as needed and documents sessions in staff log and reports to supervisor. - Completes all resident’s incident/accident or medical emergency forms as required. - Answers Phones. - Meets regularly with RN/Health Coordinator for supervision as per policy. - Responsible for additional duties as may be assigned by RN/Health Coordinator.