Residential Assistant, Crisis Stabilization & Detox (Evenings)

Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare; Roanoke (VA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

21 days PTO per year

10 paid holidays

Job summary

Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare is seeking a Residential Assistant for the Crisis Stabilization & Detox unit in Roanoke, VA. The role covers evenings (3pm-11pm), five days per week with alternating weekends, and involves monitoring clients and supporting nursing staff.

You will assist with admissions/discharges, rounds, vital signs, and coordinating meals and transportation, while helping with medication pickup and unit upkeep. A strong focus on safety is essential.

Qualifications

• Education: High school diploma or GED is required.
• Experience with individuals with mental illness or substance use disorders is a plus.
• Background checks (fingerprints, state/FBI) and drug test required upon selection.
• Clean driving record with limited moving violations in recent years.

Responsibilities

• Assist admissions and discharges.
• Answer the phone and coordinate with nurse on duty.
• Complete and record vital signs.
• Assist clients to groups and meals.
• Provide client transportation as needed.
• Complete medication pick-up.
• Assist in the kitchen as needed.
• Maintain unit cleanliness (beds, linens, floors, trash, bathrooms).
• Monitor client safety via 30 and 15 minute rounds.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Observation and safety monitoring

Client transportation

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Residential Assistant, Crisis Stabilization & Detox (Evenings)

Company Summary

At Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare, Hope is Spoken Here. Our mission is to provide quality, community-based services that prevent and address mental health disorders, developmental disabilities, and substance use disorders.

We put people first-ensuring every individual is treated with dignity and respect while providing flexible, affordable, and timely services.

Join us in making a meaningful difference in the lives of those we serve as a Residential Assistant. The schedule for this position is evenings – 3pm-11pm, 5 days per week, including alternating weekends.

Position Summary/Responsibilities

Our Crisis Stabilization and Detox Unit provides short-term (3 to 15 day), in-patient stabilization for individuals who have symptoms of mental illness that could, if not addressed, result in a need for hospitalization. This service also offers medically supervised detoxification from alcohol and other drugs. Those needing both detoxification and support for symptoms of mental illness are served. Services are provided in a recovery-oriented environment, and include skills training, psychiatric care, 12-step recovery groups on-site, and discharge planning to assure continuity of care in transitioning to outpatient services.

The Residential Assistant is responsible for monitoring client behavior on the Crisis Stabilization/Detox unit, assisting with rounds and reporting any abnormal findings to nurse on duty.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• assisting with admissions and discharges
• answering the phone
• completing and recording vital signs
• assisting clients to groups and meals
• providing client transportation as needed
• completing medication pick-up
• assisting in the kitchen as needed
• responsibility for overall cleanliness of the unit including sanitizing beds, changing linens, mopping floors, emptying trash, sanitizing bathrooms
• monitoring client safety via 30 and 15 minute rounds

Hiring Range

The anticipated base salary for this position is $34,325.88 to $40,161.77. Actual compensation offered within this range will be determined based on the candidate's experience, education, qualifications (knowledge, skills, and abilities), geographic location, complexity of role, and other relevant business considerations. We kindly ask that candidates do not discuss compensation until after an offer of employment is extended.

Requirements

• Education: High school diploma or GED required.
• Experience:Working directly with individuals with mental illness or substance use disorders is a plus!
• Background Check: Fingerprints, State and FBI criminal record reports, drug test, and central registry report will be required upon selection.
• Safe Driving Record: This position requires transporting clients or driving agency vehicles. Candidates must have a good driving record, which is defined as no more than two moving violations in the last three years and no criminal moving violations in the last five years.

Special Work Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee will often sit, stand, walk, bend, stoop, crawl and reach above their head. Use of hands for placing and pulling objects. The employee frequently lifts and or carries up to 50 pounds and pushes or pulls up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (driving). Specific hearing required by this job includes normal tones. Travel up to 10%. Travel is local.

Why work at BRBH?

• Team atmosphere: Our small team works hard to change lives.
• Work/Life Balance: We have a great Paid Time Off policy - 21 days annually, which starts accruing on your first day, plus 10 paid holidays.
• Stable Employer: BRBH provides multiple programs and services throughout the Roanoke Valley with over 350 employees working to provide quality care to our clients. We are proud to have served our community for over 50 years. BRBH maintains a drug‑free workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. This position is located in Roanoke, VA.

EOE Statement Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation general identify or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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