Residential Care Assistant - Behavioral Health

Foundations Recovery Network; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Compensation

Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and

401(K) with company match

Paid Time Off

Free Life Insurance

Tuition Assistance

Job summary

Skywood Recovery Center is a residential treatment facility offering integrated treatment for addiction and mental health conditions. It provides individual and group therapy, experiential therapy, equine and art therapy, and yoga, on a campus in Augusta, MI.

The role supports patient care, orientation, and therapeutic activities with a focus on de-escalation and motivational interviewing. Responsibilities include maintaining schedules, supervising patients, managing medications at intake, and

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Minimum 1 year experience working with dually diagnosed individuals preferred.
• CPR certification (or willing to obtain CPR training and certification).

Responsibilities

• Ensures orientation of new patients immediately upon admission.
• Conducts psycho-educational groups with patients.
• Provides empathic, supportive approach to all patient interactions by acting as a sounding board for the individual, ensuring confrontation is not used.
• Utilizes motivational interviewing and patient-centered techniques when assisting patients. Employs de-escalation techniques.
• Ensures program schedule is maintained.
• Completes room checks, safety checks and patient supervision checks as required.
• Maintains work area cleanliness, assists patients to develop appropriate cleaning skills by role modeling.
• Directly performs daily living maintenance responsibilities.
• Obtains all medications from consumer at intake and secures according to policy.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

De-escalation techniques

Motivational interviewing

Cultural sensitivity

Education

High School diploma or GED

CPR certification

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

Job description

Skywood Recovery Center is a residential treatment facility offering integrated treatment for addiction and mental health conditions. It provides individual and group therapy, experiential therapy, equine and art therapy, and yoga, on a campus in Augusta, MI.

The role supports patient care, orientation, and therapeutic activities with a focus on de-escalation and motivational interviewing. Responsibilities include maintaining schedules, supervising patients, managing medications at intake, and