Awake Residential Services Technician (RST) - Morrison Place

The Opportunity Alliance • South Portland, ME

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Awake Residential Services Technician provides nighttime direct services in an adult residential group-care or transitional-living setting. The role provides residents with personal support and supportive counseling, contributes to a clinical team that uses daily living activities as treatment components, and helps maintain a homelike environment and sense of permanency. The technician helps identify residents’ needs and emerging needs, supports physical and mental health well-being, administers medications, provides oversight and personal support, and contributes to milieu management. The role also maintains a clean and organized facility and staff-office charts and documentation. Technicians attend weekly or biweekly program staff meetings and other meetings as needed. Work is performed, reviewed, and evaluated under the supervision of the Program Director or Program Coordinator.

This is an onsite, full-time position of 40 hours per week on the third shift/overnight, with various schedules available. The residential program operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and availability on weekends and holidays is required. The position is based at a residential program in Portland or South Portland, Maine. Pay is $21.50 per hour, with an additional $2 per hour shift differential between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Must become certified as a Mental Health Rehabilitation Technician 1 (MHRT1) within one year of employment and maintain required training to uphold continuous MHRT1 status.
• Strong communication and conflict-resolution skills required.
• Flexible schedule required, including availability on weekends and holidays.
• Ability to work in a team environment required.
• Must pass criminal-background, child-protective-service, and sex-offender checks.
• Must not be on a state or federal suspension and disbarment list.
• If MHRT is required for the position, must pass a CNA registry check.
• Must pass a pre-employment physical and TB screen.
• Must be able to exert moderate physical effort, including occasional standing, walking, reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, driving, and typing, and frequently lift and carry materials weighing up to 25 pounds.
• A good driving record is required.

Nice To Haves

• Associate or bachelor’s degree, or equivalent training, in mental health.
• Basic proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Provide nighttime direct services in a residential group-care or transitional-living setting.
• Provide personal support and supportive counseling to residents.
• Participate as part of a clinical team using daily living activities as treatment components and helping create a homelike environment.
• Help identify residents’ needs and emerging needs and support their physical and mental health well-being.
• Administer medication and provide personal support, watchful oversight, and milieu management.
• Maintain a clean and organized facility.
• Maintain staff-office charts and documentation.
• Attend weekly or biweekly program staff meetings and other meetings as necessary.
• Drive as needed to meetings and trainings, to meet with clients offsite, or to an agency location to complete work; transportation of clients may be required.

Benefits

• Generous paid time off accrual.
• Nine paid holidays per calendar year and up to three floating holidays per calendar year.
• Medical benefits at reasonable cost.
• Dental and vision insurance options.
• Agency-paid basic life insurance.
• Agency-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• 403(b) retirement plan with an agency match; all employees are eligible.
• Tuition reimbursement offered once per year through an application process.
• Employer qualification under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED