Residential Overnight Milieu Counselor
About The Position
The Residential Overnight Milieu Counselor works in a highly structured 24-hour residential facility serving male youth. The counselor acts as a role model and actively engages clients to support behavioral improvement and progress toward treatment goals. The position includes overnight client monitoring while clients sleep, maintaining facility cleanliness, preparing food for the next day, and helping clients follow their morning routines. Counselors provide therapeutic care in accordance with agency standards and policies, maintain client confidentiality under HIPAA standards, and use the program's specified tools and modalities. The role also involves administering morning medications as ordered, coaching clients through chores, attending meetings and training, and contributing to safety and quality improvement programs.
Requirements
- Minimum age of 21.
- Satisfactory results on a background check and drug screening are required for employment.
Responsibilities
- Understand each client's treatment needs and review and contribute to revisions and implementation of treatment plans.
- Maintain confidentiality at all times in accordance with HIPAA standards.
- Provide equitable and effective therapeutic care according to the Counselor's Orientation manual and agency policies and procedures.
- Perform general and light household chores during the overnight shift, including sweeping, dusting, and cleaning bathrooms.
- Monitor clients at irregular intervals throughout the night by walking the halls and looking into each assigned bedroom.
- Prepare for the next day's meals, including laying out frozen items, starting items in a crock pot, and preparing lunches.
- Develop and follow a written morning schedule and post it in the facility for clients and staff.
- Learn, use, and model Head Heart Hands, Cycles of Growth and Change, Think It Tools for Living, New Me curriculum, and subsequent agency program models.
- Wake clients each morning and guide them through the scheduled daily routine.
- Administer morning medications as ordered.
- Conduct morning check-ins, including HDID and verbal safety plans for attendance at scheduled activities.
- Prepare breakfast for clients each morning, with light breakfasts Monday through Friday and larger breakfasts on weekends.
- Assist and coach clients in completing morning and daily chores properly.
- Follow all traffic laws when driving clients or using company vehicles.
- Attend scheduled staff meetings and mandatory training.
- Accept and cooperate with supervisory guidance and leadership, and work consistently with peers and agency representatives.
- Support a teamwork environment.
- Participate in the quality improvement program and agency-wide safety programs, including fire and disaster drills and reporting potential hazards.
- Maintain professionalism in relationships with clients and coworkers.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
