Residential Relief Worker
About The Position
The Residential Relief Worker provides direct service and supervises daily living skills for residents with long-term mental illness in a group home. The role includes helping maintain a safe and comfortable living environment, supporting residents’ basic living and social skills, coordinating health services, supervising medication compliance, maintaining required documentation, providing crisis intervention, and transporting clients. The worker also completes required training and meetings, follows safety and agency policies, works assigned hours and shifts punctually, and contributes as a professional and respectful member of the team.
Requirements
- Associate degree in a human service field or equivalent experience.
- Experience in the human service field.
- Valid driver’s license or ability to obtain necessary transportation to perform job responsibilities.
- Ability to meet the described physical demands, including lifting or moving up to 25 pounds, with reasonable accommodation where applicable.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in psychology, social work, special education, or a related human services field.
Responsibilities
- Supervise residents and provide a safe and comfortable environment.
- Educate, train, and model basic living and social skills, including budgeting and distinguishing wants from needs.
- Coordinate and monitor medical, dental, and psychiatric services.
- Supervise medication compliance.
- Produce, complete, and maintain billing forms, logs, data collection forms, clinical documentation, and client records in accordance with Thrive standards and state and federal regulations.
- Provide crisis intervention and basic behavioral program implementation.
- Transport clients.
- Review the email account daily for new messages.
- Attend required agency and department training and meetings within the prescribed period.
- Attend Safety Training programs and understand responsibilities related to general safety, department safety, and job-related hazards.
- Treat clients, families, visitors, and fellow employees with respect and courtesy.
- Support Thrive’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Mission Statement and Definitions.
- Maintain a neat appearance and wear attire and identification as required by agency policies and procedures.
- Work assigned hours and shifts, beginning and ending on time.
- Promote a positive Thrive image consistent with its Guiding Principles and professional code of ethics.
- Work effectively as a member of a team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Associate degree
