Residential Treatment Worker

THRIVE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC•Portsmouth, RI
•Onsite

About The Position

Thrive Behavioral Health is hiring a Residential Treatment Worker to provide direct services and supervise daily living skills for residents with long-term mental illness in a group home in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. The role includes maintaining a safe and comfortable environment, supporting residents’ daily living and social skills, coordinating care, and completing required documentation. The position pays $20 per hour, with an additional $1 per hour shift differential for third shift. The role reports directly to the Program Manager/Team Leader and is supervised according to Thrive Behavioral Health’s Supervision Policy. Thrive Behavioral Health is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic serving Kent County and has delivered mental health and substance use services since 1976. It provides evidence-based, person-centered programs across areas including adult mental health, youth and family services, substance use, housing, teen and young adult services, court-ordered services, and crisis behavioral health. The organization has more than a dozen locations across Rhode Island and more than 300 employees. The position is classified as non-exempt. The job description notes that employees scheduled for at least 17.5 hours per week are benefit eligible; time-off balances are prorated for part-time employees, and insurance plans remain the same regardless of full-time or part-time benefit eligibility. Thrive describes its workplace as friendly and family-oriented, with an emphasis on healthy work-life balance, dignity, respect, teamwork, and professional support and development.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Valid driver's license, or the ability to obtain necessary transportation to perform the job responsibilities.
  • Ability to meet the physical demands of the position, including occasionally lifting and/or moving up to 25 pounds and performing the listed physical activities and vision tasks.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience in the human services field.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise residents and provide a safe and comfortable environment.
  • Provide education, training, and modeling in basic living and social skills, including shopping within a budget 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 work email account daily for new messages.
  • Represent Thrive positively and consistently with its Guiding Principles and professional code of ethics.

Benefits

  • Three weeks of vacation to start, increasing to four weeks after two years of employment.
  • 10 sick days per year.
  • One floating day.
  • Birthday off.
  • 11 paid holidays.
  • Paid lunch.
  • Low-deductible medical insurance plan.
  • Dental insurance available for as low as $0 per month.
  • Vision insurance.
  • Company-paid life insurance worth twice annual salary, plus long-term disability.
  • 401(k) with 2% company match.
  • Optional Aflac, additional life insurance, and pet insurance.
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Healthtrax gym discount.
  • Employee referral bonuses.
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