Senior Residential Aide: Milestone- 7069

Community Health Resources•Putnam, CT

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Milestone is a 7-30 day intensive level 3.7 residential treatment center designed to accommodate and treat women with a history of substance abuse, trauma, and mental health issues. Our program is recovery-oriented, gender-responsive, and trauma-informed. The overall goal of treatment is to help women find real hope for recovery. Milestone offers individual and group counseling, case management, and aftercare planning services. This program also provides treatment for co-occurring disorders, with substance abuse as their primary diagnosis. Treatment is individualized and targeted around the needs essential to moving forward toward employment, housing, and family stability. Milestone is part of CHR's Center of Excellence for Women/Women and Children at our Putnam campus. Length of day is less than 30 days and are then referred out to a step-down program to further address their co-occurring disorders. As a Senior Residential Aide, you will maintain physical environment and program standards, monitor medications, utilize appropriate communication methods to transfer information to other staff, teach and assist residents in areas of rehab including nutrition and healthy living, meal preparation, hygiene, laundry, banking and budgeting, and basic home care skills. You will also assist/manage administrative functions and tasks at the direction of the supervisor, prepare and facilitate educational and skill building groups and one to one intervention as directed by the treatment plan, collaborate and coordinate care with providers and families as needed, assist residents in addressing medical and psychiatric needs, and maintain documentation in compliance with agency and program standards. Additionally, you will participate in staff meetings, supervision, trainings and other meetings as assigned, facilitate post crisis response meetings with program staff and program director, orient and train new program staff, facilitate staff meetings in the absence of the program director, coordinate staff training efforts ensuring compliance to program models, and oversee staff implementation of identified strategies for residents to ensure needs are met. You will also care for all program facilities and equipment, ensuring program compliance with CHR health and safety standards, as well as Joint Commission, DCF, DPH, DMHAS, and OSHA standards, regulations, policies and procedures as applicable. This role provides after-hours’ on-call coverage, including holidays and weekends. Additional duties as required.

Requirements

High School Diploma required
Experience working as a Residential Aide in a congregate care setting.
Valid Driver’s License required
Use of personal vehicle may be required for position.

Responsibilities

Maintains physical environment and program standards to CHR, DMHAS, JCAHO and any other licensing standard
Monitors medications of all residents in accordance with the Adult residential medication policy and procedure.
Effectively utilizes appropriate communication methods/tools to transfer information to other staff regarding the day’s events
Teaches and assists all residents in areas of rehab including nutrition and healthy living, meal preparation, hygiene, laundry, banking and budgeting, and basic home care skills.
Assists/Manages administrative functions and tasks at the direction of the supervisor
Prepares and facilitates educational and skill building groups and one to one intervention as directed by the treatment plan.
Collaborates and coordinate care with providers and families as needed.
Assists residents in addressing medical and psychiatric needs.
Maintains documentation in compliance with agency and program standards.
Participates in staff meetings, supervision, trainings and other meetings as assigned.
Facilitates post crisis response meetings with program staff and program director.
Orients and trains new program staff.
Facilitates staff meetings in the absence of the program director.
Coordinates staff training efforts ensuring compliance to program models.
Oversees staff implementation of identified strategies for residents to ensure needs are met.
Cares for all program facilities and equipment: Household tasks and duties as assigned, or as needed, to promote a clean, safe, and comfortable environment. Maintains program vehicles and office site to agency standards.
Ensures program compliance with CHR health and safety standards, as well as Joint Commission, DCF, DPH, DMHAS, and OSHA standards, regulations, policies and procedures as applicable.
Provides after-hours’ on-call coverage, including holidays and weekends.
Additional duties as required.

Benefits

Ample paid time off, including a special day off for your birthday!
Contributions to your 403b Retirement Plan.
Competitive premiums with added discounts on pet, auto, and home insurance!
Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
Student loan repayment assistance (Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Nurse Corps, NHSC/HRSA at select sites).
Exclusive tuition discounts for CHR employees at several local colleges/universities.
FREE robust training curriculum, featuring our brand-new Clinical Training Series for interactive learning, practical skill enhancement, and professional growth!
Clinical supervision and/or mentoring available at many programs.
Internal career fairs: connect with recruiters to discuss your career aspirations and the various opportunities available within our over 80 programs statewide.
Annual wellness stipend.
FREE premium subscription to the Calm app, for employees and their families.
Fun activities like coloring contests, lunch & learns, office seasonal decorating contests, employee appreciation events, and more!
Up to 6 FREE confidential counseling sessions per issue, per year, for individuals, couples, & families through our EAP program.
Participate in leadership luncheons with our CEO and various agency committees!
Weekly video updates from our CEO and monthly newsletters to keep you in the loop.