Chemical Dependency Technician

Job Summary

As our Chemical Dependency staff, you will provide coverage for the Residential Unit during day, evening, and overnight shifts, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for clients in the absence of counseling staff. You will perform a range of basic responsibilities to ensure the care, comfort, and safety of adolescent, adult, and geriatric clients, including taking vital signs, documenting client activities, and supervising medications and treatments.

Responsibilities

• Perform a range of basic responsibilities to ensure the care, comfort, and safety of adolescent, adult, and geriatric clients, including taking vital signs, documenting client activities, and supervising medications and treatments.
• Maintain clear communication with both clients and your interdisciplinary team, contributing to a supportive and effective treatment environment where clients’ well-being remains the top priority.
• Establishes and maintains effective therapeutic relationships with clients and/or families and significant others who are experiencing a variety of complex substance abuse problems and related issues.
• Responsible for residential unit during evening, overnight, and weekend hours.
• Documents regular client activities and any otherwise unusual circumstances that occur during their shift.
• Provides supervision of the clients and moves around and surveys the unit to locate all clients and update incoming staff.
• Prepares admission packets, takes inventory, and prepares information to be sent out to clients, families, and/or referral sources as directed by the multi-disciplinary team.
• Performs certain amount of cleaning duties.
• Periodically responsible to explain admission information to clients recently admitted; explaining client’s rights, rules and guidelines, program operations, tour of the facility, and other pertinent orientation information.
• Documents orientation information.
• Instructs clients and family members on fire procedures and emergency exits and tornado procedures.
• Takes client vital signs, checks client height/weight, supervises medication/treatments and basic first aid, checks client rooms and general facility for cleanliness, and generally monitors clients to insure they are following specified treatment plans.

Job Requirements

• Required High School or GED.
• Ability to perform simple arithmetic calculations in order to take and record vital signs as normally acquired through completion of high school and Approximately one month experience in order to gain knowledge of client care methods, policies and procedures, techniques and schedules, upon hire.
• Familiarity and understanding of Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, and other 12 Step Recovery Programs, upon hire.
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire.
• Medication Aide: NE, within 6 - months.