Independent Living Skills Coach (Overnight) (Awake)

Summary

The ILS Overnight Coach works as part of an Intensive Residential Treatment Services team providing care, treatment, and rehabilitation for individuals with significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms and functional impairments.

Essential Job Functions

• Provide assistance to person(s) served to promote their physical, social, and psychological well-being.
• Interact frequently and positively with person(s) served and support staff to promote the rights of the person(s) served to achieve an enhanced quality of life.
• Absorb and follow agency procedures to promote optimum health care, safety practices, and behavioral supports to maintain the well-being of person(s) served.
• Perform administrative duties such as scanning, faxing, organizing.
• Oversee meal preparation in the morning.
• Carry out cleaning tasks, including preparing a room for new admissions.
• Transport people served.
• Offer group and individual services for clients.
• Teach clients independent living skills.
• Develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with various teams.
• Manage the necessary financial aspects of the program using established practices and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with training licensing regulations and company policies and procedures.
• Administer and monitor medications.
• Maintain a clean and safe work environment; perform overnight duties from cleaning checklist.
• Prevent crises at the lowest level of escalation.
• Organize and conduct community and in-house recreational and leisure activities.
• Complete all required documentation to ensure quality services.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None

Minimum Knowledge and Skills Required for the Job

• Education and Experience: GED or High School Diploma with 2,000 supervised hours in the delivery of services to adults with serious mental illness. Bachelor's degree preferred in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university.
• Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations: N/A.
• Other Skills and Abilities: N/A.
• Other Requirements: Travel as needed.
• Physical Requirements: Medium Work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Pay Rate

$21.50

Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face. We’ve made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.