Independent Living Skills Coach (Overnight) (Awake)

About the role

The ILS Overnight Coach works as part of an Intensive Residential Treatment Services team that provides care, treatment, and rehabilitation for individuals experiencing significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms, functional impairments, and co-occurring disorders.

Responsibilities

• Provide assistance to person(s) served in order 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.
• Avoid medication administration and monitoring.
• Follow agency procedures to promote optimum health care, safety practice, and behavioral supports to maintain the well-being of person(s) served.
• Administer and monitor medications as per the plan of care.
• Assist Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioners with requested needs.
• Perform administrative duties such as scanning, faxing, organizing.
• Oversee meal preparation in the morning.
• Clean tasks; including preparing a room for new admissions.
• Transport people served.
• Provide group and individual services for clients.
• Teach clients independent living skills.
• Develop and maintain a cooperative working relationship with various teams.
• Provide the necessary financial management for the day-to-day operations of the program using established practices and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with training licensing regulations and company policies and procedures.
• Maintain a clean and safe work environment; provide overnight duties from cleaning checklist.
• Adhere to the practice of maintaining a therapeutic environment including the prevention of crisis at the lowest level of escalation.
• Develop and participate in community and in-house recreational and leisure activities, as conducive to schedule.
• Complete all documentation as required to ensure quality services.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• None

Skills

• None

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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