PD Residential Alcohol and Other Drugs Coordinator **Parisi House**

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Enter information into the daily log, including descriptions of any incidents, altercations, mother-child interactions, or medication discrepancies.
• Oversee the day-to-day activities of clients and their children, including regular rounds, chores completed at scheduled times, attending scheduled groups, and ensuring proper supervision and safety of all clients and children.
• Monitor and assist mothers’ positive parenting activities, providing crisis intervention as needed.
• Provide client access to their medications and ensure correct dose and medication are being provided. Inventory client medication per shift.
• Regularly scheduled and emergency transportation for clients, including appointments, grocery shopping, WIC, and others as needed.
• Track daily census of clients.
• Conduct scheduled and random urine and oral drug testing.
• Set up bedrooms for potential clients, including bedding and welcome baskets. Clean bedrooms of outgoing clients and submit maintenance requests as needed.
• Communicate thorough shift exchange with incoming staff, including client updates and pending to-dos for the shift.
• Conduct facility, room, and client searches as needed, including all incoming packages and personal items brought for clients.
• Conduct end-of-month report, including inventories of food, medicine, and supplies, fire and safety checks, and any maintenance requests as needed.
• Participate in trainings and achieve certifications as required by federal, state, and county licensing requirements.
• Conduct client checks and take vitals per the organization’s Withdrawal Management Policy.
• Provide childcare coverage as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities Required

• Must have a high school diploma or GED.
• A valid California Driver License, with access to a reliable vehicle/for driving a company vehicle, current proof of auto liability insurance, and a clean DMV record.
• Working knowledge of common computer software programs including MS Office, Excel.
• Filing skills (alpha, numeric, date).
• Some experience working in a multicultural setting with women and children affected by the disease of addiction and having possible mental health diagnoses.
• Sensitivity to female privacy interests and prior domestic abuse.
• Experience of social model methodology and 12-Step recovery principles.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish).
• Strong personal boundaries matched with compassion.
• Experience role modeling recovery concepts, healthy life skills, and positive parenting skills to maintain a positive environment for recovery.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to sit, stand and walk up and down a small hill.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds (strollers, supplies, small children).

Work Environment

• Primary work is performed in a residential setting with short periods of time at an office desk.
• Will be exposed to clients in various states of undress.

Travel Requirement

• Local travel to training, client appointments, and other as needed errands may be required.