Residential Assistant - RE052

Position Summary

The Residential Assistant (RA) is responsible for attending to all client-related needs during the scheduled work shift. This includes monitoring clients, completing all relevant documentation and making appropriate referrals, and interacting with clients in a trauma-informed way.

What You Will Do

• Provide client support as required while maintaining client confidentiality in conformance with program guidelines and federal law.
• Facilitate client medication calls, maintain all medication sheets, and document proper distribution of medications.
• Keep daily log of pertinent events, notifying counselors of client's progress or problems.
• Maintain facility in a clean, orderly fashion while on duty, including regular sweeps of facility, poison checks, client checks, and ground checks.
• Follow orientation procedures for all new admissions or re-admissions.
• Supervise clients' weekly cleaning duties.
• Aid in answering phones and with new admissions such as preparing room assigned to and bed linens, preparing admission pack for clients (towels, bed linens and blankets, t-shirt and pants), personal belongings search and heat treatment, completing the personal possessions inventory list.
• Transport clients as needed to outside events, meetings, or appointments.