Residential Case Worker PD

Responsibilities

• Available to cover shifts as assigned at any residential program, to include leaving one program to travel and work at another.
• Facilitate ADL skill-building for residential living and for community integration through supervising and teaching clients daily medication routines, budgeting, self-preservation skills, transportation, etc.
• Provide opportunities for skills practice and collaborative learning.
• Participate on a multi-disciplinary team in the development and implementation of client treatment plans and progress reviews, engaging clients whenever possible in the planning and evaluation process.
• Provide, coordinate and monitor treatment services for all assigned clients. Includes but not limited to contact with the client, as prescribed in the treatment plan; provision and coordination of care prescribed in the treatment plan through documented contact and implementation of assigned activities with client, client’s family, other Gateway staff, consultants and treatment plan designated staff from other human service agencies and medically oriented organizations.
• Maintain flexibility toward work schedules.
• Ensure Gateway office areas, residential programs are safe and secure via checking door and window locks and by knowing the whereabouts of all residence at all times during course of work shift.
• Schedule treatment plan meetings, facilitate treatment plan meetings, utilize assessment information, diagnostic results, medical record, client and family participation and participation of other human service providers to develop and document assessments and treatment plans/reviews in accordance with agency policy and procedure.
• Ability to screen for substance abuse and provide assessment with indicated treatment planning, counseling/education and referral.
• Perform other duties as assigned or needed.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Maintain flexibility toward work schedules.
• Ability to work schedule as posted and assigned, to include weekends and holidays.
• Ability to perform routine household chores involving some lifting and bending.
• Ability to communicate with clients and other staff face to face and by telephone.
• Ability to obtain and maintain CPR certification and first aid training and monitor client’s vital signs as required.
• Maintain a valid chauffeur’s license and capacity to use the program van or personally owned vehicle to transport clients in personally owned vehicle to day-activity program, medical appointments, other appointments and clinical appointments when necessary and to respond to medical emergencies and disaster evacuations.

Job Knowledge, Skill, and Ability

• Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence and memos.
• Ability to complete all clinical and administrative documentation as required.
• Ability to write correspondence, reports, care plans, etc.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and group situations to clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to access emergency resources to effectively manage crisis situations and ensure safety of clients and colleagues.
• Ability to maintain currently knowledge of all organization policy and procedures and protocols and guidelines, to ensure compliance.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral and diagram form.
• Ability to successfully complete all required training and certifications.
• Oral and written communication skills, including speech, grammar, spelling, and legibility are at sufficient level to ensure effective and appropriate communication.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals either manually or by use of a calculator.

Physical/Environmental Demands

• Regularly use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, office equipment, or controls and talk or hear.
• Frequently sit, walk, stand, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the abilities to adjust focus.
• Works in outside weather conditions.

Pay Range

$18.00-$27.13

Location

GHI-Charlestown-4705 Old Post Road - 4705 Old Post Rd. Charlestown, Rhode Island 02813

Work Type

Per Diem - Shifts assigned as needed

Work Shift

Variable

Daily Hours

8 hours

Driving Required

Yes