Residential Counselor - Per Diem - David's Path

About the role

Residential Aide Per Diem position in the David's Path program. Assists individuals with daily personal routines, provides prompts for daily living skills, skill‑building activities, and group participation. Offers companionship, builds trusting relationships, works with nursing staff to monitor medical concerns and medication interactions, reports issues, ensures safe and sanitary living spaces, leads group activities and outings, collaborates with nursing, management, and coworkers to deliver quality services, and performs other assigned duties.

Responsibilities

• Establishes rapport and positive working relationships with clients while maintaining professional ethics and boundaries.
• Provides coaching to practice coping strategies and use of alternative adaptive behaviors.
• Assists in solving daily problems related to community living, medical conditions and interpersonal relationships.
• Provides support with daily living and self‑care skills including medication compliance, self‑management of mental illness symptoms, use of transportation, planning and preparation of nutritious meals, personal grooming, management of financial resources, shopping, use of leisure time, interpersonal communication and problem‑solving.
• Facilitates connections to natural community supports and mentors.
• Encourages development of self‑advocacy skills and assists with accessing self‑help and advocacy resources.
• Encourages practice of recovery skills to prevent relapse and manage symptom cycles.
• Develops or maintains positive social relationships to ensure independent participation in social, interpersonal or community activities and achieve full community reintegration.
• Provides transportation to and from appointments as identified.
• Conducts regular apartment/room inspections and assists clients in maintaining cleanliness of living spaces (may require hands‑on assistance).
• Conducts ongoing rounds checks ensuring safety of each individual and the program.
• Administers breathalyzer tests and collects urinalysis samples, as applicable.
• Documents shift logs in electronic record according to contract and agency policy.
• Develops and maintains working relationships with providers, families, and natural supports.
• Responds to crisis situations and provides appropriate interventions as outlined in agency policy for Nonviolent Practices.
• Supervises, monitors and documents the self‑administration of client medications.
• Attends mandatory weekly DBT consultation meetings.
• Attends and participates in monthly staff meetings, clinical rounds, AllTreater meetings and supervision.
• Maintains a clean, well‑organized work environment.
• Ensures all program egresses and walkways are clear to support workplace safety.
• Notifies supervisor of maintenance and/or safety issues and generates work orders as needed.
• Conducts and participates in fire and emergency evacuation drills and reviews the emergency preparedness plan as outlined in agency policy.
• Participates in Food Bank activities as assigned.
• Remains awake during all shifts to maintain security and safety of clients and facility.
• Adheres to policies and practices as outlined in the staff handbook and program operations manual.
• Works in a respectful, constructive, and cooperative manner.
• Upholds HIPAA regulations and secures necessary releases of information for outside communication.
• Models culturally competent behavior interacting with clients, providers, family, and fellow staff.
• Maintains accurate electronic records and case files as assigned and in accordance with programming, contractual, licensing, and accreditation requirements.
• Adheres to CARF standards.
• Participates in agency committee work when available or as permitted.
• Completes all trainings as required per program contract and agency policy.
• Attends agency‑sponsored in‑services, outside trainings, conferences and meetings to facilitate continued professional growth and ensure quality of case management practices.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent with minimum of one (1) year experience in related healthcare