Residential Support Counselor

Essential Functions

• Provide a positive emotional support and supervision to residents.
• Aid individuals in reaching their goals and improving skills for independent living.
• Incentivize and support the resident’s efforts to maintain health status through hygiene, diet, exercise, rest, and coping strategies.
• Incentivize and support the resident’s efforts to enhance social interactions, vocational development, skill-building for independence, psychosocial rehabilitation, and access to community resources.
• Administer medications and complete required documentation.
• Collaborate as a member of a team.
• Safeguard quality in work performed to ensure service delivery quality.
• Comply with Sweetser health and safety policies.
• Commit to the organization’s mission, vision, and values.

Requirements

• Valid state driver's license.
• Experience providing direct care and/or crisis intervention to adults in a related field (one year).
• MHRT-I state certification or eligibility for and completion of certification within the first year of employment.

Education

• High School diploma or GED.