Residential Support Counselor - Relief

About the role

Join the Adult Residential Team in Belfast as a Relief Residential Support Counselor, picking up hours at your own availability with a flexible schedule. Participate in a dynamic team providing support to individuals with mental illness, fostering a positive environment for developing independent living skills while monitoring and role modeling health and safety within a recovery and resiliency framework.

Responsibilities

• Provide positive emotional support and supervision to residents
• Assist individuals to reach their goals and improve skills for independent living
• Encourage and support residents' efforts to maintain health status through hygiene, diet, exercise, rest, and utilization of coping strategies
• Encourage and support residents' efforts to increase opportunities for social contact, vocational development, skill development for independent living, psychosocial rehabilitation, and access to community resources
• Facilitate administration of medications and complete required documentation
• Work collaboratively as a member of a team
• Assure quality in work performed to facilitate the delivery of quality services
• Understand and follow all Sweetser health and safety policies
• Be committed to the mission, vision, and values of the organization

Requirements

• Valid state driver's license
• High School diploma or GED
• One (1) year of experience providing direct care and/or crisis intervention to adults in a related field
• MHRT-I state certification or eligibility for and completion of certification within the first year of employment

Pay

$19.00 per hour