Youth Residential Support Specialist

Pay Range:$25.00 - $30.04

About the role

SEARHC is a non-profit health consortium serving the health interests of the residents of Southeast Alaska. We see our employees as our strongest assets and prioritize their professional advancement. Working at SEARHC is more than a job; it's a fulfilling career. We offer generous benefits including retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health insurance, dental, and vision benefits, life insurance, and long and short-term disability.

Responsibilities

• Using the Teaching Family Model, provide behavioral health interventions and teach skill development including effective communication, positive social interaction, problem solving, decision making, and anger management to families, individual clients and groups as defined in the treatment plans.
• Maintain consistent program and activity structure. Provide therapeutic limits.
• Demonstrate effective problem-solving skills and good active listening.
• Use approved strategies to prevent aggressive behavior and to deescalate volatile situations.
• Demonstrate basic understanding of co-occurring disorders and the interrelationship of substance abuse and mental health.
• Utilize teaching techniques and interventions according to the Teaching Family Model and other common treatment modalities and effectively engage the clients within the treatment process.
• Understand, utilize, teach and implement motivational systems.
• Plan, supervise and document daily activities that meet therapeutic goals.
• Provide ongoing monitoring and interventions to ensure client safety and immediately inform supervisor of any crisis or unsafe situation.
• Document daily progress notes in a timely manner, which meet agency standards and state and federal regulations.
• Must be able to engage in moderate physical recreational activities that support recovery.
• Establish and engage in professional collaboration within SEARHC and relevant community entities.
• Other duties as assigned to meet program, clinic, departmental and organizational goals.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Qualified Addiction Professional (QAP) certification or ability to obtain within 3 years of hire.
• Current and valid state of Alaska Driver’s License.
• At least 21 years of age.

Qualifications

• Preferred - 1 year of experience working with emotionally and/or behaviorally disturbed youth.
• Knowledge of Teamwork.
• Skills in Verbal and written communication.
• Skills/competence in child and youth care.
• Skills/competence in basic outdoor recreational activities.
• Ability to Implement training, actively participate in consultation services, including receiving and implementing feedback.
• Ability to Apply the basic principles of child development, behavioral health, and crisis intervention.
• Ability to Understand the indicators of child abuse, neglect, and mandatory reporting laws.
• Ability to Understand of cultural issues in the treatment process.
• Ability to Be sensitive to the unique needs of emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients and their families.
• Ability to Follow written protocols from medical, supervisory, and clinical personnel.
• Ability to Learn, understand, and implement professional boundaries.
• Ability to Maintain confidentiality.

Skills

• Ability to Engage in moderate physical recreational activities that support recovery.

Benefits

SEARHC offers generous benefits including retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health insurance, dental, and vision benefits, life insurance, and long and short-term disability.

Schedule

Shifts are 24/7. This includes days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.