Youth Residential Technician - Behavioral Health - Carrier Clinic - FT Nights

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Carrier Clinic, a behavioral health system, has been a trusted source of compassionate help and supportive healing for patients and their families since we opened our doors in 1910. Hackensack Meridian Health Carrier Clinic’s East Mountain Youth Lodge provides a continuum of out-of-home residential treatment services for adolescents between the ages of 13-18. We provide 24-hour clinical, therapeutic treatment for emotional, behavioral, psychiatric, and substance abuse difficulties based on the resident strengths and needs.

Responsibilities

• Provides 24-hour care on a close, personal basis and assists in establishing an appropriate home environment that provides supervision and support for the residents.
• Helps provide a range of daily living activities for residents, personal supervision of residents, and day-to-day household functions at the lodge.
• Directly supervises and knows the whereabouts of every resident they are assigned.
• Supervises, observes, and participates with residents in the carrying out of the daily routine (i.e., chores).
• Consistently implements all program procedures (i.e., point systems, level systems).
• Runs activity, support, and recreation groups with guidance from clinical staff.
• Organizes, supervises, and conducts planned activities for groups and individuals.
• Provides assistance to residents in the planning of appropriate recreational activities.
• Serves as a primary counselor for an assigned number of residents.
• Assists residents in learning home management skills (cooking, cleaning, etc.).
• Teaches residents about the importance of cleanliness, good nutrition, meal planning, prudent buying, etc., while guiding them in learning skill mastery.
• Corrects client behavior by administering reasonable and fair disciplinary measures when necessary.
• Ensures each resident is informed of the rules and regulations of the program.
• Provides crisis intervention to residents as needed.
• Assists in escorts and personal restraints of agitated residents.
• Attentive to building security and performs such checks as designed by the program.
• Conducts resident room checks and room searches as designed by the program.
• Carries a beeper for one week in rotation. Is on-call and ready to respond to staff shortages by calling and locating a replacement and/or filling the shift themselves.
• Inspects and handles belongings and valuables of residents to ensure that prohibited material is not brought into the Lodge at admission, upon return from pass, or as clinically indicated, under the direction of a Shift Leader.
• Assists residents with daily living activities (i.e., waking up, hygiene, cleaning room, participating in structure, behaving appropriately on activity).
• Provides input to administration members regarding unit-based PI measures based on concerns, high-risk, high-volume issues.
• Ensures that paperwork is completed accurately and within procedural time limits.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Qualifications

HMH is committed to pay equity and transparency for our team members. The posted rate of pay in this job posting is a reasonable good-faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting in accordance with the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act and does not reflect the full value of our market-competitive total rewards package.

Pay

• Minimum rate of $22.50 hourly.
• Some jobs may be eligible for performance-based incentives, bonuses, or commissions not reflected in the starting rate.
• Certain positions may also be eligible for shift differentials for work performed on evening, night, or weekend shifts.

Benefits

In addition to our compensation for full-time and part-time (20+ hours/week) job positions, HMH offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Paid leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Retirement benefits.