Residential Care Specialist - PRN - As Needed

Job Description

Job Description

Are you looking for flexible PRN, as-needed, work? Picking up extra shifts a couple times a month?

The Residential Care Specialist provides direct care to the children in the residential treatment program by providing a safe therapeutic home-like setting in a positive, consistent, and structured environment. This includes mental health support and documentation based on service goals and plans for each client.

What you'll do – Child Treatment & Development:

• Administers therapeutic treatment to the clients under supervision.
• Plans, provides, and supervises the daily activities to build self-esteem and appropriate peer interaction for each client.
• Medication administration, meal preparation and grocery shopping as needed, daily documentation and team work.
• Responsible for planning and documenting visits and/or telephone calls (under guidance by Supervisors and the Program Manager) and following each client’s visitation/telephone schedule.
• Ensures client’s needs for special services are addressed with program leadership
• Ensure that all areas of the cottage are adequately cleaned.
• Facilitates activities that are developmentally appropriate, and trauma informed.
• Oversee cleanliness and order of campus and buildings.

Administrative & Training

• Attends and completes training program designed to teach crisis prevention, intervention, and safety.
• Attends other in-service training as required including medication administration.
• Must have the ability to read and interpret documents and write routine reports and correspondence..

Education/Experience

• This entry-level position requires a high school diploma, GED, or associate degree with preferably a minimum of two years of population specific experience working with children ages 12-17 with emotional difficulties.
• Position requires driving agency vehicles as well as transporting clients. A valid NC driver’s license, at least three years of driving with a driver’s license and clean driving record are required.
• Must have the ability to respond effectively within and cope with an environment that can be extremely stressful on the mind and body.
• All potential job candidates must pass a drug screening test and an extensive background check.

Physical Requirements :

Will frequently perform a wide variety of physical tasks such as standing, walking, running, stooping, bending, climbing stairs, and lifting of individuals, which requires strength, coordination, endurance, and agility. In addition, there may be occasional contact with hostile individuals, and incumbents may be subjected to physical and verbal abuse while restraining children and adolescents. The employee must maintain sufficient physical agility and stamina to intervene with violent, unruly, or uncooperative children and adolescents and must be able to exert the minimum necessary strength to restrain and subdue the youth. The employee must be agile enough to control and rapidly extricate him/herself and children and adolescents from buildings in case of an emergency. The employee must be capable of running a distance as required in the prevention of a client absconding. Persons with any medical problems such as joint problems, obesity, arthritis, or cardiopulmonary conditions, where it would be unwise or not possible to engage in moderate physical exertion should not be considered.