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Residential Advisor

Our residential care center helps patients learn age-appropriate social, emotional and intellectual behaviors. The residential advisor plays an important role in that process. Developing programs that meet the needs of patients and their families. Teaching and nurturing social skills. Leading directed activities to create a positive environment. These are just some of the important tasks performed by our residential advisors.

With 12 ministries and access points across Indiana and Illinois, Franciscan Health is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the Midwest. Franciscan Health takes pride in hiring coworkers that provide compassionate, comprehensive care for our patients and the communities we serve.

What You Can Expect:

• Coordinate and draft employee shift schedules, ensuring adequate staffing coverage is available at all times.
• Notify the manager of any physician, staff, patient, family, or interdepartmental conflicts, as well as immediate notification of safety issues.
• De-escalate situations involving agitated or aggressive residents to prevent behavioral-based safety hazards using established principles in de-escalation, including potential therapeutic holds.
• Interpret and facilitate interaction amongst group members to encourage trust, feelings of mutual support, greater self-awareness and personal growth.
• Closely monitor and adhere to patient/resident treatment plans in the delivery of care.
• Employ adaptive counseling techniques to ensure that all residents are provided with services within a context of cultural and intellectual understanding and competence.
• Monitor and assess changes in the tone and quality of the therapeutic milieu, and address potential concerns that threaten residents' optimal safety, healing, and supportive environment.
• Coordinate Residential Advisor assignments.
• Successfully pass Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI).

Qualifications:

• Required Bachelor's Degree Social Service
• Required Bachelor's Degree Psychology, social work or related field
• 2 years Social Services Preferred

Travel is required: Never or Rarely

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Franciscan Alliance to provide equal employment to its employees and qualified applicants for employment as otherwise required by an applicable local, state or Federal law. Franciscan Alliance reserves a Right of Conscience objection in the event local, state or Federal ordinances that violate its values and the free exercise of its religious rights. Franciscan Alliance is committed to equal employment opportunity.