PRTF Residential Advisor

Job Overview

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated PRTF Residential Advisor to join our team in providing exceptional care and support to residents in our facility. The ideal candidate will have experience in a residential setting and will be committed to upholding resident rights while fostering a safe and nurturing atmosphere. This role is essential in ensuring the well-being of our residents.

• Provide direct care services (basic needs) to male children or adolescents.
• Instruct and supervise consumers in various settings, including the community, to develop self-control and social, educational, communicational and vocational skills, and document service delivery.
• Assess and monitor a consumer’s progress and psychiatric/emotional stability.
• Maintain composure in intense situations that may arise when challenging behaviors occur and effectively calm consumers through verbal non-aggressive techniques or protective non-aggressive interventions.
• Assist in the daily operations of the home, including activities and housekeeping.
• Provide mental health and substance abuse education and support to consumers and families.
• Provide intensified structure and supervision to consumers at all times.
• Provide healthy adult role models.
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation of need for services, services provided and service outcomes for all assigned clinical cases and services provided and service outcomes for all.

• Attend and participate in scheduled administrative staff meetings.
• Maintain and enhance clinical skills through professional readings and attendance at recommended training events.
• Other activities that relate to job duties.

URGENTLY HIRING FOR 2ND SHIFT

• High School diploma or GED.
• 1 yr experience working with children/adolescents with MH/SA issues required and/or combination of experience, skills and competencies that is equivalent.
• Applicants 25 years of age and older preferred.

Salary:
Depends on Experience; experience and other factors determine higher rate of pay.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $24,960-$32,448

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Holidays
• Night shift
• On call
• Overnight shift
• Overtime
• Rotating weekends

CHTF program provides a specialized therapeutic residential treatment setting for males, so they can improve their functioning and transition to a less restrictive community placement or when possible, to their own family of origin or another family setting. CHTF goals are to decrease:
Unsteady emotions, impulsivity, relationship difficulties, and confusion about one’s self.