Lead Residential Counselor; Brain Injury

The Lead Residential Counselor BID supports management in its administrative role to ensure a high quality service environment. He/she assumes the responsibilities of shift lead staff to ensure supports are delivered as designed. Provides individual and group support to persons served in their home, teaches skills to enhance independence and self-advocacy, and supports choices that contribute to living a good and meaningful life.

Ensures a safe, secure, and clean residential environment. Assists individuals in becoming full participants in their communities, develops and maintains friendships, and strengthens family engagement and partnerships.

• Assists individuals in the home in becoming fully integrated into their communities and developing and maintaining friendships.
• Assists individuals in accessing community-based support and resources.
• Plans recreational and social activities that promote social inclusion and the emotional well-being of individuals in support of living a good life.
• Empowers and supports individuals in the home to make choices, be a self-advocate, and be fully involved in making decisions in determining the directions of their supports and lives.
• Supports individuals in the home with access to assistive technology and adaptive equipment as a means to augment communication, access their communities, and generally live more independently.
• Supports individuals in securing, maintaining and growing work, volunteer and other community engagement opportunities.
• Provides training and support to individuals in the home, including rehabilitative interventions, behavioral interventions and monitoring, fire & safety regulations, appointment scheduling, money management, ADLs, grocery shopping, meal planning, cooking, household chores, use of generic resources and related areas.
• Performs hands-on tasks in the program to implement support plans and provides transportation as necessary.
• Assesses the physical and emotional status of individuals, reports changes to supervisor, monitors individual funds and maintains records including behavior and academic data, progress notes and communication logs.
• Procures, stores, administers, documents, and disposes of medication consistent with MAP requirements, funding source regulations, and company policy.
• Communicates with nursing staff, case managers, Visiting Nurses Association, and other interested parties.
• Participates in mandated training and staff meetings, assists with orientation of new staff, and ensures compliance with internal and external regulatory policies, procedures and standards.
• Maintains home safety and maintenance, including housekeeping, snow shovelling and trash removal.
• Complies with corporate and divisional policies including safe work practices, workers’ compensation, universal precautions, exposure control.
• Completes paperwork and logs, provides shift coverage as necessary, ensures required shift staff to individual ratio is maintained.
• Functions as human rights advocate, provides physical intervention and/or first aid in emergencies, reports to the Disabled Persons Protections Commission.
• Functions as the designated shift lead, managing staff assignments and clinical programming.
• Provides administrative support to the Program Director, scheduling staff assignments, training new staff, and overseeing clinical paperwork.
• Assists in developing, implementing, and documenting treatment, including ISP/PSTPs and clinical programs.

We are committed to you! We offer great training, great benefits, career growth and job security!

• A fully funded, employer-sponsored retirement plan with no employee contribution and an employee-funded 403(b) plan.
• First-rate Medical, Dental and Vision plans for employees scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more, plus generous employer contribution toward medical insurance costs.
• Employer-paid Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment and Long-Term Disability insurance (no cost to you!).
• Employer-paid Short-Term Disability Insurance and option to purchase additional voluntary short-term disability insurance.
• Flexible Spending Reimbursement Accounts (Health and Dependent care).
• Voluntary Term, Whole Life, Accident and Critical Care insurance.
• Generous paid time off (employees scheduled to work 20 hours or more per week):
  • 15 days of Vacation per year
  • 11 Paid Holidays
  • 10 Sick Days per year
  • 3 Personal Days per year
• Educational Assistance and Remission Programs.
• $500 Employee Referral Bonus with no annual cap!
• Other generous benefits including discounted YMCA memberships, access to discounted movie tickets and more.

Established in 1977, Vinfen is a nonprofit, health and human services organization and a leading provider of community-based services to individuals with mental health conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injuries and behavioral health challenges. Our services and advocacy promote the recovery, resiliency, habilitation and self-determination of the people we serve.…