Position/Title: Mental Health Residential Advisor

Hourly Rate: From $15.00-$17.23 (based on education and related experience)

Position Type: Full-time

Work Schedule: Saturday-Wednesday,12am-8am

Location: Homestead, PA

Devereux/TCV Community Services is Hiring for a Full-time MH Residential Advisor for its Diversion and Acute Stabilization (DAS) Program!

As a DAS Residential Advisor, you will be a member of a team providing 24-hour support to adults with serious and persistent mental illnesses by providing opportunities for community integration, quality care, support, and training based on the Recovery Model. We are looking for people who believe in a strengths-based approach and use positive practices to help guide their everyday activities. All required on the job training and education will be provided by TCV. The Residential Advisor position is designed to:

• Teach activities of daily living to consumers in a residential setting. These include but are not limited to: shopping, cooking, maintenance of living quarters, hygiene, and appropriate dress and daily coping skills.
• Provide Crisis Prevention and Intervention.
• Facilitate the planning of social and recreational activities as well as consumer groups inside the program or out in the community (i.e. AA/NA meetings).
• Provides transportation and/or accompanies individuals to recreation, shopping, and community awareness activities.
• Provide accurate medication monitoring which includes counting medications and observing consumer intake of prescribed medication.

Keywords: Mental Health Residential Advisor, DAS Program Residential Advisor, Acute Stabilization Residential Advisor, Crisis Stabilization Residential Worker, Acute Mental Health Residential Program

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Prior experience working in social services with adults who have drug and alcohol, forensic, and/or mental health issues preferred.
• Act 33/34, Child Abuse, and FBI Fingerprinting Clearances required.
• New Hire and 24 hours of Annual Training, required.

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

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