Job Description
Are you a team player, flexible, and have experience with individuals with mental illness or substance abuse disorders? BRBH is hiring for a Residential Assistant!
The Residential Assistant is responsible for monitoring client behavior on the Crisis Stabilization/Detox unit, assisting with rounds and reporting any abnormal findings to nurse on duty.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
* assisting with admissions and discharges
* answering telephones
* completing and recording vital signs
* assisting clients to groups and meals
* providing client transportation as needed
* completing medication pick-up
* assisting in the kitchen as needed
* other duties include responsibility for overall cleanliness of the unit including sanitizing beds, changing linens, mopping floors, emptying trash, sanitizing bathrooms
The Full Time shifts available include day, afternoon, and evening. The PRN schedule is evenings and weekends.
Pay Rate: $15.708/hour. This position is eligible for 11% shift differential.
Additional Information
Minimum Requirements: * Education: High School Graduate or GED * Experience working directly with individuals with mental illness or substance disorders is a plus! * Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee will often sit, stand, walk, bend, stoop, crawl and reach above their head. Use of hands for placing and pulling objects. The employee frequently lifts and or carries up to 50 pounds and pushes or pulls up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (driving). Specific hearing required by this job includes normal tones. * Certification/Licenses: CPR and First Aid will be required, training is provided after hire. * Safe Driving Record: Candidates must have a valid Virginia driver's license with a safe driving record (no more than two moving violations in the last three years and no criminal violations in the last five years). * Background Check: Candidates will be required to submit to a fingerprint criminal background check and drug screen. Why work at BRBH? * Gain experience: In this job each day you work with individuals with different diagnosis, symptoms, and medical needs. * Great co-workers: Staff work hard and support each other in a team atmosphere. * Work/Life Balance: We have a great Paid Time Off policy - 29 days annually, which starts accruing on your first day. * We offer great benefits, including VRS (Virginia Retirement System)! Click here for more information: http://www.brbh.o
Compensation and Hours
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