Youth Residential Support Specialist

Shift Details

• 24/7/365

• This position works days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.

• Shifts rotate.

Key Essential Functions and Accountabilities of the Job

• Using the Teaching Family Model, provide behavioral health interventions and teach skill development including effective communication, positive social interaction, problem solving, decision making, and anger management to families, individual clients and groups as defined in the treatment plans.

• Maintain consistent program and activity structure. Provide therapeutic limits.

• Demonstrate effective problem-solving skills and good active listening.

• Use approved strategies to prevent aggressive behavior and to deescalate volatile situations.

• Demonstrate basic understanding of co-occurring disorders and the interrelationship of substance abuse and mental health.

• Utilize teaching techniques and interventions according to the Teaching Family Model and other common treatment modalities and effectively engage the clients within the treatment process.

• Understand, utilize, teach and implement motivational systems.

• Plan, supervise and document daily activities that meet therapeutic goals.

• Provide ongoing monitoring and interventions to ensure client safety and immediately inform supervisor of any crisis or unsafe situation.

• Document daily progress notes in a timely manner, which meet agency standards and state and federal regulations.

• Must be able to engage in moderate physical recreational activities that support recovery.

• Establish and engage in professional collaboration within SEARHC and relevant community entities.

• Other duties as assigned to meet program, clinic, departmental and organizational goals.

• Shifts are 24/7. This includes days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• Qualified Addiction Professional (QAP) certification or ability to obtain within 3 years of hire. All training for the QAP certification process will be provided and funded by SEARHC.

• Must achieve the Teaching Family Certification within 1 year of hire (RSS working solely overnight shifts are exempt from this requirement.)

• Basic Life Support (BLS) within 45 days of hire. Training will be provided.

• First Aid within 45 days of hire. Training will be provided.

• Current and valid state of Alaska Driver’s License.

• Must be at least 21 years of age.