UCAN is seeking a Residential Treatment Specialist to provide direct service to children and adolescents with behavioral and emotional disorders in a residential setting, addressing their daily living, social skills, behavior management, and crisis intervention needs.
Requirements
- Uses knowledge of child development and childhood disorders, when intervening with residents.
- Utilizes available programs, resources, and materials to meet the needs of the residents.
- Appropriately and consistently implements behavior management interventions.
- Will be trained in the monitoring of physical vital signs such as blood pressure, respiration, temperature, and heart rate; Subsequently will be expected to periodically perform such monitoring on the residents as needed.
- Will be trained in the use of an intoximeter. Subsequently will be expected to periodically perform such monitoring of the residents as needed.
- Will be trained in the procedure for administering a urine toxicology screen; Subsequently will be expected to perform such screening on the residents as needed.
- Experience or ability to use computers for data entry, communication and report writing.
Responsibilities
- Supervises and monitors the whereabouts and activities of all assigned residents during the scheduled shift of a 24-hour day.
- Manages the behavior of residents through use of approved behavioral management interventions and works with residents toward the accomplishment of treatment goals.
- Implements individual behavior management plans for residents on the dorm through a teamwork approach and makes suggestions to the team based on observations and interactions with the residents.
- Supervises and monitors the resident’s self-administration of medication.
- Maintains the program records and daily logs, as well as appropriate internal documentation and computer data entry, using Profile.
- Correctly completes daily routine management (Service Plans, Medicaid logs, etc.)
- Communicates all critical incidents to the team on a timely basis.
Other
- The position requires general supervision of residents, teaching appropriate daily living and social skills, implementation of the daily schedule, behavior management, crisis intervention, group work, implementation of recreational activities, report writing and records management, and overseeing all aspects of daily living for the residents.
- The RTS is expected to role model how to work cooperatively with their co-workers.
- They are also expected to conduct themselves in a professional, ethical, and therapeutic manner always with residents, resident family members, co-workers, and individuals from outside UCAN.
- Provides transportation for residents as needed and within program guidelines.
- Must be able to work as a team member.
