Residential Counseor 16/24 hour shifts

Full-Time

Description

 

·      Provide a safe, home-like atmosphere for children in the program.
·      Work within program policy and guidelines to provide program services.
·      Support routines of children through assisting and supervising wake-up, bedtime, personal care routines, meals, meal preparation, recreational activities, homework, supervision and assistance, etc.
·      Identify needs and arrange for care of those needs.
·      Transport, when necessary to school, family visits and appointments.
·      Care for program facilities, equipment
·      Supervise children’s visits with families
·      Initiate recreational and program activities
·      Document observation of children and assess children’s skills and moods.

Minimum Requirements

 

·      Bachelors Degree Required.
·      General knowledge of complex behavioral disorders in children and of mental health service system delivery.
·      General knowledge of medications used to treat mental illness, their usefulness and side effects.
·      Skill in managing and supporting children with complex behavioral disorders and managing and assessing crisis situations.
·      Skill in teaching activities of daily living and life skills; reinforcing rules.
·      Skill in recording data accurately and in writing narrative reports.
·      Driver’s license required.




Community Health Resources
995 Day Hill Road
Windsor, CT 06095
Fax: 860-731-5535
Email: hr@chrhealth.org


We are an Equal Opportunity Employer