Youth Residential Support Specialist

$25 - $30/Yr

Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium - Juneau, AK

Full-time

Juneau, AK

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

About the position

SEARHC is a non-profit health consortium which serves the health interests of the residents of Southeast Alaska. We see our employees as our strongest assets. It is our priority to further their development and our organization by aiding in their professional advancement. Working at SEARHC is more than a job, it's a fulfilling career. We offer generous benefits, including retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health, dental, and vision benefits, life insurance and long and short-term disability, and more.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Qualified Addiction Professional (QAP) certification or ability to obtain within 3 years of hire.
• Must achieve the Teaching Family Certification within 1 year of hire.
• Basic Life Support (BLS).
• Current and valid state of Alaska Driver's License.
• Must be at least 21 years of age.

Nice-to-haves

• Preferred - 1 year of experience working with emotionally and/or behaviorally disturbed youth.

Benefits

• Generous benefits including retirement.
• Paid time off.
• Paid parental leave.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Life insurance.
• Long and short-term disability.