DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Supports residents growth in independence through community integration and relationship building through individual care plan intervention and execution with tasks including but not limited to skill building, activity scheduling, basic life skills • Engages residents in a therapeutic and meaningful manner that is not overtly clinical, by face-to-face conversations and shared activities respecting the concept of home as safe haven, and always treating residents with the utmost dignity and respect • Seeks to find and understand the drivers and motivators of the residents behavior, along with the interdisciplinary care team, in order to foster community integration, relationship building, and increased independence • Engages with residents to creatively motivate them with tasks including but not limited to vocational training, continuing education, volunteering, art and fitness activities • Nurtures residents and provides counseling through the process of recovery using evidence-based practices; engages with residents through conversation and shared activities • Completes all appropriate documentation set forth by management and applicable accreditation and licensing entities including progress and shift notes, monthly summaries, and medication administration recording and resident behavioral/psychiatric assessments • Documents and administers (if indicated) medications to residents as directed by the ordering provider following successful completion of Department of Human Services (DHS) - approved medication administration training and certification • Interfaces with families of residents and other involved parties in a friendly, engaging and supportive manner thereby promoting collaboration and clearly recognizing the family as an integral part of the residents care team • Assists residents with planning, scheduling, and the facilitation of resident house meetings • Supports Care Managers with the following: • Communicates with residents medical providers, psychiatrist, and pharmacist; transfers verbal and written orders into the medical administration record; assists with coordinating care as necessary • Communicates with the appropriate ancillary service providers such as clinical therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, and occupational therapy based on care plan and physicians orders; assists with coordinating care as necessary • Navigates the external provider community and community-at-large effectively for therapeutic, vocational, and recreational supports for the resident thereby promoting community integration and relationship building • Assists and trains residents in all aspects of self-care in order to ensure the maximal level of independence for that resident, including but not limited to all aspects of personal hygiene, shopping, cooking, meal serving, budgeting, laundry and housekeeping • Ensures a safe and clean living environment for residents through adherence to activities of daily living outlined in residents care plan • Assists residents with transportation planning to and from day programs, appointments, recreational and work activities • Intervenes in crisis situations using methodology trained in safe crisis management and in adherence with resident care plan • Addresses resident and house matters requiring immediate attention; acts with a sense of urgency • Encourages residents in the constructive use of leisure time by engaging the resident in activities based on the residents care plan • Performs daily maintenance, cleaning and kitchen duties such as assists in preparing bedrooms for new residents, cleaning and maintaining the kitchen and dining areas, daily upkeep and cleaning of common and office areas, assist with serving resident meals as needed • Attends appropriate in-service and scheduled staff meetings as directed by supervisor • Participates as a member of the interdisciplinary care team by providing verbal and written daily reports of assigned residents; observes and makes written entries in the shift reports, log books and progress notes as directed • Conducts fire drills and building inspections based on 55 Pa. We offer: • Generous Paid Time Off • Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefit Packages • Earned Wage Access/On-Demand Pay • Paid On-the-Job Training • Tuition Reimbursement • Career Advancement Opportunities and Growth • Flexible Schedules • Retirement Savings Plan.