Resident Advisor, Markus Gardens YAA

Description

• Provides hands-on support and training with daily living skills: planning and preparing nutritious meals, maintaining living space, personal hygiene, budgeting and money management – including banking and paying bills.
• Regularly assess and trains participants to care for their health and hygiene and maintain their living space.
• Monitors and documents client self-administration of medication, according to program policy and procedures.
• Conducts regular apartment inspections, and oversees maintenance of apartments, inventories furniture, and alerts director of maintenance problems.
• Upholds tenant obligations as per Resident Agreement and Rider, informing the director of any issues.
• Assist in leading groups and recreational activities
• Administers standardized health screening tools
• Alerts supervisor on duty to incidents, regressions and high risk behaviors.
• Provides empathy and individualized support to program participants, as needed.
• Assists participants with conflict resolution.
• Documents services delivered, response to service and significant events, incidents, regressions and high risk behaviors.
• Trains participants in safety procedures and conducts fire drills and self- preservation tests.
• Attends trainings as requested by supervisory personnel.
• Duties as assigned by supervisor.

Requirements

High school diploma or G.E.D. Bachelors preferred. Progressively responsible work history. Experience with persons with mental illness/addictive disorders preferred. Experience as a graduate of foster care or residential treatment, a plus. 

Part-Time Hourly Salary: $23.65

Please include a resume, cover letter and contact information for 3 professional references.

ACMH is committed to the mental and physical wellbeing of vulnerable New Yorkers and is a leader in the provision of outreach and engagement, care management, rehabilitation, crisis support, and supportive housing. ACMH is committed to becoming an anti-racist organization and seeks to promote actionable change to create an intentional culture of equity at individual, interpersonal and institutional levels.

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ACMH is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment decisions based on race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, mental or physical disability, marital status, veteran status or citizenship status.