Description
Geneva Center - Resident Advisor
Reports to: Lead Supervisor
Time Commitment: 30-40 hours per week
Status: Hourly, Non-Exempt, At-Will Employee
Pay: Starting $17.50 - $22 an hour, based on training, education, and experience
Young people struggling with depression, anxiety, and trauma come to Telos from across the world to find help and healing. As a Mentor or Residential Advisor you will befriend, inspire, teach, and supervise the clients who live here. You will learn to help young people struggling with mental health challenges implement therapeutic tools in their lives. Duties include:
- Primarily responsible for the safety and supervision of students
- Assists with resolution of conflict between students
- Carries out milieu-based interventions from the student plan
- Transportation of students
- Communication and charting observations and interactions to the clinical chart
- First aid response
- Utilizing consultant pattern and relationship continuum
- Assists with medication administration
- Ability to maintain healthy boundaries with our students.
Requirements
ABILITIES
The employee must have:
- Exceptional customer service skills
- Mental flexibility
- The ability to handle constructive feedback
- Tolerance for a fast-paced, constantly changing work environment
QUALIFICATIONS
- Exceptional relationship skills and genuine care and concern for others.
- Work history that supports they are prompt and timely, dependable and reliable.
- A tolerant, supportive view of the LGBTQ community.
- Must have the ability to hold appropriate boundaries.
- Must have the ability to receive and carry out instruction.
- Experience working with youth or young adults in the behavioral health field (preferred but not required)
- Experience as a Mentor/Resident Advisor (preferred but not required)
- Experience in a residential treatment center (preferred but not required)