Residential Specialist Jobs

Description: RESIDENTIAL SPECIALISTADULT RESIDENTIAL WAGE: $20.00 - $22.00 per hour DOE/DEQCompetitive Benefits PackageHELPING PEOPLE LIVE INDEPENDENT LIVESAre you looking for more than a job?

AWARE’s Program Residential Specialist is an intermediate position between Direct Care Staff (DCS) and the Program Manager. The Program Residential Specialist is expected to fulfill all duties with an extraordinary degree of skill, dependability, competence, and consistency. In other words, as the Program Residential Specialist, the successful applicant is expected to serve as the best possible example and mentor to team members.

AWARE’s Program Residential Specialist will be required to perform a variety of duties including, but not limited to, participation in outing planning, transportation, monitoring staff compliance with policies, procedures, training expectations, and protocols, assisting in the investigation of accident, injury or other incidents requiring employee interviews and the preparation of statements, training on treatment principals, including Behavioral Interventions, and generally assisting the Program Manager as needed and requested. The Program Residential Specialist will be among the first to be considered in the event of future openings of leadership positions; although, AWARE makes no commitment for future advancement and staff are not promised nor guaranteed transfers and/or promotions.

Requirements

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Ability to, under AWARE’s Unconditional Care Philosophy, implement individual support plans with the knowledge of behavioral techniques, interventions, skill building techniques, and understanding of the emotional and behavioral needs of individuals diagnosed a developmental disability.

Requires computer literacy skills, including the ability to navigate, record, and overall basic computer skills needed for performance-based software as well as an electronic medical records system.

The Program Specialist must have the interpersonal oral and written communications skills to work as a team member, to make observations and to report them accurately, to learn resident care methods, and to follow oral and written instructions.

Education Requirements

At least three (3) years of experience is required and/or an associate degree in a Human Services field or minimum of a bachelor’s degree in any field and minimum of two years of appropriate and related experience in Human Services.