Job description

Mental Health Residential Advisor; Crossroads Long Term Structured Residence; Connellsville, PA
We are looking for a mission driven individual that genuinely has the heart and the passion to provide quality care for 16 residents in a trauma informed, psychiatric residential care setting. Our program offers a collaborative team approach with all the resources needed to do your best work.
Our comprehensive recovery-oriented approach offers our employees a job with diversity within a progressive and creative environment.
Crossroads LTSR provides intensive and transitional care to assist residents with empowering opportunities to apply their acquired skills in learning to meet their own needs by seeking out supports and follow through with physical and mental wellness treatments. Residents are encouraged and supported in developing the natural resources and wellness plans to be successful after discharge.

The services we offer include:

• Individual Therapy and Group Therapy
• Creative expressive arts and music therapies
• Weekly psychiatric evaluation
• Medication management and medication education
• Access to medical services and physical fitness activities.
• Assistance and life skill development for activities of daily living
• Provide psycho-educational supports with access to technology and social media.
• Enhance social skill development and conflict resolution.
• Facilitate recreational and therapeutic activities with access to an onsite physical fitness room.
• Intensive case management services to assist in obtaining needed resources, make referrals and appointments while establishing continuity of care, securing housing and discharge planning.

The Residential Advisor I, II, or III position provides a full range of counseling and case management services to adults living with mental illness.

Duties/Responsibilities: The following list indicates the general responsibilities of work performed by this position. It does not list a comprehensive inventory of all tasks required.

The Mental Health Residential Support Advisor is a direct care position that will provide and ensure a comfortable, safe, secure, supportive, and therapeutic environment for the residents of Crossroads LTSR while also promoting and implementing the principles of mental health recovery in a trauma informed manner.
The Mental Health Residential Support Advisor additionally provides telephone crisis-intervention services for all ages of consumers who request or require services.

• Our program understand that a positive work culture is essential to have and retain a healthy working treatment team with room to grow and develop.
• Our program offers flexible schedules for students, certification education, internships, and supervision hours needed to obtain your LPC and or ATR-BC credential post graduate work.
• Meals are provided on site.
• CRCSI offers an impressive medical dental vision benefit package.
• Employer paid long term disability.
• Employer paid life insurance.
• CRCSI provides a 401k agency match without vesting.
• Ample paid time off; Paid holidays and paid sick time.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Education: Have a high school diploma or equivalency (GED) and 12 semester credit hours in sociology, gerontology, or other social science, or a bachelor's degree in a human service field
Experience: 2 years of experience in public or private human services with 1 year of mental health direct care experience.
Certification: Ability to obtain and maintain CPR, First Aid, Infection Control, Fire Safety and Crisis Prevention and Intervention and other certifications required for employment.

Compliance: Ability to comply with Client’s Right, CRCSI’s policy and procedures. Ability to read, writes, and speak the English language comply with Act 33, Act 34, and FBI clearance procedures. Be able to comply with pre-employment and biennial physicals, and with tuberculosis and hepatitis screenings.

Other Requirements: Basic computer skills. Have a valid driver’s license with the ability to legally transport members.

Chestnut Ridge Counseling Services, Inc. (CRCSI) offers a wide variety of benefits to include but are not limited to: Highmark Medical Insurance with a low premium cost for employees, Highmark Dental Insurance with no cost to the employee, Highmark Vision Insurance with a low premium cost to the employee, a Long-Term Disability Policy, Life Insurance, and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Policy at no cost to the employee. CRCSI also offers a generous 5% 401k employer match after six months of employment.

Chestnut Ridge Counseling Services Inc. is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type based upon race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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