Job Description
Job Title: Mental Health Worker/ Residential Aide (4pm- 12am)
Organizational Unit: Women of Hope- Vine (Housing and Homeless Services)
Major Responsibilities: Provides Safe Environment for Residents while attending to personal care needs of the women.
Supervised by: Case Manager Supervisor
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Communicates regularly between shifts, receiving report from the shift before and giving the report to the shift coming in; reads follow up book.
- Completes evening shift notes, logs on each resident, smokers' alert sheet and writes entries in the follow up book as needed.
- Prepares, serves and cleans up from the super meal; snack time.
- Assists the women with the daily laundry schedule.
- Assists in the distribution of medications when approved by the Case Manager Supervisor.
- Performs personal care needs for the women.
- Coordinates evening volunteers.
- Makes hourly rounds.
- Coordinates evening activities.
- Executes fire drills when scheduled.
- Answers phone and door
- Handles emergencies
- Attends staff meetings and makes use of in-service opportunities, particularly those needed to comply with PCH licensing.
- Assists in any assignment deemed necessary by the supervisor or by the Program Director.
Representative Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- High school graduate/ GED
- Holds or is willing to obtain a current Safe Food Handling Certificate
- Holds or is willing to obtain a current certification in CPR and First Aid
- Has desire, interest and ability to work well with others including residents with severe and persistent mental illness who have been homeless.
- Flexible, hospitable
- Has completed the Direct Care Staff Person Training Course/ Test online and has submitted the certificate; has or will complete the state's med administration training and WOH training in order to be qualified to distribute medications.
