Residential Assistant (Relief & Secondary)

This is a relief position working 20 or fewer hours per week.

Are you a team player, flexible, and have a desire to work with individuals during a critical time in their recovery from mental health or substance use disorders? BRBH is hiring for a Residential Assistant!

Schedule: The hours are flexible according to needs of the unit. It is a 24/7 program so needs could be for any of the three shifts: 7am-3pm, 3pm-11pm, 11pm-7am.

Hiring Rate: $17/hour. This position is eligible for 11% shift differential.

The Residential Assistant is responsible for monitoring client behavior on the Crisis Stabilization/Detox unit, assisting with rounds and reporting any abnormal findings to nurse on duty.

In This Role, You Will Be Responsible For

• assisting with admissions and discharges
• answering the phone
• completing and recording vital signs
• assisting clients to groups and meals
• providing client transportation as needed
• completing medication pick-up
• assisting in the kitchen as needed
• responsibility for overall cleanliness of the unit including sanitizing beds, changing linens, mopping floors, emptying trash, sanitizing bathrooms
• monitoring client safety via 30 and 15 minute rounds
  
  

Qualifications

• Education: High School Graduate or GED.
• Safe driving record: This position requires being eligible to drive agency vehicles, so candidate must have an active, unrestricted driver's license with a good driving record (no more than two moving violations in the last three years and no criminal violations in the last five years).
• Experience working directly with individuals with mental illness or substance use disorders is a plus!
• Background Check: Candidates will be required to complete a fingerprint criminal background check and drug screen.
• Physical requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee will often sit, stand, walk, bend, stoop, crawl and reach above their head. Use of hands for placing and pulling objects. The employee frequently lifts and or carries up to 50 pounds and pushes or pulls up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (driving). Specific hearing required by this job includes normal tones.
• Certification in CPR and First Aid will be required, training is provided after hire.
  
  

About Our Crisis Stabilization And Detox Unit

Our unit provides short-term (3 to 15 day), in-patient stabilization for individuals who have symptoms of mental illness that could, if not addressed, result in a need for hospitalization. This service also offers medically supervised detoxification from alcohol and other drugs. Those needing both detoxification and support for symptoms of mental illness are served. Services are provided in a recovery-oriented environment, and include skills training, psychiatric care, 12-step recovery groups on-site, and discharge planning to assure continuity of care in transitioning to outpatient services.

About Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare (BRBH)

BRBH is one of forty Community Services Boards established under the Code of Virginia to provide comprehensive services for individuals who have mental health disorders, developmental disability, or substance use disorders. We are charged also with continuously monitoring and evaluating our services to ensure their cost effectiveness and applicability to current citizen needs. BRBH operates multiple programs throughout the Roanoke Valley with over 400 employees working to provide or support our services. We are proud to have served our community for over 50 years. Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare maintains a drug-free workplace and equal opportunity employment. This position is located in Roanoke, VA.

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