Job Duties Responsibilities:

The Clinical Assistant (CA) is responsible for ensuring the individual care, safety, and supervision of the resident who resides at Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center (Stonewater.) The CA ensures each resident’s personal needs are met in accordance with the Stonewater Policies and Procedures and all state regulations and the care, cleanliness, maintenance, and safety of the treatment facilities including outside the property as needed or directed.

a. Be punctual in reporting for scheduled shifts, notifying the supervisor when emergencies or other factors may influence work attendance, early departure, or punctuality. At no time may the CA leave or fail to attend his/her scheduled shift without prior verbal approval from the supervisor.

b. Be flexible and available to work any and all shifts as assigned.

c. Participate in equipping, encouraging, and empowering each resident to be and do all they were created to do while helping them to understand that they were created on purpose, for a purpose.

d. Be responsible for developing a healthy relationship with each resident, whether individually or as a group.

e. Handle incidents, crises, perceived dangers, runaways, and/or conflicts in a professional and loving manner. Notify all emergency personnel and necessary staff members in crises and complete all necessary paperwork related to incidents in a thorough and timely manner.

f. Assist, supervise, and document the self-administration of patient medication.

g. Provide residents with skill training as needed in the maintenance of a clean, safe and healthy environment.

h. Plan, supervise, and clean up daily meals and snacks that occur during scheduled shifts as needed.

i. Be aware of approved and needed items for the entire Stonewater residence including, such as food, pantry, personal hygiene, laundry, bedroom, and bathroom items.

j. Supervise and provide life-skill training in such duties as washing/folding clothes, bed making, ironing clothes, choosing outfits appropriate for occasions and seasons, setting a dinner table, table manners, as directed by the Clinical Director.

k.Teach appropriate conflict management resolution skills and relational boundaries.

l. Provide/receive Shift Exchange Handoff Report to debrief events that occurred during the shift. Example topics: resident trades, issues or concerns, new or discontinued orders, admissions and discharges, room assignments, etc.

m. Encourage compliance with the Stonewater expectations and policies for all residents, staff, and volunteers, address conflicts and concerns directly with staff in a professional, loving, and confidential manner. Consistently seek to maintain unity and cohesion and respect of all members of the program, staff, residents, and volunteers.

n. Ensure daily documentation is complete, including staff communication logs, resident daily logs, case notes, incident reports, medication files, and resident phone logs.

o. Attend all staff meetings as directed, including meetings while off-duty.

p. Transport residents to appointments, outings, and family visitations as directed by the Director of Nursing and Clinical Therapist.

Educational/Professional Qualifications:

a. High school diploma or GED.

b. Must demonstrate an ability to effectively communicate to patients dealing with mental health and substance use disorders, be flexible in work hours and demonstrate consistency and dependability.

c. Valid Driver’s License with seven years of driving experience.

d. Clean DMV record.

e. Proof of current, effective driver’s insurance.

f. Child Abuse Registry clearance.

g. Fingerprint/DOJ clearance.

h. Health and TB clearance.

i. Time management skills with the ability to multitask.

j. Other duties as assigned.

Personal Qualifications:

a. A passion to see individuals with mental health and substance use disorders experience healing, life change, and purposeful living, and believe that change can happen under the conditions defined in the Stonewater Vision Mission and Core Values Statement.

b. Good physical health and emotional maturity.

c. Ability to work with the patient population within state regulations, policies, and procedures even if regulations/policies conflict with personal beliefs.

d. Flexibility in work hours, programs, and services.

e. Ability to uphold the Stonewater Vision Mission and Core Values Statement.

f. Ability to work with patients/staff/volunteers who have varying faith backgrounds.

g. Experience in working as part of a team.

h. Good communication skills.

i. Access to reliable transportation.

j. Must be able to self-initiate activities/tasks.

 Expectations:

a. Have a commitment to keeping the facility clean at all times.

b. Learn and utilize conflict management skills and de-escalation techniques.

c. Have the ability to fill out checklists and fulfill assigned tasks.

d. Prepare all required reports and ensure all documentation is accurate and processed in a timely and appropriate manner.

e. Monitor patients’ physical condition and report any medical needs to the nurse to assure proper attention and documentation.

f. Properly document and administer medication.

g. Participate in staff meetings, in-service training, and online training.

h. Make quality improvement a priority of day-to-day operations.

i. Be involved in providing feedback on Performance and Quality Improvement (PQI) data.