About Us
Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love—and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.
Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.
Responsibilities
The primary purpose of this role is to provide supervision for our clients and to ensure their safety while building a rapport with them. This includes:
- Providing assistance to each client in working with a group and handling individual problems.
- Setting limits for behavior and creating documentation of the client’s progress.
- Identifying the possible need for professional services and communicating findings to professional staff.
- Contributing to the care and upkeep of the environment of care.
Essential Duties:
- Be aware of where all assigned residents are and what they are doing at all times.
- Ensure client safety by using verbal de-escalation methods to redirect client behaviors and prevent/respond to crisis.
- Facilitate the residential daily schedule, including participating in and providing support to residents during activities.
- Complete daily shift notes for individual clients.
- Communicate with house/pod treatment teams about individual client concerns.
- Supervise self-administration of resident medications per physician orders.
- Provide transportation to residents for community outings and meetings.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Bachelor’s degree in psychology, counseling, or sociology preferred.
- Prior work experience in behavioral health treatment settings with young adults is a plus.
- Must have a valid driver’s license and be eligible for insurance coverage for driving the company’s vehicles.
- Must become CPI and CPR certified within the first 30 days.
Salary Range: $17.00 - $22.12 an hr based on education and experience.
Benefits include:
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Company paid life insurance
- Voluntary STD/LTD
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- 401k
- PTO/Sick
Physical Demands
The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee must have the ability to walk, sit, stand, bend, lift and move constantly during working hours.
Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.
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