Aide - Residential - Augusta, United States - Skywood Recovery

Skywood Recovery

Verified Company

Augusta, United States

3 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Responsibilities:

Skywood Recovery Center is a residential treatment facility offering integrated treatment for addiction and mental health conditions. Skywood Recovery provides individual and group therapy, experiential therapy, equine and art therapy, and yoga.

Located in Augusta, MI, a convenient drive from Kalamazoo and Lansing, MI, the campus offers a restorative environment with opportunity to enjoy the outdoors.

Skywood is part of one the nation's largest and most respected hospital management companies, Universal Health Services, Inc.

UHS is one of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc.

has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, our annual revenues were $11.4 billion in 2019.

In 2020, UHS was again recognized as one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune; in 2019, ranked #293 on the Fortune 500; and in 2017, listed #275 in Forbes inaugural ranking of America's Top 500 Public Companies.

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has more than 90,000 employees and through its subsidiaries operates 26 acute care hospitals, 328 behavioral health facilities, 42 outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located in 37 U.S.

states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

Qualifications:
The Residential Assistant monitors and provides care for patients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Ensures orientation of new patients immediately upon admission.
Conducts psychoeducational groups with patients.
Provides empathic, supportive approach to all patient interactions by acting as a sounding board for the individual, ensuring confrontation is not used.
Utilizes motivational interviewing and patientcentered techniques when assisting patients. Employs deescalation techniques.
Ensures program schedule is maintained.
Completes room checks, safety checks and patient supervision checks as required.
Maintains work area cleanliness, assist patients to develop appropriate cleaning skills by role modeling. Directly performs daily living maintenance responsibilities.
Obtains all medications from consumer at intake and secures according to policy.
Utilizes local crisis response plan in case of emergency psychiatric emergency (i.e. suicidal/homicidal ideation or threats).
Performs all other duties as required or assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Ability to consistently demonstrate through conduct and communications the stability required to effectively assist patients and their family members through the FRN Model of Treatment.
Must have high level of interpersonal skills. Position continually requires demonstrated poise, professionalism, tact and diplomacy.
Understanding of diverse cultures and gender specific issues and the ability to incorporate needs of gender and culturally diverse groups into the organization.
Understands need for and maintains appropriate confidentiality at all times when interacting with patients, residents, families, visitors, referral sources and all other contacts.

Education and Experience

High School diploma or GED required.
Minimum 1 year experience working with dually diagnosed individuals preferred.
CPR certification (or willing to obtain CPR training and certification).

Benefit Highlights

Challenging and rewarding work environment
Career development opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries
Competitive Compensation
Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan
401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
Generous Paid Time Off
Free Basic Life Insurance
Pickup Bonus
Student Loan Reimbursement
Tuition Assistance

UHS is a registered trademark of UHS of Delaware, Inc., the management company for Universal Health Services, Inc. and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal Health Services, Inc. Universal Health Services, Inc. is a holding company and operates through its subsidiaries including its management company, UHS of Delaware, Inc. All healthcare and management operations are conducted by subsidiaries of Universal Health Services, Inc.

To the extent any reference to "UHS or UHS facilities" on this website including any statements, articles or other publications contained herein relates to our healthcare or management operations it is referring to Universal Health Services' subsidiaries including UHS of Delaware.

Further, the terms "we," "us," "our" or "the company" in such context similarly refer to the operations of Universal Health Services' subsidiaries including UHS of Delaware.

Any employment referenced in this website is not with Universal Health Services, Inc. but solely with one of its subsidiaries including but not limited to UHS of Delaware, Inc.

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