Resident Assistant P&I

Rate of Pay: $23.69

Shift: Thursday-Monday 2pm-10:30pm

Eligible Benefits

• 11 Paid Holidays
• 5 Additional Paid Days: 3 Self-Care, 1 Birthday, 1 Personal Holiday
• Generous PTO policy and Sabbatical
• Employer Paid Medical, Life Insurance, Short Term Disability and Employee Assistance Program
• Voluntary Dental, Vision, FSA, Long Term Disability, Critical Illness, Accident Coverage, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance
• 5% Retirement Match with no waiting period 
• Annual bonus program
• Annual professional development allotment
• Mileage reimbursement at federal rate for work related travel
• Inclusive workplace culture
• Bilingual wage differential 

Job Summary

The Resident Assistant will be responsible for assisting with the mid- shift hours of operations of the Preparation house, housing up to 12 community members accessing short-term transitional housing. This program offers short-term transitional housing and services for community members accessing recovery support services across the tri-county area. The Resident Assistant will provide building coverage and assistance to residents, track housing activities, coordinate needs with peer providers, regularly interact with program participants and collaborate with the team on the progress of such participants.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Greets and directs participants, documents participant interactions, and provides information and updates to the team.
• Serves a diverse population effectively, providing support and basic resource information to participants, regularly interacting and relationship building, as appropriate.
• Performs random, observed and as-needed urine drug screenings.
• Conducts periodic inspections of all areas in the building, including participant common areas, to monitor building and participants.
• Reports maintenance issues, coordinates household chores and cleans common area, and support with meal preparation as assigned.
• Logs events/incidents using factual and observation-based documentation.
• Mediates conflict, de-escalates events and responds to crisis situations in accordance with BTC policy.
• Provides access to medication lockers. Reports and documents medication related activities.
• Supports external partner and participant meetings, day center activities and after hour recreation activities, per the calendar of events. Prepares meeting space for external partners, as assigned.
• Facilitates classes and skill groups, as assigned.
• Maintains accurate and timely reports and documentation including routine computer input. Generates reports, create correspondence, and manages filing and other administrative tasks, as assigned.
• Abides by organization policies and procedures, confidentiality laws, professional boundaries, peer support principles and relevant federal/state treatment regulations and standards.
• Participates in supervision and meetings, as assigned. 

Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

The following are the minimum levels required to successfully perform the Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities.

• Food Handlers card, within 30 days of hire.
• Demonstrated success at working effectively in a diverse, collaborative team environment, with skills in promoting inclusion and cultural responsiveness
• Experience in collaborating with community partners to identify shortcomings in the organization and in building partnerships to improve outcomes
• Experience working with communities of color and knowledge of the current disparities that certain communities of service users may face more broadly in society, required
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