Job Description
Job Description: Transition Life Coach Time commitment: Part-time 24-32 hours per week, potential for full-time Reports to: Anthem Director Job Status: Non-exempt An Anthem House advocate directs all of the students on their shift while managing all the activities in the home.
Duties and Responsibilities: - Fulfill a role with the students as a proxy parent
- Teach and enforce boundaries and expectations with students
- Attend to each student's needs while challenging and supporting them
- Set limits for students and teach more effective ways
- Intervene in unsafe or inappropriate behavior
- Act upon all opportunities to teach and connect with students
- Learn the "trust, but verify" method when working with students
- Create a successful, healthy home environment for teenagers and guard against threats such as fraternity or college dorm feel
- Become a guardian of excessive use of media/inactivity
- Assure time and resources are spent on the most clinically helpful activities for the boys
- Teach the proper cleanliness and organizational standards of a healthy home
- Communicate and ask questions with the primary therapist frequently
Life Coach Role - Work with therapists to ensure each student moving to Anthem is prepared to come
- Understand the rules and expectations and have established goals and schedules to fit each student's needs
- Teach students effective methods for goal setting and follow up
- Teach the students effective methods for organization, cleaning habits and maintenance of their responsibilities in the house
- Communicate with parents weekly by phone
- In phone calls follow appropriate guidelines in addressing topics of a therapeutic nature
- Avoid discussions and topics of a clinical nature by referring parents and students to their primary therapist
- Communicate effectively and timely with parents, treatment team members and students under my stewardship
- Anticipate the needs of the students, forecast, and help them to prepare for life events
- Work with students to understand my role as a life coach and foster buy in with the student by helping him begin with the end in mind
- Seek supervision and other resources to build my competency to that of best practices
- Produce a clear and concise residential report during treatment team
Charting - Follow charting expectations for BIRP charting
- Create thorough and prompt incident reports
- Understand the incident report guidelines
- Follow the medication administration expectations as described in the medication certification training
- Follow notification protocols listed in Notifying Nursing Department document ? Trained in medication administration as per Telos' policies and procedures
- Administer medications as ordered by the doctor / nursing manager
- Communicate and report to program director
- Complete residential certifications and classes such as CPR, First Aid, Processing Training, TB Tests, Restraint Training, etc.
- Chart in each student's medical record on the HQ database
- Maintain a safe, positive environment in the home at all times
- Strive to model the Anthem team after a functional, highly structured family home
Requirements
Qualifications: - Minimum 1 year of experience in behavioral health related fields
- Exceptional relationship skills
- Flexibility and ability to handle many situations simultaneously
- Ability to maintain healthy boundaries with students
- Timely
- Dependable and reliable
- Ability to receive and carry out instruction
- Genuine care and concern for others
Salary Description
$17.00/hour Telos
Job Tags
Full time, Part time, Shift work,