OneFifteen is a not-for-profit healthcare ecosystem dedicated to the full and sustained recovery of people suffering from drug addiction. OneFifteen has developed a tech-enabled system of care that offers a treatment center, rehabilitation housing, and wrap-around services, all on one state-of-the-art campus. OneFifteen deploys a learning healthcare system to advance our understanding of addiction medicine and the best strategies to promote sustained recovery. Our ultimate goal is to support individuals to live healthy, fulfilling lives free of addiction. As such, we will focus on a patient-centered experience and ensure a patient’s whole health needs are fully met, including biopsychosocial needs.

The Residential Specialist will collaborate with other clinical team members to provide best-practice care with an innovative spirit and help drive a holistic approach to care and reduce stigma. At the same time, the RS will be comfortable working in ambiguous situations and blend best-in-class care delivery models with advanced technology solutions to engage care team members, improve outcomes, and reduce costs. 

The Residential Specialist is a member of the larger OneFifteen team and provides services for those experiencing substance use and/or co-occurring mental health and substance use. The RS  provides direct and indirect patient care to include  comfort to patients and ensures a safe, clean environment. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Deliver substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health support within an adult residential setting.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify participant behaviors that require intervention.
• Escort participants when leaving the residential unit for activities, meals, visitation, and scheduled tests as required by their level of care.
• Perform participant safety checks at scheduled times and documents appropriately.
• Orient participants to services when entering treatment 
• Participate in treatment team meetings. Communicate appropriately and clearly to the treatment team including supervisors and other direct care staff. 
• Perform observation rounds and documents appropriately.
• Provide appropriate assistance during emergencies.
• Encourage or assist participants to perform daily living activities.
• Facilitate participant rules and responsibilities.
• Assist in the orientation of new staff members as needed.
• Assist with skills and recreational groups as directed
• Provide one-on-one observation and constant visual observation for high-risk participants.
• Record data track reports accurately and completely.
• Assist with urine drug screen collection.
• Support proper discharge planning and linkage to additional resources as needed.
• Assure documentation is completed per regulatory and agency requirements following best practices.
• Complete documentation within a specified timeframe using Electronic Medical Records.
• Attend required meetings, including individual and group supervision, treatment team meetings, training, and community events as appropriate. 
• Establish relationships and communicate with stakeholders and referral sources. 
• Understand and adhere to HIPAA and 42 CFR laws. 
• Other duties as assigned.

• Knowledge and experience in substance use and mental health treatment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; strong teamwork and organization/time management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent computer skills, which include documentation within an electronic health record. 
• Participate in a work culture that influences others in the multidisciplinary team.

Minimum: 

• High school diploma or GED

Preferred:

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Recreational Therapy, or other appropriate therapeutic field.
• CDCA certification preferred.
• Training and knowledge of detoxification services, such as Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for opioids and other drugs.
• Availability to work overtime, weekends, holidays, and flexible hours as needed.

• Work Setting: Indoors, environmentally controlled
• Body Positioning: §  Spend time sitting and standing, making repetitive motions, spend time using hands to handle, control ,or feel objects, tools ,or controls. Frequently lift or move up to 10 lbs. and occasionally lift or move up to 50 lbs.
• Communication: Contact with others, electronic mail, in-person discussions, public speaking, telephone, video

The above duties and responsibilities may be essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodations. All job requirements listed include the minimum knowledge, skills, and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be constructed as an exhausted statement of duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Employees may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.

OneFifteen is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination in employment, training, job duties, compensation, evaluation, promotion, and any other term or condition of employment based on race, ethnicity, age, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental handicap, developmental disability, genetic information, human immunodeficiency virus status, or in any manner prohibited by local, state or federal laws.