Agency:
Legacy Treatment Services
Program:
Brian Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
Location:
Lumberton, New Jersey
Position:
Residential Counselor
Contact:
Delilah Lewis, Program Director, dlewis@legacytreatment.org
Duties:
T Brian Crisis Stabilization and Assessment program serves children and youth who have Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Through assessment and therapeutic, behavioral and medical interventions, a multidisciplinary team works to stabilize each youth and help them transition back to their families or to a lower level of care. This structured program includes education and/or vocational training, community involvement, nursing, life skills and social skills training. Therapy is provided to both the youth and their family.
The Residential Counselor will assist in providing a safe environment and positive residential treatment program within the residence. Assist in maintaining a positive, strength-based, developmentally appropriate therapeutic environment that is in keeping with the values and clinical treatment philosophy of Legacy Treatment Services.
- Keep vision of Consumers in home setting or as assigned
- Participate in therapeutically designed home and recreational activities
- Adhere to all Agency policies and procedures, licensing and accreditation standards
- Attend all required house, program and Agency meetings
- Provide all necessary documentation of Consumer behavior and interventions attempted, using approved Legacy format
- Participate as an active member of the Treatment Team
- Actively engages in all pre crisis and crisis interventions seeking to establish a positive outcome.
- Participate in quality improvement activities, including incident/accident/grievance review, peer record review, satisfaction surveys, program evaluation and quality improvement projects at the program level
- Participate in the house behavior modification system