Overnight Brain Injury Support Specialist
Job Description
Description
$1500 Sign-On Bonus
A unique opportunity to join a newly formed team of professionals to start up a new services for individuals with brain injuries. Eliot's programs provides a person centered innovative supports and services to adults with brain injuries. Our programs are designed to meet the individual needs of each person we serve that enriches and enhances their lives.
Eliot offers an array of restorative skill building activities and supports for adults with Acquired Brain Injuries. Our Adult Day Services Program and Adult Residential Programs provide a full spectrum of services to rebuild communication proficiency, social & behavioral skills, self help abilities, and management of daily life activities.
Responsibilities:
- Be alert and responsive to the needs of individuals if required
- Provide support and training in the areas identified within the I.S.P. to promote personal growth and accomplishment (may include assistance with personal care and hygiene, as required).
- Administer medication according to MAP regulations
- Perform housekeeping tasks as necessary.
- Report all maintenance and safety issues to supervisor.
- Report significant health, psychiatric and behavioral issues to Program Manager
- Attend and participate in meetings and trainings
- Support individuals with a variety of medical, physical, cognitive, and socioemotional needs in completing daily activities including but not limited to ADLs, laundry, meal preparation, cleaning, leisure activity, etc.
- Actively engage individuals in enriching activities that promote skill building and independence.
Schedules: Mon-Weds, 11pm - 9am (30hrs)
Thur & Fri, 11pm - 9am (20hrs)
*Eliot mandates COVID-19 vaccinations for employees, please discuss the requirements with the hiring manager during the interview process.
Qualifications
Skills
Preferred
Administrative Tasks
Intermediate
Computer Software Skills
Intermediate
Experience with population
Intermediate
Communication Skills
Advanced
Education
Required
High School or better.
Experience
Required
Experience with this population 6 months
Licenses & Certifications
Required
MA DRIVER'S LICENSE
Preferred
Certified Nursing Asst
Company Description
Eliot has been delivering state of the art, evidence-based programming for more than fifty years. Using a person-centered, family-driven approach, we believe strongly in partnering with the communities we serve. Our programs collaborate with one another, utilizing the expertise within the agency to provide the highest standard of quality services to our clients, their families, to the community, and to our funding sources. This commitment to collaboration fuels our strategy to employ a consumer centered approach to service delivery to meet the individual needs of our clients. Our approach fuses community resources, funding resources and our vast array of services to ensure that the high quality programs bring hope to those we serve.
Our continuum of services includes twenty-four hour psychiatric emergency services and crisis stabilization, individual, group, and family outpatient counseling, addiction services, in-home therapy, therapeutic mentoring, and early intervention services for children, and community outreach and case management to individuals with mental illness. We oversee residential programs for young children and adolescents in the custody of the Department of Children and Families, residential treatment programs for youth mandated by the Department of Youth Services, and residential, day, social and vocational programs for adults with mental illness, brain injury and developmental disabilities. Eliot also provides outreach, community support and case management to homeless individuals throughout the Commonwealth.
Eliot is funded and serves individuals referred by Managed Medicaid Organizations, Commercial Insurers, the Massachusetts Departments of Children and Families, Developmental Disabilities, Public Health, Mental Health, Youth Services, and the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission.
Recommended Skills
- Housekeeping
- Maintenance
- Self Motivation
- Well Being And Personal Care
- Psychiatry
- Cooking