Clinical Aides

St. Joseph's Addiction Treatment and Recovery Centers

Location: Inpatient Facility - Saranac Lake, NY

Positions: Full-time Clinical Aides

Shifts/Schedules Available:

• Tuesday-Saturday, 2:00pm-10:00pm


• Monday-Friday, 7:00am- 3:30pm

Pay Range: $15.50/hour to $22.00/hour

Position Summary: The Clinical Aide I works under the supervision of the Clinical Aide Coordinator/Designee. Responsible for assisting residents to become accustomed to the residential routine and encourages them to participate in social and recreational activities to promote recovery. Monitors the residential milieu for attendance and accountability purposes.

Education and Training: High school graduate or equivalency. It is preferred that candidates hold a valid NYS driver’s license and be able to be insured by an insurance carrier.

Experienced Work Knowledge: Experience/training with working effectively with individuals challenged with substance use disorder and co-occurring disorders.

Physical Demands: No Extraordinary physical demands.

Essential Duties:

• Orients new residents to the facility, local surroundings, and resident guidebook.


• Helps residents to adjust to community living without the use of alcohol/drugs.


• Monitors assigned programmatic activities and provides assistance to residents/staff as necessary.


• Prepares a written observational report on attitudes, behaviors, and pertinent events and inputs into agency documentation systems (EHR, Yammer, etc.).


• Provides assistance to residents concerning growth and sobriety issues.


• Performs additional duties which help to ensure the quality of the resident services provided by the center as required by the Clinical Aide Coordinator/designee.


• May be designated to train new Clinical Aide I candidates.


• May Interview residents upon admission and complete the resident’s admission and admission packet.


• May assist in driving residents within the community.


• Performs resident searches on the person and facility when assigned.


• Responsible for resident rounds making sure all residents are accounted for.


• Reports activity to the treatment team.


• Supervise and document UDS/ Breathalyzer screens.


• May perform other duties as assigned.