Per-diem Residential Aides

St. Joseph's Addiction Treatment and Recovery Centers

Location: Inpatient Facility - Saranac Lake, NY

Position available: Per-diem Residential Aide

Shift/schedule: As Needed

Pay Range: $16.00/hour to $22.00/hour

Position Summary: Works under the direction of the RN/Health Coordinator. They assist residents in becoming accustomed to the residence routine and encourage them to participate in social and recreational activities to promote recovery.

Education and Training: High school graduate or equivalent.

Experience and Work Knowledge: Working effectively with chemically dependent individuals.

Essential Duties:

• Orients new residents to the facility and helps the individual to adjust to community living without the use of alcohol/drugs.


• Assist with monitoring of facility to ascertain residents’ activities and general status of facility.


• Initiate appropriate action to ensure safety, wellbeing of residents’ and facility as required.


• Schedule outside medical appointments as needed.


• Assist as needed with medical portion of admissions to the facility.


• Monitor residents while receiving MAT treatments in the medical department.


• Check any identified resident in need of monitoring because of physical and/or emotional difficulties. Initiate appropriate action as assessment indicates. Document findings in the clinical log.


• Available to offer counseling (crisis intervention only) to residents, as needed and documents sessions in staff log and reports to supervisor.


• Completes all resident’s incident/accident or medical emergency forms as required.


• Answers Phones.


• Meets regularly with RN/Health Coordinator for supervision as per policy.


• Responsible for additional duties as may be assigned by RN/Health Coordinator.