Social Service Assistant - Looking Glass Community Services

As the RCC Social Service Assistant, you will schedule, coordinate, and supervise group activities at the RCC program. You will maintain consistency and safety among clients, observe and record behavior patterns, aid in service planning, and document necessary behaviors. You will help clients with skill-building and providing directions in performing daily housekeeping duties, chores, physical activity, recreation, hygiene, and school work. You will complete crisis intervention and de-escalate clients daily utilizing the crisis intervention techniques learned during training.

For more information about the RCC Social Service Assistant position, you can download the full job description below.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
1.Maintains therapeutic milieu by: implementing activities and skill building groups, developing treatment focused plans, maintaining safety, supervision, and security.
2.Monitors residents' behavior and conduct and intervenes based on program guidelines.
3.Frequently perform crisis intervention trained restraints in accordance to program policy; ensuring client health and safety.
4.Co-facilities group counseling and group skill building activities.
5.Assist treatment leadership in developing service plans and behavior support plans

RCC, or the Regional Crisis Center, is a PRTS/subacute residential facility where youth are placed directly from the Department of Human Services. RCC provides on-site residential living facilities, mental health treatment, family counseling, substance use disorders treatment, and academic instruction and education. RCC clients often display acute behaviors and have multiple cognitive or behavioral challenges. RCC uses verbal de-escalation tactics as well as seclusion rooms and full-body restraints, when necessary, to ensure the safety of our clients.

Eligible for a QMHA certification through MHACBO is preferred. You must have prior experience working with combative at-risk youth, preferably in a residential setting. The ability to maintain strong professional boundaries and confidentiality is a must. You must also be able to pass crisis intervention training within your first month of employment.

Our workforce and clientele represent a diverse set of people from all walks of life. As such, we are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion in the agency. All staff must embody and represent these, and other, Looking Glass agency values.

In compliance with applicable laws and licensing requirements, Looking Glass Human Resources Department conducts a background check on all new employees, non-paid staff (volunteers and interns), and existing staff as required. This is completed by the Background Check Unit with the State of Oregon per the Oregon Administrative Rules.

For more information on your responsibilities and obligations with a background check that is processed by the DHS Background Check Unit, please refer to the ORCHARDS background check system on their government website.