Chemical Dependency Technician Job at Catholic Health Initiatives, Grand Island, NE

  • Catholic Health Initiatives
  • Grand Island, NE

Job Description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Chemical Dependency staff, you will provide coverage for the Residential Unit during day, evening, and overnight shifts, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for clients in the absence of counseling staff. You will perform a range of basic responsibilities to ensure the care, comfort, and safety of adolescent, adult, and geriatric clients, including taking vital signs, documenting client activities, and supervising medications and treatments.

Every day, you will offer consistent oversight and guidance, responding to any immediate client needs and administering simple first aid as necessary. You will maintain thorough documentation of shift activities, perform regular checks on client whereabouts, and collaborate with other team members to ensure continuity of care and adherence to appropriate protocols.

To be successful in your role, you will demonstrate empathy, reliability, and strong attention to detail, qualities vital to meeting the diverse needs of your client population. By maintaining clear communication with both clients and your interdisciplinary team, you will contribute to a supportive and effective treatment environment where clients’ well-being remains the top priority.

  • Establishes and maintains effective therapeutic relationships with clients and/or families and significant others who are experiencing a variety of complex substance abuse problems and r/t issues.

  • Responsible for residential unit during evening, overnight, and weekend hours. Documents regular client activities and any otherwise unusual circumstances that occur during their shift. Responsible to provide a “shift change” verbal and computer report to incoming staff so that critical occurrences may be dealt with during the next day or following shift.

  • Provides supervision of the clients and moves around and surveys the unit to locate all clients and update incoming staff.

  • Prepares admission packets, takes inventory, and prepares information to be sent out to clients, families, and/or referral sources as directed by the multi-disciplinary team. Performs certain amount of cleaning duties. Periodically responsible to explain admission information to clients recently admitted; explaining client’s rights, rules and guidelines, program operations, tour of the facility, and other pertinent orientation information. Documents orientation information. Instructs clients and family members on fire procedures and emergency exits and tornado procedures.

  • Takes client vital signs, checks client height/weight, supervises medication/treatments and basic first aide, checks client rooms and general facility for cleanliness, and generally monitors clients to insure they are following specified treatment plans.

  • Assists primary counselors in evaluating the extent of substance abuse and/or dependency of the client, which involves basic listening and reporting skills in order to document and relay information gained to the multi-disciplinary team.

Job Requirements

Required

  • High School or GED. Ability to perform simple arithmetic calculations in order to take and record vital signs as normally acquired through completion of high school and Approximately one month experience in order to gain knowledge of client care methods, policies and procedures, techniques and schedules, upon hire

  • Familiarity and understanding of Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, and other 12 Step Recovery Programs, upon hire

  • Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and

  • Medication Aide: NE, within 6 - months

Where You'll Work

CHI Health St. Francis was established in Grand Island, Neb. in 1887. Today, our hospital is a regional referral center, with more than 100 physicians and more than 1,100 team members working together to build a healthier community. Our goal is to provide patients with high-quality medical care close to home, where they can be supported by their family, friends, and community.

Pay Range

$15.67 - $22.14 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Job Tags

Immediate start, Shift work, Night shift, Weekend work, Day shift, Afternoon shift

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