Hh Shift Support

Communicare is a community mental health center in North Central Mississippi that serves Calhoun, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate and Yalobusha counties. Communicare offers specialized treatment services for adults with serious mental illness, children with serious emotional disturbances, individuals with substance abuse disorders and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Communicare is currently seeking a Shift Support for the Haven House in Oxford, MS.

Responsibilities for Shift Support include the following:

• Assist Support Services Supervisor in general activities of the program.
• Provide direct care and supervision to residents.
• Be responsible for access to community resources.
• Facilitate recreational activities, including transporting residents as appropriate.
• Dispense medications as prescribed.
• Help insure safe living environment for all residents.
• Assist with management of unstructured time.
• Help enforce program guidelines.
• Secure appropriate medical treatment in cases of emergency.
• Keep records as assigned, such as behavior reports.
• Supervise and assist residents with daily living skills as needed, such as, but not limited to cooking, laundry, and chores.
• Perform monthly fire drills.
• Serve as liaison between residents and needed services.
• Fill in for other staff as needed and assigned by the Coordinator.
• Communicate with guardians and family members regarding residents as needed under the direction of a supervisor.
• Screen and monitor all visitors to the facility.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Man facility phone service and handle referral of all emergency calls to appropriate Communicare crisis staff.

Because we are the people who care, Communicare offers the following benefits for full-time Direct Service Worker’s:

• Medical Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Life/AD&D/Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Dental/Vision/Term Life/Cancer coverage available
• Retirement Plan
• 403-B
• 403-B matching
• 11 Holidays per year
• 15 Annual Leave days per year (18 days after 3 years of employment)
• 15 Sick Leave per year
• Professional Development leave
• Jury leave
• Military leave

Qualifications:

• High school or equivalent.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to relate positively to Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation clients and their families.
• Valid Mississippi driver’s license, personal auto liability insurance, and insurable driving record (if required - discretionary)
• Acceptable criminal background check.