Schedule: 10p-8a, days depend on location
Reports to: Awake Overnight Supervisor and/or Program Director
Summary: Responsible for service delivery to the students in accordance with program goals and each students' Individual Treatment Plan. Connection with students is our primary means to gain understanding, compassion, and forge treatment progress. Providing meaningful and life-relevant programming with engages youth is our primary means of facilitating a positive program culture and making treatment progress possible for our students.
Awake Overnight Responsibilities - Assist second shift faculty in the completion of bedtime routine
- Seek information pertinent to students' acute issue which may affect the overnight
- Conduct fifteen minute bed-checks with compassion and in accordance with policy
- Provide floating crisis support to students engaging in unsafe behaviors
Encourage student success and engage students- Practices 100% supervision of students
- Celebrate student successes, reinforce positive behavior, and encourage growth from adversity
- Engage and connect with students as a compassionate and understanding professional
- Gain TCI certification, and practice TCI principles.
- Utilize an understanding of ARC to provide a framework for student success
- Manage students' crisis with compassion and understanding, seeking positive outcomes
Facilitate the residential routine with intention and thoughtful planning.- Attend work with punctuality, and manage time effectively
- Participate in pre-shift meetings
- Plan and execute life-relevant and meaningful programming
- Internalize daily schedule, show understanding of programmatic rituals and routines
- Encourage and teach students to engage in stewardship of their environment and themselves
Understand and apply knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and mental health in the execution of the program's residential treatment model.- Learn and understand the effect of trauma, medical, psychological, and other risk factors
- Participate in the program's residential treatment model
- Seek student specific information through ITPs, training, and assessments
- Practice negotiation, cooperation, and collaboration with students towards the program's goals
Professionally document service delivery and behavior-related incidents in a timely manner- Chore logs, and community-specific documentation
- Incident Reports, FYIs, Pro-Socials
- Administrator On-Duty Reports
- ICMP & Strengths-Based Tracking Sheets
- Color Tracking
- Residential Milieu Notes
- Weekly and Monthly reports as required by the program
- Actively gain understanding of the importance of accurate and timely documentation
Act as a professional, and seek professional improvement- Manage personal stress effectively by regulation of personal agitation levels
- Establish rapport with students while maintaining professional boundaries
- Intentionally seek supervision, mentorship, and professional development
- Connect the program's policies to day-to-day operations and personal decision making
Mount Prospect Academy (MPA) assures equal opportunity and public access and, if necessary, affirmative action in all its policies regarding employment and provision of services. MPA does not discriminate in its hiring, programs or policies on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.