Spring Lake Ranch Therapeutic Community

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Program Coordinators serve as mentors to help residents of Spring Lake Ranch in their recovery by providing live-in support, structure, and guidance to residents through informal contact, house activities, and work crew activities to create a positive environment and comfortable home-like atmosphere. Program Coordinators help residents by modelling a health, stable lifestyle.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION

HOUSE COORDINATING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide live-in support, structure, and guidance to residents through informal contact and house activities to create a positive environment and comfortable home-like atmosphere.
• Assume various roles such as mentor, guide, and advocate to support the recovery, wellbeing, and community experience for residents.
• Develop/apply interpersonal skills on on-going basis including: flexibility, empathy, patience, effective communication, careful listening, limit setting, and firm personal boundaries.
• Assist residents with housecleaning and bedroom cleaning.
• Ensure that there is adequate coverage and support available to residents in their houses at all times.
• Help with urgent emotional support and crisis intervention as needed.
• Respectfully wake up individuals who would otherwise be late for morning meds and morning meeting.
• Run at least one house program for the residents in their shared house each month.
• Run weekly house meetings.

CREW LEADING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Foster residents’ sense of personal growth, meaningful contribution, and social belonging through positive work crew interactions and experiences.
• Ensure safety through worksite hazard management, proper tool/machinery technique, and following of procedures and policies.
• Communicate with residents’ teams regarding concerns observed on crew, including nonattendance.
• Contribute to weekly work program notes.
• Balance individual resident needs/challenges with task productivity.
• Encourage/teach new skills and appropriately challenge residents to develop the self confidence that comes from accomplishing a task.
• Assist co-workers in getting the crew together and starting work on time.
• Cleaning up the work area and putting tools away after each work crew.
• Coordinate and plan with work program leaders to develop projects and work plan.

RECREATION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Run fun activities during evenings and weekends.
• Do dishes with residents after meals.
• Drive residents to work, appointments, etc. as needed.
• Med room duties as assigned.

COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Demonstrates an understanding and commitment to the SLR Mission, Vision and Core Values.
• Maintain respectful, therapeutic, and supportive relationships with Spring Lake Ranch at all times.
• Maintain resident/client privacy by keeping personal information confidential in accordance with federal HIPAA legislation and Spring Lake Ranch policies and procedures.
• Willing to draw upon own personal talents, interests, and passions to develop special programming for the community and develop relationship with individuals.
• Participate in holidays and other Ranch special events throughout the year.
• Attend weekly staff and department meetings and staff development opportunities, meeting the licensing training requirements for position.
• Crisis intervention and assistance as needed.
• Other duties as requested.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Desire to live and work with many different kinds of people in a diverse community setting.
• Ability to establish and maintain firm personal/professional boundaries in a therapeutic community setting.
• Previous experience working outdoors and in mental health and/or substance abuse recovery preferred.
• Ability to participate in physical work and physical activity in all possible outdoor weather conditions, activities may include of outdoor work/active games/sports and moderate lifting/carrying of up to 40 lbs.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and collaboratively as part of team.
• Ability to accept supervision and feedback
• Strong interpersonal skills and flexibility.
• Respect for others, compassion, patience.
• Willingness to learn and to try new things.
• Good judgment, responsibility, dependability.
• Enthusiasm, energy, initiative.
• Limit-setting and conflict resolution skills.
• Driver’s license and good driving record.