Looking Glass is hiring Social Service Assistants for various shifts at our Regional Crisis Centers!
SSAs schedules, coordinates, and supervises recreational and other group activities. Additionally provides input in the planning of program activities, maintain consistency and safety among clients, observe and record behavior patterns to aid in counseling and or service planning for clients, and document both positive and negative behavior patterns; provides leadership and direction to resident clients in performing daily housekeeping duties, chores, physical activity, recreation, hygiene, school work etc.; gives practical advice and counsel to clients in order to assist in developing skills.
For more information about the RCC Social Service Assistant position, you can download the full job description below.
RCC, or the Regional Crisis Center, is a subacute residential facility where youth are placed directly from the Department of Human Services. RCC provides residential living facilities, mental health treatment, family counseling, substance use disorders treatment, and academic instruction to clients. RCC clients are often combative and have multiple mental or behavioral challenges. RCC uses verbal de-escalation tactics as well as treatments such as seclusion rooms and full-body restraints when necessary to ensure the safety of our clients.
Eligible for a QMHA certification is preferred. You must have prior experience working with combative at-risk youth, preferably in a residential setting OR experience working in a challenging, high-paced environment that can be applicable to this line of work. 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. The Regional Crisis Center uses specific manual restraints as specified by the state, and the ability to perform these restraints is essential to the position.
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.