Habilitation Technician-Summer Temp

Company: AWARE
Location: Missoula
Posted on: May 27, 2023

Job Description:

Job Type
Temporary
Description
Habilitation Technician-Summer Temp
WAGE: $15.00 - $17.00/per hour
Competitive Benefits Package
HELPING PEOPLE LIVE INDEPENDENT LIVES
Are you looking for more than a job?
Are you the healthcare champion we've been looking for?
AWARE is looking for the right person to join the Missoula Community team as a Summer Temp Habilitation Technician.
If you embrace new ideas with a heart full of energy, we invite you to join a caring, compassionate, and fully engaged team that isn't afraid to get vulnerable with one another. We have gritty, but respectful conversations that drive the needle forward on what it means to provide the highest quality of care for our clients. At AWARE, our strength lies in our culture of care.
AWARE's Unconditional Care Principles inspire the services we provide to each person who comes to us for care and these principles lead how we treat ourselves and our clients; with hope, compassion and focus on the next right step. When you join the AWARE team, you will become part of an organization that has a rich history (over 45 years!) helping Montanans with mental health and/or developmental disabilities.
AWARE strives to provide the highest quality of care, every single day. When you join the AWARE team, you will be joining a team that believes that building on strengths is the key to success, that prides itself in taking on and sticking with the hardest challenges, believes we are agents of change, that everything is normal until proven otherwise, and that families are our most important resource. Working for our organization means that regardless of your role, we'll support you so you can support others. AWARE seeks to provide opportunities for employees to grow professionally through its tuition advancement program, professional development opportunities and in-house trainings.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
While under direct supervision of the designated supervisor, performs routine duties for the protection, care, and supervision of adolescents. Administer assessment instruments and assist in the development of training programs for persons with mental health disabilities, with the goal of achieving maximum independence. This beginning level technician focuses on assisting in training programs that centers on basic living skills, independent living skills, vocational skills, and academic skills, utilizing AWARE's Wraparound philosophy.
Requirements
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM:

• Ability to, under AWARE's Unconditional Care Philosophy, implement individual support plans with the knowledge of behavioral techniques, interventions, skill building techniques, and understanding of the emotional and behavioral needs of individuals diagnosed a developmental disability.
• Requires computer literacy skills, including the ability to navigate, record, and overall basic computer skills needed for performance-based software as well as an electronic medical records system.
• The HT must have the interpersonal oral and written communications skills to work as a team member, to make observations and to report them accurately, to learn resident care methods, and to follow oral and written instructions.
• A High School Diploma or HSE is required, along with past employment experience.
  EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:
  It is the policy of AWARE, Inc. to not discriminate in employment or employment opportunities based upon race, color, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, religion, creed, sex, or political beliefs. It is also the policy of AWARE, Inc. to not retaliate or allow, condone, or encourage others to retaliate against any applicant, employee, or past employee for opposing unlawful discriminatory practices, filing a discrimination complaint and/or testifying or participating in another manner in a discrimination proceeding.

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