What We’re Looking For:

Rock Creek Foundation is seeking a Full-Time Personal Support Services Counselor to join our team in Silver Spring, MD. As a Personal Support Services Counselor, you will provide assistance to an adult with developmental disabilities at their home. Support will not only include assisting the individual with daily living activities, but also helping the individual achieve their personal goals.

Who You Are:

• Reliable – Someone who shows up on time, is responsible, and is committed to supporting the Rock Creek Foundation mission.
• Sincere – Someone who is attentive, protects individual’s rights to privacy, confidentiality, and personal choices.
• Understanding – Someone who will help Rock Creek Foundation in supporting individuals to ensure that their needs and life goals are safely achieved.
• Personable – Someone who has good communication skills, can build relationships with others, and enjoys being active within the local community.

What You’ll Do:

• Accompanies, supervises, and transports individuals to social and recreational activities.
• Assists individual in performing household tasks, such as cleaning, meal preparation, menu planning, and weekly activity schedule.
• Counsel individual to identify and resolve social or other challenges.
• Supports individual in setting and achieving personal goals.
• Compiles daily activity records, incident reports, daily diary notes, and consumer goals in the Electronic Medical Record, and implements annual person-centered plan.
• Ensures compliance with COMAR, MBON, and Company regulations.

What You’ll Get:

• An hourly rate range is $17.00-$17.75
• Opportunities for career growth, training and professional development, flexible work schedules and shifts.
• Employee Assistance Program
• Company-wide wellness program
• Smart, passionate, and engaged coworkers
• The rare opportunity to make a difference in the very community that you call home. We are leading providers in Behavioral and Mental Health

What We Require:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Experience working with adults with varying disabilities.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license, current automobile insurance, and have access to a personal vehicle
• Must be able to work with “high-risk” consumers who have mental illnesses as well as developmental and physical disabilities. We expect all staff to have a strong desire to provide excellent customer service; to comply with the rules and regulations of those organizations to which we are accountable; to have high ethical and professional standards of conduct; and to have an attitude of wanting to continuously improve their own professional performance.

Who We Are:

At Rock Creek Foundation, a subsidiary of The Sante Group, we believe that having a disability and/or a mental illness should not prevent anyone from having the opportunity to participate in everyday life. That’s why we have been pioneering the field of behavioral health services for the dually-diagnosed. We want to ensure that each person we serve can develop the skills they need to live as independently as possible, in their own communities, and is able to realize his or her potential in ways that they could not do so before. Our committed staff of direct support professionals help drive our mission.

Disclaimers:

Santé Group Companies aspires to create an organization that places value on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and inclusivity. To achieve this success, it is essential that all members of our organization feel secure, welcomed, and respected. All members of our organization have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Santé Group Companies is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. Santé Group Companies participates in E-Verify. http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf