Residential Counselor Crisis Intervention
Resume:
Devon Jones
Randallstown, MD, **133
PHONE :443-***-****
**********@*****.***
SUMMARY
Detail-oriented residential counselor skilled in assisting clients with daily living activities, transportation and maintaining overall well-being. Offering 12 years of healthcare experience, including monitoring clients with developmental disabilities and adhering to patient care plans. Holds superior record of patient dedication and commitment by promoting comfort and quality care. Compassionate residential counselor with 12 years of experience working with female and male adolescent patients. Known for providing individualized and thorough care and dedicated to long-term patient success. Skilled at [crisis intervention ] with training in self injurious behavior and sexual behaviors.
SKILLS
CPR/First-aid certified
Work with adolescent females and males
Self injurious behaviors
Eating disorders
Social and emotional behaviors
Sexual behaviors
Developmental disabilities
Crisis intervention
EXPERIENCE
JOB TITLE : Senior Residential Counselor
LOCATION: Sheppard Pratt Health Systems / Mann RTC ( Towson, MD)
DATES : Feb 2019 to Current
Collaborated with various healthcare professionals to plan rehabilitation programs.
Established long and short-term goals for therapeutic services to encourage patient progress.
Monitored and assisted both occupational and physical therapists during treatments.
Complete unit rounds every 15 minutes
Observe and document behaviors
Lead groups
Prepare meals
Transport residents to off grounds activities
Monitor phone calls
Monitor visits
Crisis intervention
JOB TITLE : Residential Counselor
LOCATION : Woodbourne Center at Nexis (Baltimore, MD)
DATES : Mar 2018 to Dec 2019
Conducted rounds of rooms and building to check on compliance and safety issues, including unlocked windows, propped open doors and residents not in assigned area of unit.
Completed daily resident welfare checks and coordinated with facility staff to meet all resident needs.
Worked with therapeutic teams to facilitate counseling and group discussions for juveniles.
Completed daily reports.
Phone calls
Off grounds
Visits
Prepare meals
Crisis interventions
JOB TITLE : Special Education Behavior Specialist/Residential Counselor
LOCATION : Staffing Plus Inc. ( Towson, MD)
DATES : Apr 2015 to Jan 2017
Behavior Specialist
Delivered specialized classroom instruction to students with developmental disorders.
Eliminated learning gaps and effectively instructed students by using teaching aids and motivational strategies.
Provided students with personalized educational, behavioral and emotional support.
Utilized curriculum with life-based approach.
Prepared visual aids, equipment and classroom displays to foster learning.
Drove social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development through age-appropriate enrichment activities.
Kept students safe inside and outside classrooms by proactively monitoring behaviors and tracking student movements, safety hazards and visitors.
Crisis intervention
JOB TITLE : Day Program Assistant
LOCATION : Delta-T Temp Agency ( Columbia, MD)
DATES :Dec 2010 to Nov 2015
Regularly available for and capable of assisting students with their concerns related to their university experience.
This responsibility involves spending a majority of the time, particularly evenings, on the floor stopping by individual rooms and keeping an open door policy.
Knowledgeable about campus and community resources and function as a source of information, making referrals as necessary.
Transmit, by example and leadership, a positive attitude toward academic and intellectual pursuits and insures that students develop a floor atmosphere conducive to academic success.
Work cooperatively with residents to insure an environment that values individual differences and respects the rights and opinions of all residents through open communication, appropriately confronting each other with concerns and issues.
Mediate roommate conflicts as necessary.
Inform and educate residents about their rights and responsibilities as students, residence hall and university policies and procedures, and expectations of standards of conduct for ENMU students.
Respond to student behavior which violates university and residence hall policies, procedures, and/or expectations, approaching discipline in an educational and developmental manner.
Keep residents informed of important dates and activities by maintaining a neat, up-to-date bulletin board.
Encourage residents' participation in university related activities and events, i.e., RHA, athletics, intramurals, performing arts, ASAB, etc.
Where appropriate, participate as a group.
Transported clients to locations outside the facility, such as physicians’ office or on outings, using a motor vehicle.
JOB TITLE : Behavior Specialist
LOCATION : Mountain Manor Treatment Center (Baltimore, MD)
DATES : Dec 2008 to Feb 2010
Provides constant supervision of residents and assists residents with activities of daily living (ADLs) and adherence to programming schedules, including but not limited to education, recreation, and groups.
Ensures that residents comply with agency/program rules and regulations.
Reinforces the goals and objectives of individual treatment plans for residents by positively reinforcing strengths and addressing areas for continued development.
Assist residents in recognizing and overcoming behaviors triggered by past trauma.
Monitors behaviors and responds to irregularities or problems, considering past trauma and triggers, including but not limited to: tone of voice, physical boundaries and touch.
Uses behavior management techniques as prescribed by Therapeutic Crisis Intervention, to de-escalate, redirect, and, when posing a threat to themselves or others, initiate and/or participate in physical restraints.
Escorts residents to all designated activities, which includes, but is not limited to, recreation events, meals and various other activities.
Participate in the treatment planning and review process.
Promote a therapeutic milieu and appropriate socialization.
Employ trauma sensitive practices.
Complete required documentation.
Maintains defined boundaries with residents.
Performs housekeeping in residential areas, including laundry, vacuuming and various other activities, as needed.
Plans, leads, participates and engages residents in recreational, educational and various other activities including groups.
Administers medication as instructed, with appropriate training and certification.
Maintains a safe, healthy, structured environment for residents.
Models appropriate communication and behaviors for residents.
Participates in programming unit meetings.
Develops and maintains positive relationships with external customers, families and employees and residents.
Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Special Education
COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY
Baltimore, MD
CERTIFICATIONS
First Aid Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) Crisis Intervention
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