Job Description
SCAN’S Women’s Recovery Home has 1 full-time Adult Female Care Worker Position.
The Women’s Recovery Home is a gender specific residential substance abuse treatment program for Adult Females ages 18 and up who are dependent on drugs and/or alcohol.
Job Duties:
1. Provide direct supervision of 12 adult female clients in care and maintain line of site at all times.
2. Provide oversight during recreation, meal time, relaxing time, and/or play time.
3. Assist during transition and movement of clients from one activity to the next and one physical location to another.
4. Interact with clients in an appropriate manner, including when playing games or during recreational time.
5. Communicate in a positive and respectful manner with clients, families, and all agency staff including supervisors, co-workers, counselors, student interns, volunteers, and other community agencies.
6. Assist clients in learning life skills, and redirecting clients when going off task.
7. Complete all required documentation prior to completion of shift.
8. Assist program director with other job duties assigned as needed.
9. Flexible to work 7 days a week with 2 days off on either one of the following shifts: (6:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.); (2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.); or (10: 00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.)
Minimum Requirements:
• High School Diploma or GED.
• Valid Texas Driver’s License with good driving record.
• Position requires the availability to work any shift assigned (it may include holidays and/or weekends).
• Communicate effectively in writing and verbally in English and Spanish.
• Applicant must be 21 years or older.
Benefits for Full-Time positions include:
• Starting hourly wage $15.00
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Vacations
• Paid Sick Leave
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Bi-Weekly pay (direct deposit)
• Dental and vision insurance coverage available at minimal cost
• Orientation and job training provided, including CPR, First Aid, and C.P.I
Application deadline: Until Position Filled.
Type: Full-time
Pay: $15.00 per HOUR
About
SCAN
Serving Children and Adults in Need (SCAN) was officially formed in 1982 as Stop Child Abuse and Neglect in Laredo, Texas. Today, SCAN is a community-based, nonprofit social services organization with a 43-year history of providing a variety of comprehensive and culturally sensitive services to a population that is almost 95% Hispanic and which resides along the Texas-Mexico Border in Southwest Texas. SCAN programs provide diverse prevention, intervention, and treatment services for children, adolescents, adults, and families. At SCAN, our passion is helping people, and we constantly strive to foster the healthy development of families in the communities that we serve. With a budget of more than $15 million, SCAN has more than 40 programs providing services in 17 different counties.
Counties are: Cameron, Dimmit, Duval, Edwards, Frio, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kinney, LaSalle, Maverick, Real, Starr, Uvalde, Val Verde, Webb, Zapata and Zavala.