VOAMASS

Direct Care Worker

VOAMASS  •  $19 - $21/hr  •  Massachusetts (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

The Opportunity: Direct Care Staff at a Veteran Facility

Job Type: Full-time, On-Site

Pay: $19-21/hour

What We Do || Through our powerful integrated behavioral health care model, we bring together vast resources from a diverse team of caring staff to help each client meet their personal goals. The care we provide paves the way for greater opportunity and second chances by focusing on the critical pillars towards a healthy life: behavioral health, financial stability, and safe housing.

As a Direct Care Worker, you’ll have a dynamic and critical role maintaining a safe and secure environment within our Mass Bay Veterans Center facility. At MBVC, veterans are welcomed home. MBVC is a safe, clean, and compassionate environment for individuals to make connections to employment opportunities, long-term independent housing, substance abuse counseling, and mental health care. MBVC is a community where veterans have the time and resources to take care of themselves, create relationships with one another, and get the support they need to rebuild their independence.

This role is about making a difference in the lives of the people we serve. You’ll bring the following qualifications:

  • High School degree and a minimum of one year related experience in a human service setting with those who suffer from mental health, disability or substance abuse issues. or equivalent
  • Experience/interest in working with veterans preferred.

Hours:

Available shifts include weekdays and weekends: either 7am-3pm, 3-11pm, OR 11pm-7am.

Pay:

$19/hour for weekday shifts & $21/ hour for overnight and weekend shifts

To best serve our clients, your key responsibilities will involve:

  • Provide internal security and crisis intervention as required.
  • Enforce program rules on a consistent basis and operates the behavior management system.
  • Maintain an awareness of the condition of the building and property, and reports any security issues or maintenance needs to the Program Director.
  • Know, understand, and follow all program policies and rules, as well as VOA policies and procedures.
  • Accept any other responsibilities as assigned or needed to maintain the security, integrity, and environment of the program.

Since 1934, VOAMASS has provided critical services to the residents of the Commonwealth. From pioneering early residential treatment programs in the 1960’s to leading today in the field of mental health programming, VOAMASS can be counted on to tackle our greatest challenges.

VOAMASS is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

VOAMASS

About VOAMASS

Volunteers of America of Massachusetts helps more than 3,000 individuals and their families annually through an array of residential and outpatient services including Residential Treatment Services, Veteran Services, Re-Entry, Outpatient Behavioral Health Treatment, and Independent and Assisted Living for seniors.

VOA is committed to helping those in need reach their full potential through comprehensive treatment that gives people the skills, tools, and support to restore emotional and financial independence.

We puts clients first. We focus on client strengths, needs, abilities, and their preferences, specializing in client-centered, trauma-informed care based on a harm reduction framework.

Our programs are safe and supportive with the ultimate goal of every client to be self-sufficient and successfully reach their full potential in work, family, and relationships.

Our clients arrive in our care in acute crisis; not only are they in the early phase of substance use and disorder treatment, they are likely to have a mental health diagnosis, be homeless, disengaged from the labor market, lost child custody, justice-involved, and experience chronic relapse and demoralized by feelings of shame and self-punishment.

Simply put, we engage with the hardest to serve clients.

Industry
Nonprofit & NGOs
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Year Founded
1934
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