Detox Specialist, Temp assignment, Full Time, 3/12's

At First Steps Recovery, we don’t just offer jobs — we offer purpose. As a leading, accredited behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment facility, our work changes lives daily. If you're driven by compassion, grounded in integrity, and thrive in a supportive, recovery-focused environment, you're exactly who we’re looking for.

When you join First Steps Recovery, you become part of a tight-knit, multidisciplinary team that values empathy, growth, and evidence-based care. Whether you’re working directly with clients or behind the scenes, every role here matters — and every day is an opportunity to make a difference.

Besides being an amazing company to work for, we also offer:

· Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for full time employees

· PTO / Sick Leave Plans for full time and part time employees

· Free Employee Assistance Program for full time and part time employees

· Free Legal consultations and benefits for full time and part time employees

· Free Life Insurance for full time employees

· Generous 401K program for full time and part time employees

If you're ready to be part of something bigger, we invite you to take your next step with us!

POSITION SUMMARY

Detox Specialists are responsible for the shift-by-shift supervision of the resident milieu and attending to resident's essential needs while on detoxification and residential protocols. Detox Specialists are the core of our company with unparalleled access to residents requiring the greatest representation of our professionalism, values, and culture.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions:

• Conducting admissions of residents including orientation, intake assessment, urine screen, medication management, protocols and recurring assessments, secure search/storage of personal property.
• Hourly adherence to JCAHO and state resident care standards.
• Communicating with physician, entering physician orders, and following physician orders in overseeing resident medication management.
• Proficient documentation in KIPU Systems resident management software.
• Documenting resident daily progress.
• Facility walk-throughs and maintaining control of care environment establishing a consistent presence and awareness of resident behavior.
• Enforcing policies and procedures
• Maintaining cleanliness of facility and food preparation as needed.
• Facilitating program activities, and maintaining resident schedules.
• Delegation of necessary tasks to behavioral health technicians, and fulfilling behavioral health technicians duties as needed.
• Recurring assessment, interaction, observation, and documentation of residents.
• Communicating thoroughly and accurately verbally and via shift notes to ensure continuity of high quality of care.
• Crisis Intervention.
• Conducting resident discharge, returning resident personal items, logging and following destruction of medication procedures, coordinating resident transportation and continuity of care with next level of care environment and/or facility.
• Other duties as assigned by management.