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Residential Assistant (Part-time)

  • Category: Patient Care Support
  • Location: Altoona, PA
  • Type: Part-Time · Day Job

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About this role

We are a licensed personal care home specializing in the admission of individuals with mental health diagnoses. Staff receive comprehensive training, including medication administration, CPR, first aid, direct care, and crisis intervention. As a small facility, we emphasize a supportive, home-like environment that promotes resident stability and well-being.

The personal care home is managed and operated in accordance with agency policies and procedures, with a focus on efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and full regulatory compliance.


Responsibilities: 

Crisis & Resident Support

  • Assess, respond to, and document resident crises.
  • Provide supportive counseling and ongoing resident monitoring.

Resident Care & Engagement

  • Support personal care, nutrition, leisure, and skill development.
  • Facilitate individual and group therapeutic activities.

Facility Operations

  • Manage daily personal care home operations.
  • Orient residents, resolve conflicts, and maintain records.
  • Ensure safe living standards per agency and PA regulations.

Coordination & Compliance

  • Serve as liaison with community agencies and treatment providers.
  • Participate in quality improvement, training, and agency activities.
  • Maintain confidentiality and adhere to policies and professional standards.

Safety & Service Quality

  • Promote safety, quality service delivery, and agency mission.
  • Promote resident skill development in cooperation with the client’s treatment team.
  • Demonstrate support of Agency mission and philosophy in delivery of services.
  • Work to achieve and maintain quality and customer satisfaction in the delivery of services to internal/external customers.
  • Promote personal and co-worker safety during work duties.
  • High School diploma/GED required.

  • Nurse’s aide training and/or 6 months related work experience preferred.

  • Experience working in mental health field preferred.

  • Applicants must be 21 years or older due to position restrictions.



Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
CPR and first aid certification within 30 days of employment. CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire

  • Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
  • Comprehensive Crisis Management (CCMC)
  • Act 34
  • OAPSA


ST Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

 

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$18.19–$27.58 / hr

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Grow with us

Naomi started as a nursing intern. Today she leads a team of 22.

At Pepper Health, careers are designed to compound. 71% of our managers were promoted from within — here is one journey, and yours could look just as ambitious.

A memorable moment for me was standing up the night-shift residency I wished I'd had — and watching the first cohort become charge nurses.

Naomi B.Director of Nursing · 9 years at Pepper

I never had to leave to grow. Every couple of years there was a new chapter waiting, and a manager who actively wanted me to outgrow them.

  1. Nurse Extern

    Learned the floor and shadowed charge nurses on Med-Surg.

  2. New-grad RN, Med-Surg

    Joined the nurse residency and found her footing in acute care.

  3. Charge Nurse

    Ran the board on nights and mentored the new grads behind her.

  4. Nurse Manager

    Led a unit of 14 through a new-tower opening.

  5. Director of Nursing

    Now leads a team of 22 across Med-Surg and the ED.

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Our patient-care-support roles feed directly into nursing and allied pipelines, with tuition support and schedules that flex around school.

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[00:00] Sam, PCT: I started as a patient-care tech straight out of high school, not sure where it would lead. [00:47] Narrator: Pepper's tuition assistance covers up to a set amount each year toward a clinical degree. [01:40] Sam, PCT: My manager built my schedule around class. I'm two semesters from my RN now. [02:39] Sam, PCT: They didn't just give me a job — they gave me a career ladder, and then helped me climb it.

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Residential Assistant (Part-time)

$18.19–$27.58 / hr