UHS·Bedford Charter Township, Michigan
The Residential Assistant is responsible for monitoring and providing care for patients, which includes ensuring new patient orientation, conducting psycho-educational groups, and maintaining program schedules. Essential duties also involve utilizing supportive techniques, employing de-escalation, performing safety checks, and assisting patients with daily living maintenance responsibilities.
The Residential Assistant monitors and provides care for patients. Essential
Ensures orientation of new patients immediately upon admission. Conducts psycho-educational groups with patients. Provides empathic, supportive approach to all patient interactions by acting as a sounding board for the individual, ensuring confrontation is not used. Utilizes motivational interviewing and patient-centered techniques when assisting patients. Employs de-escalation techniques. Ensures program schedule is maintained. Completes room checks, safety checks and patient supervision checks as required. Maintains work area cleanliness, assist patients to develop appropriate cleaning skills by role modeling. Directly performs daily living maintenance responsibilities. Obtains all medications from consumer at intake and secures according to policy. Utilizes local crisis response plan in case of emergency psychiatric emergency (i.e. suicidal/homicidal ideation or threats). Performs all other duties as required or assigned.
Ability to consistently demonstrate through conduct and communications the stability required to effectively assist patients and their family members through the FRN Model of Treatment. Must have high level of interpersonal skills. Position continually requires demonstrated poise, professionalism, tact and diplomacy. Must have general knowledge of a variety of computer software applications in word processing and spreadsheets (MS Word, Excel). Understanding of diverse cultures and gender specific issues and the ability to incorporate needs of gender and culturally diverse groups into the organization. Understands need for and maintains appropriate confidentiality at all times when interacting with patients, residents, families, visitors, referral sources and all other contacts. Education and Experience High School diploma or GED required. Minimum 1 year experience working with dually diagnosed individuals preferred. CPR certification (or willing to obtain CPR training and certification). Benefit Highlights Challenging and rewarding work environment Career development opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries Competitive Compensation Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan Generous Paid Time Off Free Basic Life Insurance Pick-up Bonus Student Loan Reimbursement Tuition Assistance UHS is a registered trademark of UHS of Delaware, Inc., the management company for Universal Health Services, Inc. and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal Health Services, Inc. Universal Health Services, Inc. is a holding company and operates through its subsidiaries including its management company, UHS of Delaware, Inc. All healthcare and management operations are conducted by subsidiaries of Universal Health Services, Inc. To the extent any reference to "UHS or UHS facilities" on this website including any statements, articles or other publications contained herein relates to our healthcare or management operations it is referring to Universal Health Services' subsidiaries including UHS of Delaware. Further, the terms "we," "us," "our" or "the company" in such context similarly refer to the operations of Universal Health Services' subsidiaries including UHS of Delaware. Any employment referenced in this website is not with Universal Health Services, Inc. but solely with one of its subsidiaries including but not limited to UHS of Delaware, Inc. UHS is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at UHS via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of UHS. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by UHS as a result of the referral or through other means. EEO Statement All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success. Notice At UHS and all our subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates by matching skillset and experience with the best possible career path at UHS and our subsidiaries. We take pride in creating a highly efficient and best in class candidate experience. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. The recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. If you are suspicious of a job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, let us know by contacting us at: or 1-800-852-3449.
Candidates must demonstrate the stability and high interpersonal skills necessary to effectively assist patients and families using the FRN Model of Treatment, requiring poise, professionalism, and diplomacy. A High School diploma or GED is required, and a minimum of 1 year of experience working with dually diagnosed individuals is preferred, along with current or obtainable CPR certification.
Market context
In Michigan, operations roles in healthcare and long-term care are often competitive because employers look for candidates who can combine clinical credibility with strong administrative follow-through. For this posting, a current nursing registration, Vulnerable Sector Screening, and familiarity with gerontology or long-term care are key differentiators, while Microsoft Office skills support day-to-day coordination. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to save time, then tailor your application to show both patient-care and operations experience.