**Overview** CHI Health St. Francis was established in Grand Island Neb. in 1887. Today our hospital is a regional referral center with more than 100 physicians and more than 1100 employees working together to build a healthier community. Our goal is to provide patients with high-quality medical care close to home where they can be supported by their family friends and community. **Immediate opportunity for a Chemical Dependency Tech - St. Francis** With you in mind, we offer the following benefits to support your work/life balance: + Health/Dental/Vision Insurance + Direct Primary Plan (No copay, no deductible, and access to CHI Health provider 24/7) + Premium Access to our Family Care Program supporting your needs for childcare, pet care, and/or adult dependent care + Voluntary Protection: Group Accident, Critical Illness, and Identity Theft + Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family + Paid Time Off (PTO) + Tuition Assistance for career growth and development + Matching 401(k) and 457(b) Retirement Programs + Adoption Assistance + Wellness Programs + Flexible spending accounts CHI Health, now part of CommonSpirit Health formed between Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health, includes 150+ clinics delivering quality care to patients across Nebraska and southeast Iowa. Our full-service network provides a variety of Primary Care & Priority Care Services, including Family, Internal, Geriatric, and Pediatric Medicine, in addition to several specialties to deliver custom care based on the unique needs of our patients. **Responsibilities** + Establishes and maintains effective therapeutic relationships with clients and/or families and significant others who are experiencing a variety of complex substance abuse problems and r/t issues. + Responsible for residential unit during evening, overnight, and weekend hours. Documents regular client activities and any otherwise unusual circumstances that occur during their shift. Responsible to provide a “shift change” verbal and computer report to incoming staff so that critical occurrences may be dealt with during the next day or following shift. + Provides supervision of the clients and moves around and surveys the unit to locate all clients and update incoming staff. + Prepares admission packets, takes inventory, and prepares information to be sent out to clients, families, and/or referral sources as directed by the multi-disciplinary team. Performs certain amount of cleaning duties. Periodically responsible to explain admission information to clients recently admitted; explaining client’s rights, rules and guidelines, program operations, tour of the facility, and other pertinent orientation information. Documents orientation information. Instructs clients and family members on fire procedures and emergency exits and tornado procedures. + Takes client vital signs, checks client height/weight, supervises medication/treatments and basic first aide, checks client rooms and general facility for cleanliness, and generally monitors clients to insure they are following specified treatment plans. + Assists primary counselors in evaluating the extent of substance abuse and/or dependency of the client, which involves basic listening and reporting skills in order to document and relay information gained to the multi-disciplinary team. **Qualifications** Education + Ability to read, write and type in order to record client information on charts and to interpret type and level of client care required; and ability to perform simple arithmetic calculations in order to take and record vital signs as normally acquired through completion of high school. Certification/Licensure + BLS required upon date of hire or transfer. Required to obtain First Aid Certification within 6 months and Medication Aide Certification within 6 months in order to show competency in supervision of client’s medications. **Pay Range** $14.78 - $20.33 /hour We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.