Caring for teens and adults with behavioral health challenges requires special people with big hearts. At Orion Homes, their behavioral health caregivers and technicians directly assist residents daily within their specialized group homes across Maricopa County. For anyone who has ever wondered whether human services could be their calling, read below to learn what full-time careers with Orion are really like straight from their amazing team members!
What Does a Typical Day Look Like?
Orion Home’s caregiver teams provide around-the-clock support on assigned shifts to ensure residents have assistance during all waking hours. Caregivers operating on day shifts assist residents in morning routines, household chores, personal hygiene, medications, meals, transportation, and daily programming. Evening staff continues supporting residents through dinner, medications, showers, leisure activities, and bedtime prep. Overnight staffers monitor the home and perform safety checks while residents sleep.
What Specialized Training Do Orion Caregivers Receive?
All Orion Homes’ behavioral health caregivers complete their robust onboarding before working independently. They shadow experienced mentors learning to support residents compassionately through meltdowns, recognize signs of crisis, safely de-escalate tense situations, and nurture the strengths of those in their care. Caregivers also receive certification in crisis prevention, first aid, CPR, Article 9 restraints, suicide awareness, medication management, and trauma-informed care.
What Traits Make a Successful Orion Caregiver?
Patience, empathy, and accountability are must-have qualities for caregivers in a behavioral health residential setting. Their teams treat residents with profound dignity and respect at all times through a gentle, nurturing approach. Caregivers must have calm composure during stressful incidents and make sound judgments under pressure. They also possess the emotional maturity to handle physically and verbally aggressive behaviors appropriately per Orion protocols.
Why Do Staff Love Working for Orion?
Orion caregivers describe their roles as uniquely challenging yet extremely rewarding. Daily, they’re reminded of the good they’re doing as family members thank them sincerely, and they get to bask in the joy of improving lives. Orion Homes also strives to create a fun, family-like culture across all their programs through staff appreciation events, competitive pay, 401K, vision, dental, health benefits and more!
What Should All Applicants Know?
Orion Homes needs caring individuals to fill full-time, part-time, and on-call caregiver roles across all shifts. No prior healthcare experience is necessary! Their team goes all out to develop reps who make a real difference, even if they don’t have a traditional background. Anyone 18 or older with a high school diploma or GED can apply. Successful hires must pass background checks, obtain fingerprint clearance required for working with vulnerable populations, have reliable transportation, and speak fluent English. Weekend, evening, and overnight availability is also highly preferred to meet resident needs.
If helping struggling young people find hope inspires you, visit www.orion-homes.com/careers to see current caregiver openings across Maricopa County today!
