Community Specialist, Healthcare

Position: Community Specialist - $500 Sign On Bonus

At Monarch, we work together to provide life-changing care in communities across North Carolina and Rhode Island. As a team, we provide hope, promote wellness, and empower individuals and families impacted by mental illness, substance use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injury.

You Belong at Monarch

You deserve a positive and encouraging work environment - a place where you can do your best work and grow as a professional. That is just what you’ll find e, we care for people, including our team members. We offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package that supports full-time and part-time team members and their families. More than just a job, this opportunity with Monarch will give you room to spread your wings and grow because we believe in promoting from within and developing future leaders.

Job Highlights:
This Opportunity:The Community Specialist is primarily responsible for developing a positive relationship with the individual receiving services and their family in a work, home, school, or community setting while assisting them in achieving their personal dreams and goals as designated in the individual goal plans, as well as providing periodic relief to the caregiver.

Make a Difference in Someone’s Life!

At Monarch, we work together to provide life-changing care in communities across North Carolina and Rhode Island. As a team, we provide hope, promote wellness, and empower individuals and families impacted by mental illness, substance use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injury.

You Belong at Monarch

You deserve a positive and encouraging work environment - a place where you can do your best work and grow as a professional. That is just what you’ll find e, we care for people, including our team members. We offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package that supports full-time and part-time team members and their families. More than just a job, this opportunity with Monarch will give you room to spread your wings and grow because we believe in promoting from within and developing future leaders.

Job Highlights:SIGN ON BONUS:$1,000 ($500 at 30 days; $500 at 6 months)
This Opportunity:The Community Specialist is primarily responsible for developing a positive relationship with the individual receiving services and their family in a work, home, school, or community setting while assisting them in achieving their personal dreams and goals as designated in the individual goal plans, as well as providing periodic relief to the caregiver.
What You'll Do:

• Assess each person receiving services for their hopes, dreams, and desires and provide supports that facilitate achievement.

• Ensure that the rights of each person receiving services are protected and promoted at all times. Assist people in developing advocacy skills, participating in advocacy efforts, and utilizing personal advocates, as well as, provide periodic relief to the caregiver.

• Serve as a resource for individual receiving services on community agencies, services, and supports that can meet identified needs/goals.

• Supervise, educate, and monitor (as needed) individual receiving services in work, home, school, or community type settings.

• Provide one-on-one support as needed to meet the emotional, physical, and medical needs of each person supported.

• Maintain a safe environment for community, employees, and individual receiving services by practicing safety procedures.

• Facilitate person-centered, effective, positive relationships with individual receiving services using positive approaches that promote self-determination in all areas of life.

• Provide input and recommendations into assessment and planning processes, and development of the individual’s plan.

• Implement person’s plan fully including but not limited to respite plan, within the requirements of the service definition, and document as required by the service definition and agency policy. Accurately complete all required documentation, including but not limited to, goal completion, actions toward outcomes, incident reports, timesheets, etc.

• Complete daily progress notes and…