Community Support Specialist

For over 30 years, New Season Treatment Centers have been a leading national health care service provider of outpatient treatment centers that specialize in providing safe, quality and best in class care for individuals living with Opioid Use Disorder ("OUD").

Operating in over 70 treatment centers in multiple states, our team members are engaged in medication-assisted treatment, counseling, support, and care management of individuals living with OUD. We treat the whole person and, in so doing, address the underlying causes of OUD in an effort to provide a continuum of care that not only addresses treatment needs but supports the patient on their journey to recovery.

For over 30 years, New Season Treatment Centers have been a leading national health care service provider of outpatient treatment centers that specialize in providing safe, quality and best in class care for individuals living with Opioid Use Disorder ("OUD").

Operating in over 70 treatment centers in multiple states, our team members are engaged in medication-assisted treatment, counseling, support, and care management of individuals living with OUD. We treat the whole person and, in so doing, address the underlying causes of OUD in an effort to provide a continuum of care that not only addresses treatment needs but supports the patient on their journey to recovery.

Provides community support services to patients as required. Works with a multidisciplinary treatment team consisting of Medical Director, Program Director, Treatment Services Coordinator, Counselors, Community Support Specialist and Nurses to identify and meet the clinical needs of the patient and to assist in their overall well-being.

• Works with or on the behalf of patients in accordance with an individualized treatment plan, providing services to maximize an individual's immediate and continued community functioning while achieving and sustaining recovery/resiliency from mental illness and/or substance use disorders.
• Uses interventions, based on individualized strengths and needs, to develop patient's interpersonal/social, family, community, and independent living functional skills including adaptation to home, school, family and work environments when the natural acquisition of those skills is negatively impacted by the individual's mental illness and/or substance abuse disorder.
• Provides services that result in positive outcomes including but not limited to the following areas: employment, education, housing, social connectedness, abstinence/ harm reduction, decreased criminality/legal involvement, family involvement, decreased psychiatric hospitalizations, and improved physical health.
• Develops a discharge and continuing recovery plan to include, if applicable, securing a successful transition to continued services.
• Contacts individuals and/or referral sources following missed appointments in order to re-engage and promote recovery/resiliency efforts.
• Supports individuals in crisis situations including locating and coordinating resources to resolve a crisis.
• Maintains contact with individuals who are hospitalized for medical or psychiatric reasons and participate in and facilitate discharge planning for psychiatric hospitalization and for medical hospitalization as appropriate.
• Provides information and education to individuals in order to learn about and manage mental illness/serious emotional disturbance and/or substance use disorders including symptoms, triggers, cravings, and use of medications.
• Builds skills in individuals for effective illness…