Rehabilitation Services Specialist

Monday - Friday 7:30 am – 12:30 pm. The individual needs to understand the impact of behavioral health symptoms on presentation and importance of leveraging community and family supports. Please note these are 5 hour shifts that are 100% field based.

Pay rates for Union positions are set in the Collective Bargaining Agreement with SEIU Local 521. Each position has a total of six steps, Step 1 (entry level) through Step 6 (15 years of employment with the organization). Union staff are promoted from Step 1 to Step 2 upon their one-year anniversary. The current Step 1 rate for this position is $35.49
/hr, and the current Step 6 rate for this position is $39.19
/hr.

• Provide mental health rehabilitation and case management services for a varying caseload, coupled with involvement of their families, which assist and support clients in all areas of daily living and facilitate integration into the community. Duties may include any or all of the following:
  • Develop curriculum and facilitate groups and one–on–ones through rehabilitation counseling processes that help develop and strengthen life, coping, and independent living skills; develop curriculums.
  • Provide group facilitation through field and periodic outings to promote community integration.
  • Help prepare and assist clients and their families with client social integration into community life, housing, school, employment, and other life‑sustaining and independent living skills.
  • Assist in budgeting and financial planning; address health and safety issues and how to respond to common emergencies.
  • Interface directly with clients and provide counseling, particularly during times of conflict and crisis intervention.
• Assess the independent living skills of clients and their stability;
  • Alert other professional staff of adverse reactions to medication or medication avoidance;
  • When assessed as highly unstable, such as being a danger to self or others, write up 5150 holds (involuntary detentions) to determine the extent of the threat; de‑escalate that threat;
  • Update treatment plans per Agency guidelines;
  • Provide appropriate consultation and back‑up to support other staff in responding to client crisis;
  • Help clients strengthen problem‑solving, socialization, and coping skills;
  • Encourage clients’ resourcefulness, self‑empowerment, and understanding their diagnosis and/or illness.
• Provide service to clients and clients’ families in linkage with professional and community resources.
  • Coordinate care with other programs; refer clients to Agency and non‑Agency therapists, if appropriate;
  • May communicate with clients’ probation agents, conservators, and case managers, and the courts on an ongoing basis;
  • Liaise/advocate for clients with outside agencies; help and educate clients with researching outside, independent living and making the most of community resources; liaise with representatives of those resources, such as property managers, on behalf of clients; support the families of clients through linkage to appropriate resources;
  • Work with clients’ families and educate them on mental health issues, facilitating the assistance process toward successful transitions.
• Coordinate activities and provide food and other related services to support the smooth operation of Agency kitchen and residential facilities and communications and maintain facilities to payor and other regulatory health and safety standards.
  • Organize, prepare, and serve meals, and maintain safe hygiene and sanitation practices, working collaboratively with clients to learn these skills.
  • Provide menu planning, preparation, set up, and service/delivery of meals and snacks;
  • Perform kitchen and dining room sanitation processes and activities;
  • Perform basic cleaning, such as washing dishes and cleaning the kitchen and dining room.
• Coordinate and perform activities which maintain proper food supplies and storage.
• Complete the clinical records and other documentation, processes, and procedures that enable clients to receive these services in accordance with agency, payor and regulatory requirements, utilizing paper or computer technology.
  • Develop and implement individual service and treatment…