Military Behavioral Health Specialist

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide community outreach to connect the military population to services throughout the eight-county region.
• Identify training needs of Cumberland River staff to enhance services to the SMVF population.
• Identify Veteran groups throughout the eight-county region and build relationships with them so that they are aware of services available to Veterans.
• Provide SMVF Peer Support Services as needed, if applicable.
• Attend trainings identified by the DBHDID related to the unique behavioral health needs of the SMVF population.
• Demonstrate the ability to work effectively with other team members, as part of a multidisciplinary team, and independently, when necessary.
• Provide peer support, drawing on common experiences as a peer, to validate clients; experiences and to provide guidance and encouragement to clients to take responsibility and actively participate in their own recovery.
• Serve as a mentor to clients to promote hope and empowerment.
• Act as an interpreter to help non-clinical team members better understand and empathize with each client’s unique and subjective experience and perceptions.
• Collaborate with the team to promote a team culture in which each client’s point of view, experiences, and preferences are recognized, understood, and respected, and in which client self-determination and decision-making in treatment planning are maximized and supported.
• Help other team members identify and understand culture-wide stigma and discrimination against people with substance use disorder and develop strategies to eliminate stigma within the team.
• Collaborate with the team to ensure the protection of clients’ rights in order to help clients to improve their knowledge of client rights and grievance or compliant procedures.
• Increase awareness of and support client participation in consumer self-help programs and consumer advocacy organizations that promote recovery.
• Serve as the liaison between the team and consumer-run programs such as self-help groups, veterans centers and drop-in centers.
• Other duties may be assigned.

• Perform mentoring, problem solving, encouragement and support on and off the job site. Provide work‑related supportive services, such as assistance securing necessary clothing and grooming supplies, wake‑up calls transportation.
• Activities of Daily Living Services
• Provide ongoing assessment, problem solving, side‑by‑side services, skill teaching, support (prompts assignments, encouragement), and environmental adaptations to assist clients with activities of daily living.
• Assist clients to find and maintain a safe and affordable place to live, apartment hunting, finding a roommate, landlord negotiations, cleaning, furnishings, and decorating, and procuring necessities (telephone, furniture, utility hook‑up).
• Assist and support clients in organizing and performing household activities, including house cleaning and laundry.
• Assist and support clients with personal hygiene and grooming tasks.
• Provide nutrition education and assistance with meal planning, grocery shopping and food preparation.
• Provide nutrition education and assistance with meal planning, grocery shopping and food preparation.
• Ensure that clients have adequate financial support (help to gain employment and apply for entitlements).
• Teach money‑management skills (budgeting and paying bills) and assist clients in accessing financial services (e.g., professional financial counseling, emergency loan services).
• Help clients to access reliable transportation (obtain a driver’s license, car and car insurance, arrange for cabs, use public transportation, find rides).
• Assist and support clients to have and effectively use a personal primary care physician, dentist, and other medical specialists as required.

Provide side‑by‑side support, coaching and encouragement to help clients socialize (going with a client to community activities, including activities offered by consumer‑run peer support organizations).

Assist clients to plan and carry out leisure time activities on evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Organize and lead individual…