Pd-Bridge Services Specialist

This is an on call/as needed non-benefited position

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 a safe and welcoming living environment for residents.
• Correct safety and potential safety hazards or report them to Program Manager or Assistant Manager and maintenance department.
• Ensure work area is clean and well kept; assist in the daily upkeep of the facility, including housekeeping and supplies.
• Provide milieu and 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, rehabilitation and treatment, by working individually and in groups to facilitate integration into the community. Duties may include any or all of the following:
  • Utilize methods of observation, conduct client interviews, and administer various evaluations to assess clients’ cognitive and functional levels and recommend appropriate treatment programs.
  • Engage and engender trust for the purpose of developing therapeutic relations with clients.
• Provide client services in restorative, functional, and preventive therapeutic programs.
• Plan and organize activity programs, utilizing activities as an evaluation tool and as a therapeutic process.
• Facilitate individuals and groups through rehabilitation counseling processes that help develop and strengthen life, coping, and independent living skills; develop curriculums.
• Facilitate one‑on‑one and groups through rehabilitation counseling processes; take notes; schedule clients for psychiatric consultations.
• Provide medical follow‑up assistance to clients in obtaining a primary care physician, coordinating care with medical personnel, and assisting with medical issues, schedules, and transportation.
• Provide support to facilitate issues with existing client insurance benefits to expedite treatment, to enable them to return to work, and for payment to the Agency.
• Provide service to clients and clients’ families in linkage with professional and community resources.
• Coordinate care with other programs and contact case managers if clients show changes in behavior; refer clients to non‑Momentum therapists, if appropriate.
• May communicate with clients’ probation officers, conservators, and case managers, and the courts of client admission and on an on‑going 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.
• Conduct telephone interviews with clients; help them with interviews for housing placement.
• Work with clients’ families and educate them on mental health issues, facilitating the assistance process toward successful transitions.
• Interface directly with clients and provide counseling, particularly during times of conflict and crisis intervention.
• Assess clients’ independent living skills and mental status; identify needed skill‑sets; assist in learning new skill‑sets; provide opportunities to practice new skills; assess their stability; approve their weekday and weekend passes; and help clients with learning problem‑solving, independent living, socialization, and coping skills.
• Assist in budgeting and financial planning; address health and safety issues, how to respond to common emergencies, and medication education.
• Encourage clients’ resourcefulness, self‑empowerment, and understanding their diagnosis and/or illness.
• 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…