PACT Housing Specialist

Overview

ThismemberofthePACTteamhasresponsibilitytocarryoutrehabilitationandsupportfunctionsandassistintreatment;substanceabuseservices;education,support,andconsultationtofamilies;andcrisisinterventionundertheclinicalsupervisionofstaffwithprofessionaldegrees.

ThisPACTmemberspecializes in housing needs and works with housing authorities and landlords to develop housing options for persons servedand helps people learn and practice skills that enhance their chances to get and keep housing.

The essential job duties/responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to the information listed below:

• Act as a member of the Individual Treatment Team (ITT) for an assigned number of persons served.
• Participate in a person served-centered comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history (e.g. onset, course and effect of illness, past treatment and responses, and risk behaviors), mental status, and diagnosis; physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living (e.g. self-care, living situation, nutrition, money management); and family structure and relationships.
• Consult with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process.
• Perform shift management in coordination with other PACT shift managers according to established policies and procedures.
• Document person served progress to maintain a permanent record of person served activity according to established methods and procedures.
• Provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services, with some interventions directed or performed by staff with specialty training and skills.
• Participate in daily staff organizational meetings and treatment planning review meetings.
• Participate in providing substance use and treatment services.
• Provide on-call crisis intervention covering nighttime and weekend hours with clinical back-up.
• Perform other related duties, as required.

Psychiatric Treatment and Dual Diagnosis Substance Abuse Services

• Assist in the provision of ongoing assessment of persons served mental illness symptoms and persons served response to treatment. Make appropriate changes in treatment plans to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental statusor behavior which put persons served at-risk.
• Assist in provision of symptom education to enable persons served to identify their mental illness symptoms.
• Assist in the provision of direct clinical services including individual support therapy and psychotherapy to persons served on an individual, group, and family basis in the office and in community settings to teach behavioral symptom-management techniques to alleviate and manage symptoms not reduced with medication and to promote personal growth and development by assisting persons served to cope with internal external stresses.
• Assist in the provision of individual and group treatment in the office and in community settings in stage-based treatment model that is non-confrontational, considers interactions of mental illness and substance abuse, and has persons served-determined goals.
• Coordinate with outside inpatient services to detoxify persons served and establish linkage to outpatient treatment, self-help programs, outpatient services, and residential facilities.
• Participate in the provision of rehabilitation services.

Structuring Time and Employment

• Provide individual vocational-supportive counseling to enable persons served to identify vocational strengths and problems, establish vocational or career goals and plans to reach them,and recognize and target symptoms of mental illness that interfere with work.
• Plan and provide work-related supportive services, such as assistance with grooming and personal hygiene, securing of appropriate clothing, wake-up calls, and transportation.
• Teach job-seeking skills.
• Provide benefits counseling.

Activities of Daily Living Services

• Provide ongoing assessment, problem-solving, side-by-side services, skill training, supervision, and environmental adaptations to assist persons served with activities of daily living.
• Assist persons served to find and maintain a safe and affordable place to live.
• Assist and support persons served to carry out personal hygiene and grooming tasks.
• Provide nutrition education and assistance with meal planning, grocery shopping, and food preparation.
• Assist and support persons served to perform household activities, including house cleaning and…