Co-Occurring Specialist

Responsibilities

• Create and Maintain :A wellness and recovery oriented environment by using person-first language, respectful documentation, and person centered planning.
• Participates:As a team member in the frequent monitoring and assessment of the mental health status of people served as well as related variables, including significant others, the home and the community in which the person served lives.
• Provides:Mental health education, community living skill training and supportive counseling in the home and other natural environments to persons served and significant others, with special focus on substance abuse education and intervention needs of the person served.
• Crisis intervention services for persons served with acute psychiatric needs whose circumstances and conditions require rapid intervention. Stages wise treatment is provided utilizing motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral techniques.
• 24 hour on-call coverage on a rotating schedule
• Outreach to newly enrolled individuals and encourages those reluctant to accept mental health services through interventions with them and/or family members and friends concerned with the their welfare
• Technical assistance and education to members of the team in the area of co-occurring disorders.
• Develops co-occurring disorders materials and strategies for individual and group interventions, in conjunction with the team
• In-vivo training and supervision to PACT staff
• Orientation to new staff on PACT services and recovery-based interventions
• Consults:With other service providers and resource people regarding the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation needs of the persons served
• E-mail:Creates, receives and responds to all e-mail correspondence in a prompt and professional manner. Emails must be read once per work day/shift
• Decision making:On a regular and continuous basis, exercises sound judgment and assume responsibility for decisions, consequences and results having an impact on people, costs and/or quality of service within the functional area

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a behavioral health field plus two years post- Degree experience providing dual disorder services to individuals with co-occurring serious and persistent mental illness and substance abuse
• The Co-Occurring Specialist shall hold the professional credentials required by the NJ Alcohol and Drug Licensing and Certification Counseling Committee (i.e. CADC/LCADC)

Pay

Competitive base salary

Schedule

Monday-Friday 830a-5p with 30 minute unpaid lunch; weekends as needed

Benefits

• Medical and dental insurance
• Vision plan
• Retailment plan
• Flexible spending plans

Opportunity for personal and career growth

Opportunity for personal and career growth, including supervision towards professional licensure for eligible candidates

Team-oriented environment

Oaks Integrated Care considers applicants for all positions without regard to: race; color; religion; sex; national origin; age; sexual orientation; marital or veteran status; the presence of a medical condition, genetic information or handicap, unrelated to performing the tasks of the job; or any other legally protected status.