Community Support Profesional - Shepherdsville

Essential Job Functions

• Teaches, models, and coaches activities of daily living (ADL) (e. g., personal hygiene, housekeeping, meal preparation, money management, educational and vocational goal-setting, nutrition needs)
• Makes clinical assessments, as needed, and develops/implements individualized treatment/service objectives
• Taught psychoeducation classes on recovery (e. g., medication side effects, ADL, communication skills, stress management strategies)
• Plans and facilitates community-based activities (e. g., medical appointments, grocery shopping, leisure/recreation/socialization); facilitates access to community resources (e. g., AA/NA meetings, school, job placement)
• Contributes to a safe and therapeutic environment by practicing verbal de-escalation and, as authorized, other behavior management techniques
• Serves as “ambassador” of SCS and its clients by integrating clients into the community and educating community members about people with disabilities and about SCS’s services and programming
• Collaborates with community systems on behalf of individuals served (e. g., school, landlord, family, transportation provider, employer)
• Provides transportation (e. g., driving SCS van or personal vehicle), ensuring adherence to standard safety practices (e. g., driver certification, seat belts, child safety seats); teaches and facilitates use of public transportation systems
• Provides personal care, as needed (e. g., personal hygiene, toileting, laundry, meal preparation, safe eating techniques)
• Provides individualized crisis assistance, consistent with individual’s treatment/service plan (i. e, initiating Mental Inquest Warrant, facilitating care from another provider, completing suicide risk assessment)
• Administers First Aid and CPR, as needed
• Supervises self-administered medication, serving as the program’s “point person” for supervised self-administered medication (SSAM), or administers medication, depending on the specific clinical program’s protocols
• Identifies assigned clients’ food and/or medication allergies and exercises reasonable care to avoid exposure to allergens
• Communicates information relevant to care, treatment, and services, with other SCS staff members and, as authorized, with non-SCS providers, to ensure appropriate level and quality of care
• May take responsibility for specific assignments within the program (e. g., Clubhouse food program, admissions at Crisis Stabilization Unit)
• Provides formal training to Community Support Providers and Community Support Specialists and/or serves as mentor or shift leader
• Documents services and care provided by timely completing various forms in accordance with SCS and regulatory standards
• Maintains confidentiality of protected health information, consistent with SCS procedures and state and federal law
• Attends and participates in all required staff and service planning meetings and trainings
• Maintains and enhances skills for working with clients

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in sociology, psychology, social work*, or human services, or any other field relevant to care or services to individuals with disabilities
• Successfully complete, within six months of hire, the department led or approved training program per Medicaid regulations
• Completion of all required trainings within 6 months of hire date

Experience

• One year full time experience working with individuals who receive services for treatment of mental health or co-occurring disorder

Physical Demands/Requirements

• Position involves considerable physical exertion, lifting a maximum of 100 pounds, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 50 pounds
• May include frequent lifting of patients

Time Type

• Full time