Comprehensive Community Services - Human Services Professional I

About the role

Under the direction of the CCS Program Manager and CCS Supervisor, work involves providing comprehensive, person-centered, team based, community treatment to youth and families living with mental illness, substance abuse or co-occurring disorders receiving services through the Comprehensive Community Services Program.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychosocial rehab services in the form of clinical case management that are person-centered, trauma informed, team oriented, and community based in accordance with DHS 36 (and other relevant program codes).
• Complete functional screens, Reaching Recovery tools, comprehensive assessments, recovery plans, and discharge documents within appropriate time frames.
• Complete other state reporting requirements.
• Carefully coordinate and monitor clinically relevant treatment plans and teams ensuring that services are culturally competent, recovery oriented and involve consumer participation.
• Testify at any civil commitment hearings if required.
• Advocate for, develop, and support community resources to keep people in the most natural and least restrictive living environment.
• Respond to team emergencies as requested and needed.
• Support and cover for team members as appropriate.
• Regularly assess and communicate consumer mental status, areas of functioning, suicide and homicide risk, safety concerns, achievement towards goals, and symptom patterns.
• Maintain prompt communication with family members, team members, Crisis, and collateral agencies.
• Provide direct psychosocial rehabilitation services, as detailed in the recovery plan.
• Interventions may include but are not limited to: psychoeducation, skill development, and recovery support services.
• Provide team and individual direction on clinical strategy and intervention when consultation is needed.
• Complete administrative tasks in accordance with DHS 36, Social Security and Medicaid, other codes, and policy and procedure requirements.
• Using the appropriate format, accurately document all consumer contacts in the designated database, provide detail in each note as required to both communicate important clinical information and provide justification for billing.
• Document 100% of your time in Avatar and complete timesheets as required.
• Attend in-services, trainings, division/department meetings, committee meetings and trainings as requested or approved by your supervisor.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required in a relevant area of education or human services from an accredited college or university (DHS 36.10(2)(g)15)
• Psychology and social work degrees preferred.
• Must possess and maintain a current unrestricted (not due to corrective lenses) driver's license and auto insurance pursuant to the Rock County Administrative Policy and Procedure Policy 5.02 and 5.27.
• Must complete 20-40 hours of training specific to CCS and DHS 36 within three months of hire date.