Housing Support Specialist Float - Part-Time

Housing Support Specialist – Pendleton Place (Part‑Time, 20 hrs/week). The specialist empowers, educates, teaches, and assists clients who are severely and persistently mentally ill and participants in the agency’s housing program, helping them maintain community tenure and develop skills for more independent living.

Pay

$24.94 – $30.55 per hour

Schedule

Part‑Time, 20 hours per week

Responsibilities

• Assist in coordinating, improving, and implementing agency treatment philosophy, program goals, and activities.
• Provide a therapeutic environment per program standards and housing supportive goals, including skills development and transportation of residents as required.
• Develop positive rapport and good working relationships with clients in the housing program.
• Perform the FCS assessment and recertification with clients, collecting supporting documentation and creating individual person‑centered client goals (education, training, coaching, dispute resolution, advocacy).
• Learn and implement the PSH Fidelity model.
• Assist consumer learning and development of simple and complex skills through training, demonstration, and observation (cooking, cleaning, money management, symptom management, social interaction, and other recovery skills).
• Provide structure as needed for clients, such as helping a client create a weekly housework schedule, taking a group shopping regularly, or prompting a less‑abled client on specific cleaning tasks.
• Use skills to encourage development, monitoring, and completion of housing goals.
• Maintain contact with the Crisis Response Team, housing team, and clinical team.
• Report salient observations of client mental status, conditions posing increased risk, indications of deterioration or improvement, and take appropriate action when clients are missing, ill, injured, or otherwise impaired.
• Document unusual events on incident reports and consult with appropriate agency personnel regarding required actions.
• Participate in the development of transitional planning for residents graduating to more independent living situations.
• Demonstrate effective medication observation and documentation for consumers whose medications are being monitored.
• Work cooperatively and collaboratively as a team member and assist in building positive working relationships with staff of all agency departments.
• Provide backup to staff in other programs as needed, when schedule permits.
• Communicate regularly with other KMHS assigned to each client’s care regarding needs, progress, and emergency situations (decompensation, unsanitary or unhealthy conditions, exploitation).
• Document all services thoroughly, accurately, and submit documentation in a timely manner per agency policy and WAC requirements.
• Perform any other responsibilities appropriate to the position and not specifically listed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education / Experience: Bachelor’s degree in psychology, social services, or behavioral health field OR four or more years of relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Licensure: Agency‑affiliated counselor registration.
• Driving Requirements: Must meet agency driving standards, including minimum age of 21, successful motor vehicle history check, a current valid Washington driver’s license, and reliable, insured transportation.
• Mental / Physical Requirements:
  • Ability to maintain audio and visual observation at all times.
  • Ability to stand and be mobile for long periods; bend, twist, reach, hold, and lift as needed for protective holds against client weight (40‑250 lb).
  • Ability to lift and carry items up to 50 lb.
  • Ability to remain calm and utilize safety training in potentially assaultive client interactions.
  • Ability to move quickly and confidently to assist or intervene in stressful situations.
  • Successful completion of safety training demonstrating balance, torso twist, forward bend, pivot, sidestep, forward/backward step, crouch, secure limb placement, knee touch to ground, kneel, and ability to get up from floor‑sitting or kneeling positions.