Life Coach- Portsmouth, Suffolk and Franklin areas

TASKS and RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain a caseload, ensuring the provision of Mental Health Skill-Building Services to adults through goal-directed training in the following areas; functional skills and appropriate behaviors related to the individual’s health and safety, activities of daily living, use of community resources (including but limited to supporting clients with locating shelter/housing, financial and food assistance, etc.), assistance with medication management, and monitoring health, nutrition and physical condition.
• Provide mental health skill building services that are reflective of the attention to the individual’s specific needs.
• Provide supportive counseling/crisis intervention services to individuals as needed.
• Develop, maintain, and effectively implement the client's Individualized Service Plan.
• Develop and review client's quarterly and monthly reports.
• Develop, implement, and review client's discharge plans.
• Produce high quality, punctual, and accurate documentation of all casework consistent with Virginia Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Services licensure and agency policies.
• Maintain thorough records of all services being provided to clients.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings and agency trainings.
• Coincide care to ensure client's health challenges are addressed.
• Participate in individual and group supervisions.
• Maintain ongoing communication with program staff and other treatment providers as necessary.
• Transport client(s) to appointments and etc.

Qualifications

The Virginia Board of Counseling recognizes the following degrees as “human services or related fields”: Art Therapy Behavioral Sciences Child Development Child and Family Studies/Services Cognitive Sciences Community Mental Health Counseling (Mental health, Vocational, Pastoral, etc.) Counselor Education Early Childhood Development Education (with a focus in psychology and/or special education) Educational Psychology Family Development/Relations Gerontology Health and Human Services Human Development Human Services Marriage and Family Therapy Music Therapy Nursing Psychiatric Rehabilitation Psychology Rehabilitation Counseling School Counseling Social Work Special Education Therapeutic Recreation Vocational Rehabilitation Sociology – (accepted until May 31, 2021)