Vocational Specialist

About the role

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a comprehensive community-based treatment program for persons with severe and persistent mental illness. The ACT Team is a multi-disciplinary group of mental health professionals organized to help provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to consumers in the community.

Responsibilities

• Carry out rehabilitation and support functions with consumers
• Assist in treatment through implementing substance abuse services, providing education, support, and consultation to families, and providing crisis intervention
• Communicate with consumer on a weekly basis to determine progress and revise the service plan as necessary
• Assist consumers with resolution of problems and/or concerns
• Develop and enhance consumer network of vocational supports with their families in the community, neighborhood, and workplace settings
• Observe and respond to significant changes in consumer mental and physical health and communicate changes to the consumer's treatment team
• Collaborate with county Office of Mental Health/Intellectual Disability personnel and other service providers involved in the consumer's treatment to assess consumer needs and provide the most appropriate services
• Provide 24 hour a day, 7 day per week on-call crisis services on a rotational basis
• Maintain case records and complete appropriate documentation, letters, assessments and summaries as needed or designated by established policies and procedures
• Develop treatment plans and crisis plans based on the client's strengths and needs
• Gain an understanding of the client's relevant personal, familial, social, vocational, and cultural data
• Prepare and complete all necessary documentation, including assessments, new consumer admissions, medication records, progress notes, incident reports, treatment and crisis plans and miscellaneous paperwork/reports within required timeframes as requested
• Assist the client in gaining funding authorization for needed services and entitlements
• Participate in agency investigations
• Provide individual vocational supportive counseling, and establish vocational and career goals, and plans that recognize symptoms of mental illness that interfere with work
• Plan and provide work related supportive services including development of job seeking skills, development of jobs based on client abilities and interest, job coaching and support on both on and off the job site
• Develop and maintain relationships with employers in the community setting
• Attend daily team meetings and individual supervision
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Requirements

• Ability to access community resources
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Problem solving skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Cognizance to observe and respond to significant changes in consumer mental and physical health
• Team player
• Flexibility to provide 24/7 on-call crisis services on a rotational basis
• Time management skills
• Ability to follow policies and procedures
• Ability to meet basic work expectations, including arriving on time as scheduled
• Complete criminal background check
• Name checked in registries (OIG exclusions database, Child Abuse Registry, and Offenders Against Individuals with Developmental Disabilities)
• Drug testing
• Education verification and other credentialing based on position requirements
• Proof of employment history or references (if required)
• For positions that require driving: Proof of driver's license, driver's insurance, and vehicle, IF required for providing transportation for individuals

Pay

$21+ per hour depending on experience. Stay bonus: $2,000 paid in 3 increments — $400 at 3 months, $600 at 6 months, $1,000 at 12 months.

Benefits

• Payactiv: early access to the money you've earned from hours you've already worked, before payday
• Employee perks and discount program
• Paid Time Off (full-time employees only)
• Health/Insurance (full-time employees only)
• 401(k) retirement savings program
• Wellbeing Programs: Physical, Emotional and Financial
• Chronic Disease management programs for hypertension and diabetes (for qualifying employees)
• Training: Free CPR, first aid, and job-specific training opportunities

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