Wellness Specialist

About the role

Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services offers a supportive team atmosphere and a dynamic environment for employees and the people we serve. We invest in our employees through competitive compensation and benefits, best practice training, and fostering a team-oriented culture that promotes career development.

Responsibilities

• Provides wellness assessment and direct services to people with serious mental illness enrolled in the PACT Program.
• Develops psychosocial and comprehensive assessments and an individualized recovery plan.
• Ensures timely and quality documentation to adhere to DMHAS/Medicaid standards.
• Participates in clinical and non-clinical team meetings, including individual and team supervision.
• Sets up monthly supervision from supervisor.
• Teaches skills to support each person's individualized recovery journey and community integration.
• Assists in securing safe, clean, affordable housing, food, and clothing, and provides linkage to entitlement benefits.
• Observes and assesses service recipients' concerns, mental illness symptoms, and behaviors in response to medication, and monitors for medication side effects.
• Provides medication education for individuals and families/significant others with service recipients' consent.
• Coordinates services with other community mental health and non-mental health providers, as well as other medical professionals.
• Trains and instructs individuals at home and in the community on personal hygiene tasks, household chores, money management, and community transportation.
• Provides wellness services including education and cognitive/behavioral interventions on nutrition, diet, exercise, stress reduction strategies, and other wellness tools.
• Rapidly and flexibly responds to crises, including accompanying individuals to screening centers/psychiatric emergency centers and remaining with them during the assessment process.
• Uses evidence-based practices such as Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Interventions, and Teaching.
• Develops and implements Wellness Recovery Action Plans, instilling hope, promoting choice and empowerment, and incorporating spirituality, in conjunction with the team.
• Supports the service recipient's family and other members of their social network to help manage symptoms and reduce stress.
• Provides education to assist the service recipient and family to relate positively and supportively.

Requirements

• Master’s degree and one-year experience in the provision of MH services, or
• Bachelor’s degree in a behavioral health science from an accredited institution and two years’ experience in the provision of MH services, or
• Associate’s degree in Psychiatric Rehabilitation and two years’ experience in the provision of mental health services.

Valid driver’s license required - No more than one moving violation within the past 12 months. Vehicle required.

Excellent Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 403b
• Basic life and AD&D
• Flexible spending accounts
• EAPEligible for medical benefits after 30 days of employment
• Flexible work schedules
• Clinical training series
• Leadership development program
• 10 paid holidays (an 11th after 2 years of employment)
• Generous vacation and sick time

Equal Opportunity Employer