[Hiring] Wellness Specialist @Services for the Underserved

Role Description

The Wellness Specialist provides services and consultation as a member of a mobile multi-disciplinary treatment team (ACT team).

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Participates in daily treatment review meetings.
• Provides support to all specialists on the team, addressing overall consumer wellness.
• Serves as a backup to the substance abuse specialist when absent.
• Provides support around all services with regards to wellness, medication management, health, appointments, and other individualized goals.
• Responsible for documentation of services provided, particularly in the development of the services plans.
• Ensures revisions to the plan as the participant’s needs change.
• Advocates for the rights and preferences of the participant’s needs change.
• Develops wellness interventions, activities, and groups, drawing from the Wellness Self-Management (WSM) curriculum and other resources.
• Educates participants about self-help techniques, processes, and community options.
• Teaches coping strategies based on personal experience.
• Assists participants with acquiring symptom management skills.
• Assists in identifying and clarifying rehabilitation and recovery goals.
• Assists in the development of community support systems and networks.
• Practices according to the principles of recovery-oriented and trauma-informed service delivery.
• Comprehensive ACT service activities include:
  • Assessing and providing services to participants to address health and wellness, housing, income support, education, vocational training, employment, and social supports.
  • Completing initial comprehensive recovery-oriented service plan and 6-month plan review incorporating participant and relevant others’ feedback.
• Provides ACT treatment services including:
  • Service planning and coordination.
  • Problem solving.
  • Support with obtaining housing.
  • Developing social connections.
  • Strengthening family and other relationships.
  • Developing independent living skills and obtaining necessary resources.
  • Accessing education and training.
  • Employment supports (job search, placement, and support).
  • Entitlement and financial management.
  • Empowerment and self-help.
  • Wellness self-management with a focus on the development of coping skills.
  • Support with medications.
  • Weekly groups.
• Uses motivational interviewing, recovery, and trauma-informed approaches when delivering services.
• Completes crisis intervention and relapse prevention plans.
• Collaborates with participants, families, and natural supports, shelter, and community partners to promote attainment of treatment and recovery goals.
• Coordinates discharge in collaboration with inpatient and ER staff when participants have involvement.
• Completes thorough, timely, and accurate documentation and adequate authorization records consistent with billing, regulatory, policy, and contractual requirements.
• Completes expected minimum monthly treatment contacts of which 80% occur in the community.
• Provides 24-hour crisis intervention on-call services on a rotating basis.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, rehabilitation counseling, or a related field.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Requirements

• One year of experience working with adults with severe mental illness.
• Bilingual in any language a plus (not required).
• Basic computer skills (e.g. MS Office suite and Windows).

Benefits

• Health and wellness resources.
• Generous PTO.
• Professional development.
• More benefits available on the Benefits Page.

Company Description

S:US is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in fostering a culture built on our core values: respect, integrity, support, maximizing individual potential, and continuous quality improvement.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information, including all other statuses protected by Federal, State, and Local laws.

S:US is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities, including allowance of the use of service animals.

To request reasonable accommodation or if you believe such a request was improperly handled or denied, contact the Leave Team at [email protected].