Community Support Specialist Adult Service Liberty

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| Summary: | |
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| Pine Belt Mental Healthcare | |
| Resources is seeking an energetic | |
| and motivated Community Support | |
| Specialist to work with adults | |
| and children who have a serious | |
| mental illness in Amite County. | |
| Position is located in Liberty, | |
| MS. The Community Support | |
| Specialist position plays an | |
| important role in providing | |
| individualized support and | |
| guidance to assist with daily | |
| challenges for adults in Forrest | |
| County. No on-call duties | |
| required with this position. The | |
| ideal candidate would have | |
| previous behavioral health | |
| experience and the ability to | |
| work independently to find | |
| resources for the consumers | |
| served. | |
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| For 50 years, Pine Belt Mental | |
| Healthcare Resources has served | |
| individuals throughout the Pine | |
| Belt.  Through an extensive | |
| continuum of care, we strive to | |
| enable adults with serious mental | |
| illnesses, children with serious | |
| emotional disturbances, and | |
| individuals with an addiction or | |
| developmental disability to live, | |
| work, learn, and participate | |
| fully in their communities.  Our | |
| eighteen county service area | |
| includes Amite, Covington, | |
| Forrest, Franklin, Greene, | |
| Hancock, Harrison, Jefferson | |
| Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, | |
| Marion, Pearl River, Perry, Pike, | |
| Stone, Wayne and Walthall | |
| Counties.  | |
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| Requirements: | |
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| – Bachelors degree in | |
| behavioral healthcare | |
| required | |
| – Must have reliable | |
| transportation to provide | |
| community services | |
| – Must have a valid drivers | |
| license with a satisfactory | |
| driving record | |
| – Must be able to obtain a DMH | |
| case management certification | |
| within 90 days of hire | |
| – Excellent communications | |
| skills required | |
| – Experience working with SMI | |
| population preferred | |
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| Responsibilities: | |
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| – Identifies strengths which | |
| will aid in the individual in | |
| their recovery and the | |
| barriers that will challenge | |
| the development of skills | |
| necessary for independent | |
| functioning in the community. | |
| – Provides psychoeducation on | |
| the identification and | |
| self-management of prescribed | |
| medication regimen and | |
| communicates with the | |
| prescribing provider. | |
| – Assists the individual in | |
| accessing needed services | |
| such as medical, social, | |
| educational, transportation, | |
| housing, substance abuse, | |
| personal care, employment, | |
| and other services that may | |
| be identified in the Recovery | |
| Support Plan. | |
| – Provides psychoeducation and | |
| trains family, unpaid | |
| caregivers, and/or others who | |
| have a legitimate role in | |
| addressing the needs of the | |
| individual. | |
| – Monitors and evaluates the | |
| effectiveness of | |
| interventions, as evidenced | |
| by symptom reduction and | |
| progress toward goals. | |
| – Provides direct interventions | |
| in deescalating situations to | |
| prevent crisis. |