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Community Support Specialist
$51k-68k (estimate)
Full Time | Ambulatory Healthcare Services 9 Months Ago
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Preferred Family Healthcare, Inc. is Hiring a Community Support Specialist Near Springfield, MO

We’re a Good Family to Know:

Looking to feed your desire to give to your community and support those who need a helping hand? Look no further! Preferred Family Healthcare (PFH) is a community-based healthcare organization that offers a full array of integrated services, serving more than 100,000 individuals each year in nearly 100 locations throughout Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Illinois.

Our greatest reward has been the opportunity to serve families and communities in need for the past 40 years. At PFH, our future is brighter than ever! With changes in leadership, focused priorities and strong core values, PFH remains a “Good Family to Know!”

Your role at PFH:

As a Community Support Specialist, you are responsible for assisting clients/patients to access needed resources in the community and provide community support services for individuals with mental health and/or substance use disorders. Community Support may be provided onsite and/or offsite within the community.
You will:

  • Provide a holistic, person-centered care with emphasis on personal strengths, skill acquisition and harm reduction, while using stage-wise and motivational approaches that promote active participation by the individual in decision making and self-advocacy in all aspects of services and recovery/resiliency.
  • Use interventions, based on individual strengths and needs, to develop interpersonal/social, family, community and independent living functional skills including adaptation to home, school, family and work environments when the natural acquisition of those skills is negatively impacted by the individual’s mental health and /or substance use disorder.
  • Facilitate and support recovery/resiliency through activities including: defining recovery/resiliency concepts in order to develop and attain recovery/resiliency goals; identifying needs, strengths, skills, resources and supports and teaching how to use them; and identifying barriers to recovery/resiliency and finding ways to overcome them.
  • Develop, implement, update, and revise as needed, a treatment plan that identifies specific, measurable and individualized interventions to reduce and manage symptoms, improve functioning and develop stability and independence. This plan is developed by a team consisting of the following as appropriate: the individual, family, community support specialist, community support supervisor, therapist, medication providers, schools, child welfare, courts and other supports.

We think you'd be great for this role if you have or can get:

Qualifying experience must include delivery of services to individuals with mental health disorders, substance use disorders or developmental disabilities. Experience must include some combination of the following:
Providing one-on-one or group services with a rehabilitation/habilitation and recovery/resiliency focus;
Teaching and modeling for individuals how to cope and manage psychiatric, developmental or substance use issues while encouraging the use of natural resources;
Supporting efforts to find and maintain employment for individuals and/or to function appropriately in families, school and communities;
Assisted individuals to achieve the goals and objectives on their individualized treatment or person centered plans.

You'll love being a part of our family because:

Our associates are our most valuable asset! We understand the role their satisfaction plays in the quality of services they provide. Through encouragement, our associates are empowered to optimize their strengths through ongoing training to ensure they are equipped and feel competent to serve our clients.

Our human resources team wants to let you know what’s required:

Employment is conditional upon the receipt of appropriate background checks. Upon offer of employment, you must grant permission for Preferred Family Healthcare to verify accuracy, legitimacy, and results in regards to the following conditions of employment:

  • Background check that includes criminal history and abuse/ neglect.
  • Motor vehicle driving record check.
  • Education and license/certification verification (if applicable).
  • Employment and/or personal reference checks.

The physical demands vary depending on the support required by the client. While performing the duties of this job, the associate at times will be required to stoop, bend, use fine motor skills in extremities for cooking, cleaning, medication administration and operation of a vehicle, etc. The associate may be required to assist with physical transfers or lifting, depending on the needed support of the clients.

Job Summary

JOB TYPE

Full Time

INDUSTRY

Ambulatory Healthcare Services

SALARY

$51k-68k (estimate)

POST DATE

06/25/2022

EXPIRATION DATE

04/15/2024

HEADQUARTERS

CARTHAGE, MO

SIZE

500 - 1,000

FOUNDED

2016

REVENUE

$5M - $10M

INDUSTRY

Ambulatory Healthcare Services

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