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Job Description
The Opportunity : Community Support Specialist
Job Type : Full-time, On-Site
Pay : $55,000 / year
Who We Are VOAMASS gives members of the community who need help the most the services, support, and self-esteem they need to create a fresh start.
At VOAMASS, our dedicated teams are committed to serving the whole person.
As a Community Support Specialist (CSS), you'll have a dynamic and critical role providing intensive case management services with the goal of increasing the likelihood of the client's ability to sustain positive change.
Employing VOAMASS's Integrated Care Model, the Community Support Specialist plays an essential role providing services for clients in our Community Mental Health Clinics, residential treatment programs, and with our community-based clients.
As a Community Support Specialist, you will deliver services on a mobile basis to best support a client's treatment plan and to help them attain the skills and resources needed to maintain community tenure.
In this role, you will provide specialized case management for clients experiencing the following significant life challenges :
Work with housing courts, client landlords, and other community-based service providers to address housing barriers.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health : Foster your clients' empowerment, recovery, and wellness and increase their independence, including management of their own behavioral health and medical services.
This role is about making a difference in the lives of the people we serve. To help support our clients, you'll bring the following qualifications :
To best serve our clients, your key responsibilities will involve :
Telehealth can be used as appropriate; however, this is allowed on a case-by-case basis based on clients' needs and requests.
Since 1934, VOAMASS has provided critical services to the residents of the Commonwealth. From pioneering early residential treatment programs in the 1960's to leading today in the field of mental health programming, VOAMASS can be counted on to tackle our greatest challenges.
For full-time employees, which includes our Community Support Specialist, we offer a comprehensive and generous benefits package which includes :
VOAMASS is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Compensation details : 55000-55000 Yearly Salary
PI9e826467150f-25405-34077146
Full Time
Social & Legal Services
$64k-83k (estimate)
03/24/2024
04/10/2024
voamass.org
BOSTON, MA
25 - 50
1934
MIKE HERRON
$5M - $10M
Social & Legal Services
Volunteers of America of Massachusetts helps more than 3,000 individuals and their families annually through an array of residential and outpatient services including Residential Treatment Services, Veteran Services, Re-Entry, Outpatient Behavioral Health Treatment, and Independent and Assisted Living for seniors. VOA is committed to helping those in need reach their full potential through comprehensive treatment that gives people the skills, tools, and support to restore emotional and financial independence. We puts clients first. We focus on client strengths, needs, abilities, and their pref...erences, specializing in client-centered, trauma-informed care based on a harm reduction framework. Our programs are safe and supportive with the ultimate goal of every client to be self-sufficient and successfully reach their full potential in work, family, and relationships. Our clients arrive in our care in acute crisis; not only are they in the early phase of substance use and disorder treatment, they are likely to have a mental health diagnosis, be homeless, disengaged from the labor market, lost child custody, justice-involved, and experience chronic relapse and demoralized by feelings of shame and self-punishment. Simply put, we engage with the hardest to serve clients.
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