Plymouth, MA

Mental Health Advocate $40k-Perm Job Duties and Responsibilities: • Provide case management for an assigned group of persons served including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team (ITT); assume primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating and revising overall IAP goals and plans in conjunction with the ITT in providing individual supportive therapy and symptom management, ensuring immediate changes are made in the IAP as persons served needs change; educate and support persons served families, and advocate for persons served rights and preferences. • Conduct comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history (e.g., onset, course and effect of illness, past treatment and responses, and risk behaviors), mental status, and diagnosis; physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living (e.g., self-care, living situation, nutrition, money management); and family structure and relationships. • Acts as liaison and consult with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process. • Perform shift management in coordination with other PACT shift managers according to established policies and procedures. • Provide on-call crisis intervention covering nighttime hours and weekends. • Document persons served progress to maintain a permanent record of persons served activity according to established methods and procedures. • Provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services, with some interventions directed or performed by staff with specialty training and skills (e.g., Substance Abuse Specialist). • Provide symptom education to enable persons served to identify their mental illness symptoms. • Provide direct clinical services to person served on an individual, group, and family basis in the office and in community settings to teach behavioral symptom-management techniques to alleviate and manage symptoms not reduced with medication and to promote personal growth and development by assisting person served to adapt to and cope with internal and external stresses. • Take a lead role or participate in the provision of rehabilitation services. • Provide individual vocational-supportive counseling to enable persons served to identify vocational strengths and problems, establish vocational and career goals and plans to reach them, and recognize and target symptoms of mental illness that interfere with work. • Plan and provide work-related supportive services, such as assistance with grooming and personal hygiene, securing of appropriate clothing, wake-up calls, and transportation. • Teach job-seeking skills. • Develop individualized jobs based on person served needs, abilities, and interests. • Conduct on-the-job performance assessments and evaluations, regular work review sessions with person served and their employers, on-the-job support, and crisis-assistance contacts. • Perform job coaching, problem solving, and support on and off the job site. • Coordinate with state vocational rehabilitation and other-employment services. • Provide benefits counseling (e.g., Supplemental Security Income (SSI) veterans; benefits). • Ensure that persons served have adequate financial support (e.g., help to gain employment or apply for entitlements). • Teach money-management skills (e.g., budgeting and bill paying) and assist persons served in accessing financial services (e.g., professional financial counseling, emergency loan sources). • Help persons served to access reliable transportation (e.g., obtain a driver's license and car, arrange for cabs, access bus line, find rides). Knowledge and Skills: • Sensitivity to cultural, religious, racial, disability, and gender issues • Knowledge and use of advocacy techniques • Knowledge and use of different communication styles • Skills and competence to establish supportive trusting relationships with program persons served • Respect for persons served rights and personal preferences in treatment • Knowledge of human, legal, civil rights, community, and other resources • Skills and competence in the use of formal and informal assessment tools and practices • Ability to work independently as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team • Skills and competence to use crisis intervention techniques • Strong commitment to the right and ability of program person served to live, work, and seek supports as the general population at large • Knowledge of therapy and teaching modalities • Clinical skills Typical Requirements: • Demonstrated experience working with people with SMI in employment rehabilitation settings. • Master’s degree in a human service discipline required. • Certification in vocational rehabilitation preferred. Driving Requirements: • Driving is a requirement for this position. If using a personal vehicle, you must possess and maintain adequate insurance as well as maintain a safe driving record which is subject to annual checks. A valid driver’s license must be presented at the time of employment. Incumbents must be at least 21 years of age, have maintained a valid US driver’s license for at least one year, and must be able to pass a driver’s screening background check.

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Administrative

Posted on May 24, 2023