JOB DESCRIPTION: Behavioral Health Specialist – Veterans Program
DEPARTMENT: VA Services
REPORTS TO: Veterans Program Supervisor
FLSA STATUS: Salary – Non – Exempt
CLASSIFICATION: Full Time (40 HRS)
Shift: Monday – Friday (time will be discussed)
Work location: On-site
COMPENSATION: $46,000 Employee benefit package eligible for full time
PROBATION PERIOD: 90 – Days
PURPOSE:
The Behavioral Specialist is responsible for providing client centered counseling services and evidence based strategies that support program participants with their desire to end their current condition of homelessness; obtain employment; and to become stably housed. This position will support and provide services to Guests that reside in one of Gateway Center’s Residential Programs. The person in this position will provide mental health assessments and ensure linkage to other behavioral health care services. The position will work collaboratively with each participant’s residential program case manager to ensure that individual service plan accounts for any mental and or/social development issues.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Behavioral Specialist will be responsible for providing behavioral health support and the facilitation of psycho-educational groups. The Behavioral specialist will assist in preventing relapse in conditions that tend to recur over time. The Behavioral Specialist maintains an awareness of state and national health care trends and proactively responds with initiatives to enhance provision of care and ensure efficient resource utilization. The Behavioral Specialist works closely with the agency’s Case Managers, Guest Service Agents and Peer Specialists.
The overall goals of the position are to improve the client’s ability to access and comply with behavioral health treatment, become employable or gain access to benefits; and to identify housing options that support the client in being stably housed at discharge.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
QUALIFICATIONS:
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by n employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is required
to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to airborne pathogens. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION:
Gateway Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis
of race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, citizenship, sex, marital or veteran status, disability or handicap, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Gateway Center also takes affirmative action to employ, and advance in employment, qualified women, minorities and covered veterans. Gateway Center also makes reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, in accordance with the Americans With Disabilities Act and applicable state laws.
Since 2005, Gateway Center (GWC) has been committed to providing effective, strategic and innovative solutions as part of our collaborative model.
GWC is a proven leader and has positioned ourselves to be adaptable to respond to the needs of the homeless community. GWC programs are designed to address the underlying barriers that prevent individuals and families from transitioning out of homelessness, such as unemployment, behavioral health, housing affordability, and/or medical conditions. We provide a trauma informed and a client-centered environment where individuals can receive the tools they need to end their homelessness and achieve self-sufficiency. To ensure the alignment of services, Gateway Center has focused our efforts into our Five Keys to Success (1) Housing Placement and Stability, (2) Health and Wellness, (3) Family and Community Engagement, (4) Job Skills Training and Placement, and (5) Literacy.
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