Recovery Support Specialist - Bilingual Living Room - Full Time

$1000 Sign on Bonus

The Association for Individual Development (AID) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower people with physical developmental intellectual mental health challenges; those who have suffered a trauma; and those at risk to enjoy lives of dignity and purpose. We are looking for aRecovery Support Specialist Bilingual who demonstrates this mission and wants to work for an organization that makes a difference in the community.

Schedule: 12hr shifts 6:00am6:00pm and/or 6:00pm6:00am. 80 hours in a 2 week pay period.

What you will be doing

• The Living Room Recovery Support Specialist is an individual with lived mental health service experience. The RSS is the first point of contact greeting and welcoming all who enter the Living Room.
• The RSS conducts assessments and develops crisis stabilization plans in collaboration with the client and clients identified supports. The RSS will provide education and linkage to community recovery support systems develop and facilitate positive relationships between consumers and team members provide aid & support increase participant motivation for services assist with utilizing appropriate coping mechanisms and reduce barriers to services by educating consumers about services natural community supports and transportation.
• The RSS will participate in AIDs internal RSS committee and will complete continuing education yearly to maintain their CRSS certificate.
• This job position may have some work components that can be performed remotely. Remote work arrangements are not a right or entitlement of employment. They are discretionary and subject to demonstrated performance and operational needs. Approval may be rescinded at any time at the sole discretion of management.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Attend to scheduled work hours and be flexible to meet client and program needs as assigned by Program Manager or Director.
• Act as primary to triage and assist individuals in crisis.
• Responsible to provide independent program coverage when scheduled.
• Provide effective individual crisis counseling
• Use intervention tactics to reduce symptomology.
• Ensure the delivery of quality Living Room services and ensuring documentation of assessments suicide assessments crisis stabilization plans and appropriate referrals are completed.
• Administer screening tools including crisis assessments suicide/homicide assessments and develop crisis stabilization plans.
• Offer and complete intake paperwork to provide a smooth transition to open client to long term behavioral health services during their interaction at the Living Room.
• Assist with maintaining and monitoring safety coordinate engagement contribute to a welcoming atmosphere and provide support for expediting linkage to other programs.
• Provide education and linkage to community recovery support systems develop and facilitate positive relationships between consumers and team members provide aid & support increase participant motivation for services assist with utilizing appropriate coping mechanisms and reduce barriers to services by educating consumers about services natural community supports and transportation.
• Build immediate rapport provide emotional support and validation to individuals in crisis.
• Utilize motivational interviewing in triage to complete suicide/homicide lethality checklists to determine the severity of the individual and to determine the appropriateness of the Living Room.
• Utilize deescalation techniques through active listening emotional support trauma informed care and crisis intervention services.
• Repeat a suicide lethality assessment prior to the individual leaving the Living Room.
• Assist in providing individualized coping skills and resources and will incorporate the development of an effective crisis stabilization plan that are clientcentered.
• Assist clients in returning back to their natural environment when stabilization is complete.

What will we provide Full Time employees. BenefitsSummary.pdf

• $1000 sign on bonus for fulltime
• 21 Days of Paid Time Off plus 10 Paid Holidays
• Paid training
• Tuition reimbursement
• Benefits including Medical Dental Vision Life STD LTD Critical Illness and accident insurance
• 401K with a 3.5 company contribution after one year.