Community Support Specialist

PROGRAM: Mississippi Behavioral Health Services, LLC

REPORTS TO: Director of Community Support Services; Clinical Manager

SUPERVISED BY: Director of Community Support Services, Clinical Manager (LMHP);

Case Manager; Psychiatrist

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides individual Community Support Services (CSS) services in the community.
• Assists clients in developing goals for treatment within the first 14 days of service.
• Assists clients in restoring, rehabilitating, and developing social and interpersonal skills.
• Identify, enhance, and establish support networks, community awareness, coping strategies, and improve functioning in the individual’s social environments (home, work, school).
• Help restore, rehabilitate, and support the development of daily living skills.
• Help improve each client’s self-management of the negative effects of psychiatric or emotional symptoms.
• Assists clients in identifying, effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors (“triggers”) that lead to functional impairments.
• Help implement Crisis Management Plan on an ongoing basis.
• Participate in collaborative meetings with Mississippi Behavioral Health Services staff, other agencies or community and natural supports as needed.
• Provide Crisis Intervention services to recipients as needed according to agency policies, procedures, and service definitions.
• Communicate client’s status on a regular basis, including, but not limited to changes in mood or functioning, medical issues and all crisis and health and safety issues.
• Be knowledgeable of and adept at producing effective, clinical documentation of every contact with the recipient.
• Turning in notes on time according to policy. Document all “no shows,” and communicate all difficulties contacting clients with the appropriate office staff.
• Be able, or willing to learn, to use computer interface to complete documentation for billing or other purposes as needed.
• Attend all office trainings as well as regular clinical supervision sessions with Clinical Manager and/or Case Manager.
• Document services provided regularly, concisely, and completely in accordance with clinical standards by office deadline.
• Return phone calls promptly
• Follow all safety rules
• Other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Has a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science degree in a mental health related field; or
• Is Credentialed as a Community Support Specialist by the Mississippi Department of Mental Health