Title: Community Connector (Mental Health Services)
Company: Vinfen
Salary: $49,733.00
Location: Somerville, MA
Schedule: Monday - Friday: 9AM - 5PM (40 hours per week)
Summary: The Community Connector will work to ensure successful community integration by connecting adults with psychiatric conditions with available community resources to promote successful integration into their communities. This role helps support Person Served as citizens living within communities and works to ensure that everyone has access to community resources and social networks within the community.
The Community Connector will provide both Person Served and staff with information about community resources and entitlements/benefits available to them. This position will also provide interventions to support Person Served in preparing for, seeking and keeping wanted employment and/or educational opportunities.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Unlicensed Master’s level or very experienced direct care staff with Bachelors' degree preferred.
- Must have access to an operational and insured vehicle and be willing to use it to transport PS.
- Strong preference given to bilingual/bicultural applicants and applicants with lived experience of psychiatric conditions.
Additional Certifications Required:
CPR required within first two weeks of hire
First Aid required within two weeks of hire
MAP required within 150 days of hire
Knowledge and Skills:
- Strong commitment to the right and ability of people served by ACCS to live, work, have meaningful relationships and receive the clinical treatment, resources and supports needed to thrive in their community of choice
- Strong commitment to the right and ability of people served by ACCS to live, work, have meaningful relationships and receive the clinical treatment, resources and supports needed to thrive in their community of choice
- Skill in helping people integrate into the community through use of natural supports and basic community resources
- Knowledge of PS engagement strategies
- Knowledge of community inclusion principles and practices, benefits and entitlement resource
- Ability to form supportive, trusting relationships with PS
- Sensitivity to the cultural, religious, ethnic, disability, and gender issues of PS
- Knowledge of human, legal, and civil rights of PS
- Knowledge of the effects of prejudice (including internalized negative attitudes about oneself), discrimination, and oppression of people with psychiatric disorders, and the effects of poverty
- Knowledge and use of different communication and learning styles
- Ability to make independent judgments and decisions
- Ability to work in a professional and confidential capacity
- Knowledge of assessment skills and practice
- Knowledge of recovery-oriented, person-centered and strengths-based values and principles
- Knowledge of trauma-informed and culturally competent services. Sensitivity to the cultural, religious, ethnic, disability and gender issues of PS
- Ability to adhere to the standards of Motivational Interviewing; Harm Reduction; Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT); Housing First; Stages of Change; and Cognitive Behavioral interventions
- Skills and competence to provide interventions for effective Treatment Plan interventions
- Ability to collaborate effectively with other Team members to address the needs of PS in the Treatment Plan
- Knowledge of personal computer applications and equipment
- Knowledge of documentation standards and requirements
Physical Effort:
Ability to stand, walk, bend, kneel, stoop, crouch, crawl, climb as this is a very physically active position.
Must be able to lift at least 25 pounds using proper lifting techniques or the use of a two-person lift.
Ability to operate a computer and other office equipment such as a calculator, copier, and printer.
Ability to sit, reach, climb stairs, and maneuver through narrow spaces or hallways.
Ability to assist PS with tasks of daily living.
Ability to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time as needed.
Ability to bend, reach, file, sit, stand, and move around the facility.
Ability to speak, hear, and communicate with PS, staff, and external representatives.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Pay: $49,700.00 - $49,733.00 per year
Work Location: In person
