$3,000 HIRING BONUS paid in installments: $1,500 after 6 months and $1,500 after 1 year!!
Base pay with the potential to receive additional compensation!!
*Meeting with consumers in community settings*
*Agency cars provided for any consumer transport*
On-call: $264.95/week with additional call out pay!!
Wesley Family Services offers the following benefits:
ALL EMPLOYEES:
- Tuition discounts - up to a 20% discount on tuition for certain degree programs at local partnering colleges
- Annual performance evaluations with pay increase eligibility
- Employee Assistance Program
- Free licensure supervision (minimum work hours may apply)
- WFS Wellness Center
- myStrength
- Discounted home, auto, and pet insurance
FULL TIME EMPLOYEES:
- 10 paid holidays + paid Celebration Day
- 15 paid time off days 1st year, 20 paid time off days 2nd year, continues to increase
- Tuition reimbursement for qualifying courses of up to $2,000 per semester or course ($6,000 per fiscal year maximum reimbursement)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (effective the 1st of the month following 30 days of work)
- Two weeks paid parental leave
- Employer paid life insurance
- Employer paid short term and long term disability insurance
Job Purpose/Summary
The ACT Service Coordinator supports the agency’s mission statement in assisting consumers to resolve problems and improve functioning, as well as contributes to the agency’s capacity to serve individual, family, and community needs. As per the PA ACT Guidelines, the remaining clinical staff may be bachelor’s level and paraprofessional mental health workers who carry out rehabilitation and support functions.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
· Bachelor’s degree in social work, counseling, or psychology.
o A paraprofessional mental health worker may have a bachelor’s degree in a field other than behavioral sciences and work experience with adults with serious mental illness or with individuals with similar human service needs
§ These paraprofessionals may have related training (e.g., certified occupational therapy assistant, home health care aide) or work experience (e.g., teaching) and life experience
Experience: Minimum of 2 years of post-graduate clinical experience and/or licensure is preferred (may be required in some programs).
Licenses, Certifications & Clearances:
· Act 33/34 Clearances
· FBI Clearance
· Valid State of PA Class 1 Drivers License
· Access to properly insured motor vehicle for client transportation and fieldwork and a safe driving record
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
· Exhibits ethical business behavior and maintains confidentiality of information and compliance as required by WS policy
· Ability to exhibit cultural sensitivity and to contribute to a work environment where diversity is welcomed and supported
· Commitment to supporting the Quality Whole Person Care® service philosophy and work-place culture.
· Commitment to empowering others to solve their own problems.
· Commitment to valuing a nurturing family as the ideal environment.
· Conviction about the capacity of people to grow and change.
· Ability to establish a respectful relationship with persons served to help them gain skills and confidence.
· Ability to work collaboratively with other personnel and/or service providers or professionals.
· Capacity to maintain a helping role and to intervene appropriately to meet service goals.
· Ability to set appropriate limits.
· Basic knowledge of normal and abnormal personality development, as well as of family systems and interactions.
· Ability to forge a mutually respectful partnership with persons served, and their families, in which they are helped to gain the skills and confidence to address any issues and problems they face.
· Ability to plan time sensitive, goal-directed treatment and to carry out treatment using individual, joint, marital and group modalities.
· Basic knowledge of treatment process appropriate to a wide variety of diagnostic categories and ages.
· Basic ability to evaluate treatment progress and request help, when needed, relate non-defensively in supervision, and use suggestions appropriately.
· Ability to manage time and assigned responsibilities so as to meet the production requirement of the agency.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
· Assists consumers to achieve goals by engaging the client in conducting assessments, determining goals, developing a treatment service plan, and providing various therapeutic and educational methods to achieve desired outcomes.
· Works with consumers in a time-effective manner by using time sensitive modalities and methods of therapy, routinely evaluating with the consumer progress towards achievement of goals, and terminating within allotted time frames.
· Handles a range of consumer situations by developing the capacity to employ diverse, brief treatment modalities relevant to individuals, families, children, and couples. Provides crisis intervention and facilitates emergency procedures. Assesses effects of social, cultural, and community factors on consumers’ lives, identifies and networks with internal and external resources, advocates for consumers, refers consumer, and collaborates around consumer concerns to facilitate smooth transitions.
· Manages workload requirements by maintaining the productivity expectation of the program for service. Provides scheduling flexibility to serve both new and existing consumers.
· Assures service accountability and quality assurance by completing agency and other statistical reports, case recordings, and other appropriate regulatory forms. Monitors chart for timely completeness and Program Utilization Review. Participates in program evaluations, outcome studies, and research projects.
· Develops relationships with third-party payers by knowing and adhering to current third-party payer criteria, communicating with authorizing personnel, completing required documentation, advocating for the consumer needs, and promoting program services.
· Contributes to program development by identifying areas for program improvement, communicating ideas to Supervisor in meetings, developing areas of expertise related to program needs, and participating on staff committees.
· Promotes the agency by developing, maintaining, and understanding the agency mission and programs in interpreting services to consumers, the public, and other agencies. Participates in educational presentations to various consumer, community, public, and professional groups. Contacts and familiarizes referral sources with agency services.
· Maintains and contributes to professional competency by utilizing supervision, consultation, and professional development and training opportunities. Develops and conducts staff training in area(s) of expertise.
· Contributes to agency development by participating with staff from other programs in the development and implementation of innovative projects. Serves on Mission, Vision, Philosophy (MVP) panels and teams.
· Performs other tasks that are specific to the service provided as follows:
o It’s recommended that at least one of the clinical staff (either master’s level or other clinical staff) have experience working with the homeless population and be designated as the Housing Specialist, as per state ACT guidelines
o It’s also recommended that at least one clinical staff (either master’s level or other clinical staff) be a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner (CPRP) that is certified by the U.S. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA), as per state ACT guidelines
o In cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh, staff members with less than a master’s degree have been gaining certification as Service Coordinators
§ Staff member, depending on specialty area, will agree to achieving a certification within 1 year of hire
How to Apply:
You can submit through Indeed, but also go to our website directly at: wfspa.org/careers
Quality Whole Person Care® is Wesley Family Services’ service philosophy that aims to enhance the clinical care provided to individuals served while also helping to strengthen the way we support one another as colleagues. WFS has embedded QWPC practices which emphasize every person has value in all aspects of services and work-place culture.
WFS is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policies for both current and prospective employees prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin (including limited English proficiency), age, sex assigned at birth, sexual orientation, transgender identity, gender transition, gender identity, gender expression, disability, military/veteran status, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Education:
Experience:
- post-graduate clinical experience and/or licensure: 2 years (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Greensburg, PA 15601 (Required)
Work Location: In person
