Drop-In Center Recovery Support Specialist (Part-Time) Job at Kenneth Young Center
Drop-In Center Recovery Support Specialist (Part-Time)
You are key to our vision: Together We Thrive. At Kenneth Young Center, our staff come together with volunteers, community partners, and the people we serve to create holistic systems of care through interwoven behavioral health programs, older adult services, and community health initiatives. Our team welcomes and celebrates unique perspectives, and represents the diversity and vitality of our local communities. This role helps realize our mission: We partner with communities to support people of all ages to navigate life's challenges through personalized prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery. Join our team to grow in your career while building stronger, healthier communities.
Job Scope: Actively contribute as a Recovery Support Specialist to offer a community based, member driven drop-in center that offers recovery focused support, advocacy, leisure and enrichment activities to persons living with mental illness and disabilities who desire to engage fully in community life. Drop-in staff members provide and coordinate a range of activities aimed at engaging and motivating members living independently in the Northwest Suburbs. The drop-in center will be open at flexible times that meet member identified social, interpersonal, and educational/informational needs that improve their level of community integration, stability, and personal satisfaction. The drop-in staff will also serve as early identifiers of risk or instability in members and be able to intervene and encourage members self-refer or take actions to refer members to more formal clinical services
Proof of COVID-19 vaccination required. Accommodation for medical and religious exemption will be considered. Weekly testing required for approved vaccination exemptions.
Responsibilities
- Program Operations
- Engage Drop-in members to actively use the center to increase level of community integration and build leisure time, activities, and interests.
- Assist in planning and implementation of Drop-in center activities
- Responsible for travel assistance and transportation
- Participate in Drop-in Member Advisory Council
- Provide supportive peer counseling utilizing personal experience to establish a warm and empathic connection with members and their families/significant others as needed
- Facilitate leisure group activities
- Promote opportunities for members to build natural systems of support within their communities through exposure to recreational, spiritual, educational, vocational, volunteer and civic activities
- Work with members to follow Wellness Action Recovery Plans
- Work cooperatively with other Center teams/staff to maintain smooth transitions and effective continuity of care
- Administrative and Performance Requirements
- Assist in development and maintenance of local community resources and groups (NAMI, AA etc.), recovery literature, on-line materials/websites to support members
- Participate in supervision as directed
- Participate in team and other agency meetings and trainings as directed by supervisor
- Interpret and communicate, at the service delivery level, center policies and procedures
Education, Experience and Other requirements
- High School Diploma
- Certified Recovery Support Specialist (CRSS) certification or course work completed and able to obtain certification within time frames as negotiated by funder
- Must be in recovery and current or former recipient of services
- 1 year of related work and/or volunteer experience
- Basic computer proficiency, knowledge of Microsoft Word and Internet skills
- Applicant must have a valid IL Driver’s License, be insurable, and willing to transport members.
- Must be prepared to work a flexible schedule in response to the needs of the target population served, including evening, weekend hours and some holidays.
- Applicant needs to be able to work evenings, weekends, and some holidays.
- Applicant must be willing to drive a 10-person van.
- Applicant must be in recovery (from mental illness).
Kenneth Young Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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