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About the Role
Provide services to adults with a diagnosis of mental illness living in individual apartments, aiming to stabilize clients and foster independence through rehabilitative services.
Responsibilities
- Provide supportive counseling to assist in stabilizing clients in their apartments.
- Utilize verbal intervention skills for all client interactions.
- Engage in crisis prevention and coping skills training.
- Perform verbal crisis intervention.
- Supervise medication by delivering refills, counting medication, discussing usage, and educating clients on medications and potential side effects.
- Teach daily living skills.
- Assist clients in maintaining a healthy and clean living environment.
- Facilitate socialization skills and recreational activities.
- Promote a culture of inclusion and belonging.
- Provide transportation to clients using agency vehicles.
Requirements
- Possess a valid and insurable driver's license.
- Have a personal vehicle for business use when not transporting clients.
- Ability to work independently and as a team member.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Must successfully complete background checks.
Skills
- Human services
- Crisis intervention
- Crisis prevention
- Verbal intervention
- Medication supervision
- Daily living skills
- Socialization skills
- Recreational activities
- Communication skills
- Organization
- Time management
Location
- Schenectady community
Work Type
- Full-time
- On-call
Experience Level
- 6 months-1 year experience in human services preferred
- Experience or education in crisis intervention and prevention preferred
Education Level
- College classes in human services
- BA preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $47,132.80/annual equivalent
- $22.66/hour
- $150 on-call bonus
Benefits
- Excellent benefits
- Staff training
- Generous paid time off
- 30-minute paid lunch
- Agency provided cell phone and I-pad for on-call
About the Company
- Mohawk Opportunities is committed to helping individuals living with mental illness achieve stable community living and independence.
- Our goal is to provide services and supports that assist individuals living with mental illness to thrive and achieve their full potential for a happy, independent life in the community of their choice.
- Visit our website at www.mohawkopportunities.org.
- Visit us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn!
Equal Opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Sr. Director of Human Resources at 518-836-3980.