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About the Role
The Short Term Crisis Respite Support Specialist provides support to individuals experiencing challenges in daily life that create risk for an escalation of symptoms that cannot be managed in the individual’s home and community environment. Through the use of the Need Adapted Treatment Model the Crisis Respite Counselor will provide guests health and wellness coaching, relapse prevention planning, wellness activities, family support, conflict resolution, and other services as needed.
Responsibilities
- Teach individuals to look at crisis differently and utilize wellness tools to prevent future crises or to decrease the intensity of personal crisis.
- Work closely with Health Homes, hospitals and treatment providers to develop an integrated plan of care including mental health, physical health, substance abuse services, and community supports necessary for individuals to succeed in the community.
- Provide advocacy, supportive counseling and referral and linkage services for program guests as needed and as assigned by the Program Director.
- Provide recovery oriented services incorporating Need Adapted Treatment and Motivational Interviewing.
- Provide coverage for the program as reflected in staffing plan, including overnights as required.
- Completes all required documentation, in timelines in accordance with program standards.
Requirements
- Work experience in a behavioral health or related setting, preferably using the recovery model.
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Have professional experience with the mental health system.
- A respect for and high level of comfort around people experiencing psychiatric crisis.
- Ability to utilize critical thinking, problem-solving and de-escalation skills to assist with creating and maintaining an environment that promotes recovery.
Skills
- health and wellness coaching
- reoccurrence prevention planning
- wellness activities
- family support
- conflict resolution
- referrals and linkage services
- Need Adapted Treatment Model
- advocacy
- supportive counseling
- Need Adapted Treatment
- Motivational Interviewing
- critical thinking
- problem-solving
- de-escalation skills
Location
- Oswego
Work Type
- Per Diem
- evenings
- weekends
- overnights
Experience Level
- 1-3 years of relevant experience working with individuals with Mental Health or Chemical Dependency disorders
- Entry level experience with ability for growth in the agency
Education Level
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Bachelor's Degree
- GED
Salary/Compensations
- $20.00 per hour
Benefits
- Home like setting
- Relaxed atmosphere
- Variety of work hours
- Mentorship
- Offers Peer Certification hours
About the Company
- Liberty Resources has 4 Crisis Respite locations with 3-8 beds in Syracuse, Oneida, Oswego, and Auburn.
- The respite homes are community based residential programs that provide a therapeutic environment for adults experiencing a mental health crisis.
- The program provides Peer Support Services utilizing individuals with a history of lived experience with mental health challenges and a willingness to share their story as well as Crisis Support Staff who have extensive experience in the field.
- Our employees have passion around the services they provide and our corporate values of excellence and staff support.
- We pride ourselves on high quality, integrated, community-based services that meet the evolving needs of our communities.
- We’re committed to building a diverse workforce that values contributions of all team members and work to recognize cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and how they apply to provision of positive health outcomes.
Equal Opportunity
- Liberty Resources is committed to creating a diverse inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- Liberty Resources offers equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, parental status, housing status, source of income or military status, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local EEO laws