Job Description
** Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8.30am-5pm **. Bi-Lingual Pay - One hundred twenty-five dollars per paycheck for threshold languages to serve our monolingual clients**
Pay rates for Union positions are set in the Collective Bargaining Agreement with SEIU Local 521. Each position has a total of six steps, Step 1 (entry level) through Step 6 (15 years of employment with the organization). Union staff are promoted from Step 1 to Step 2 upon their one-year anniversary. The current Step 1 rate for this position is $32.24/hr, and the current Step 6 rate for this position is $35.60/hr.
We offer a competitive package of employee benefits for 30 to 40-hour week positions. You will receive a defined contribution amount of $13,050.18 per year. (prorated for part-time employees working less than 40 hours per week) to purchase the benefits of your choice on a cafeteria plan basis. Any amount of this defined contribution not used towards your benefits will be paid to you as taxable earnings. We offer a retirement plan with a generous employer match starting at 4% after one year of employment. Our paid time off is also more generous than many employers with vacation time accruing up to 25 days per year, 6 days of sick time per year and 12 paid holidays.
The benefits offered in our cafeteria plan are as follows:
- Medical benefits –Kaiser, ranging from $0 Deductible Plan with $15 Copay to $2,850 Deductible Plan with Health Savings Account (H.S.A.)
- Dental benefits –Guardian: 1 dental HMO and 2 PPOs
Vision benefits – 2 options from Guardian VSP: a standard vision plan and an
enhanced vision plan
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist clients in acclimating into the supportive housing community, assist with managing day to day operations at Supportive Housing site, as well as oversee vigilance of cleanliness and safety on premises and contacting facility maintenance as needed.
- Oversee and, at times, provide treatment services, one-to-one mentoring, coaching support to clients, both individually and within groups, to develop and improve skills related to physical and mental health care needs; provide on-site back up to program staff.
- Communicate, represent and promote the client perspective within the mental health system and ensure services are integrated.
- Assist the multidisciplinary team in identifying the strengths and needs of the community networks
- Advocate for clients in a strength-based wellness and recovery plan.
- Develop effective working relationships with agencies and organizations to advocate for consumer empowerment including self-help and relapse prevention and recovery movements.
- Assist clients with transportation, chore assignments, grocery shopping, and other house responsibilities.
- Provide outreach to clients in the La Selva community.*
- Confer with program staff and professional staff to assist in evaluating client needs or problems.
- Work a flexible schedule as required by responsibilities of the position.
- Attend and participate in staff, program, agency and community meetings as required, requested or assigned.
- Provide backup support for crises.*
- Complete documentation and maintain clients’ files in accordance with program policies and funding source requirements.*
- Provide transportation in personal or agency vehicles including, but not limited to, the transportation of clients and/or program supplies for agency business, grocery shopping, client appointments, etc*
- Perform related work as assigned (i.e. running group therapy, safety checks on-site, client advocacy and monthly safety drills).
OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide appropriate consultation and back-up to support other staff in responding to client crises.*
- Attend and participate in staff, program, agency and community meetings and training; conduct trainings, as needed.
- Ensure compliance with applicable health and safety or other regulatory requirements.*
- Ensure program facilities and workstations are clean and well kept.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED: (E = Essential; D = Desired)
- High School diploma, GED, or equivalent education. (E) Personal experience in an addictions treatment setting preferred. (D) Human services experience such as facilitating groups; developing consumer-run, self-help activities; providing peer support. (D)
- Personal knowledge of mental health and recovery services and willingness to share that perspective with others within the context of providing peer support. (E)
- Proven problem-solving skills and abilities. (E)
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and demands. (E)
- Ability to engage and communicate effectively (E)
- Demonstrated ability to:
- Work independently and in a small team environment. (E)
- Engage and communicate effectively with others in both verbal and written English. (E)
- Monitor and support developmental growth and the recovery process. (E)
- Employ tact and diplomacy, exercise good judgment, and act calmly in emergency situations. (E)
- Work from a strengths-based, harm-reduction, social rehabilitation model. (E)
- Work effectively with persons differing in value systems, ethnicity, cultural backgrounds, language capabilities and disabilities. (E)
- Work collaboratively with individuals identified as those with substance use concerns who meet the following criteria: histories of hospitalization, substance abuse, mental illness, low engagement in medication treatment, and difficulty in participating in structured activities and living independently. (E)
- Work with populations identified as high risk and/or considered under-represented in the Mental Health/Alcohol and Substance use system, with multiple barriers. (E)
- Knowledge of:
- Specific needs of the target population, as well as serious mental illness, substance abuse, other dual diagnoses, homelessness and the justice system. (D)
- Motivational interviewing (E), Cognitive behavioral therapy. (D)
- Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) or willing to learn. (D)
- Community resources, including those required to meet the recovery needs of the target population. (D)
- Exhibit exemplary customer service, compassion, and care in the execution of all duties and interactions. (E)
- Special Requirements: Must be able to meet and receive a criminal records clearance, as required by Title XXII, other licensing regulations and Momentum practices. (E)
- A valid California Driver License, with access to a reliable vehicle or for driving a company vehicle, current proof of auto liability insurance, and a clean DMV record. (E)
- Physical requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job, with or without accommodation:
- Standing, walking, grasping, finger flexion, moving/lifting/carrying objects up to 40 lbs., bending, stooping, crouching, kneeling, withstanding repetitive motion, and reaching repeatedly are required constantly (over 2/3 of the workday); (E)
- Hearing and talking on telephone and in person is required occasionally (under 1/3 of workday); (E)
- Balancing, climbing and crawling may be required occasionally; (E)
- Physically able to assist clients and/or staff in the evacuation of program facilities in emergency situations. (E)