COMMUNITY SUPPORT WORKER

Receive 17% Weekday Nights, 26% Weekend Nights and 15% Weekend Day shift differentials

Minimum Offer

$ 22.49 / hr.

Maximum Offer

$ 33.74 / hr.

Compensation Disclaimer

Compensation for this role is based on a number of factors, including but not limited to experience, education, and other business and organizational considerations.

Department : Case Management - UPC

FTE : 1.00

Full Time

Shift : Days

Position Summary :

Coordinate and provide services and resources to individuals / families necessary to promote rehabilitation, recovery, and resiliency. Identify and address the strengths, which will aid the individual or family in the recovery and resiliency process, as well as the barriers that could impede the development of skills needed for independent functioning in the community.

Support the individual and the family in crisis situations; provide personalized interventions to develop, facilitate, or enhance an individual’s ability to make informed and independent decisions. The patient care assignment may include children who are at risk of / or experiencing serious emotional, neurobiological, and / or behavioral disorders; adults with severe mental illness (SMI), individuals with chronic substance abuse, and / or individuals with co-occurring disorders.

Ensure adherence to Hospitals and departmental policies and procedures.

Patient care assignment may include neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric age groups.

Detailed responsibilities :

• PATIENT CENTERED MED - Adhere to and promote the core expectations of the Patient Centered Medical Home or Patient Centered Specialty Practice as applicable
• NAVIGATION / PATIENT ADVOCACY -

Work to eliminate barriers to access to culturally competent medical services for all patients.

Assist patients to access community resources, and financial assistance programs and services that are needed

illnesses; assist individual with knowledge of their medication, side effects, discuss medication concerns with the provider; facilitate self-motivational skills for medication regimen, including consequences to independent living

Assist in the development and coordination of the individual’s service plan based on his / her identified strengths and goals.

The plan will include a recovery / resiliency management plan, crisis management plan and if requested, advanced directives concerning the individual’s behavioral healthcare

Qualifications

Related Education and Experience may be substituted for one another on a year for year basis.

Education : Essential :

Education specialization :

Essential :

Experience : Essential :

1 year directly related experience

Nonessential :

Bilingual English, Spanish, Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, or Navajo

Credentials : Essential :

Nonessential :

Physical Conditions :

Light Work : Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and / or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and / or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly : activity or condition exists 2 / 3 or more of the time) to move objects.

Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work.

May require walking or standing to a significant degree or requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and / or pulling of arm or leg controls; and / or may require working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and / or pulling of materials even though the weight of materials is negligible.

Working conditions : Essential :

Department : Behavioral and Mental Health