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| Summary: | |
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| Pine Belt Mental Healthcare | |
| Resources is seeking an energetic | |
| and motivated Community Support | |
| Specialist to provide services | |
| to youth and families in Harrison | |
| County. Position is located | |
| in Gulfport, MS. The | |
| Community Support Specialist | |
| position plays an important role | |
| in providing individualized | |
| support and guidance to assist | |
| with daily challenges for | |
| individuals in Harrison County. | |
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| For 50 years, Pine Belt Mental | |
| Healthcare Resources has served | |
| individuals throughout the Pine | |
| Belt. Through an extensive | |
| continuum of care, we strive to | |
| enable adults with serious mental | |
| illnesses, children with serious | |
| emotional disturbances, and | |
| individuals with an addiction or | |
| developmental disability to live, | |
| work, learn, and participate | |
| fully in their communities. Our | |
| eighteen county service area | |
| includes Amite, Franklin, | |
| Forrest, Hancock, Harrison, | |
| Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, | |
| Covington, Greene, Jeff Davis, | |
| Marion, Pearl River, Perry, Pike, | |
| Stone, Walthall, Wayne | |
| Counties. | |
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| We offer a competitive benefits | |
| package including company paid | |
| Life Insurance and LTD. | |
| Health/Dental/Vision, FSA and | |
| HSA, 403(b) retirement and other | |
| voluntary benefits are available | |
| along with a generous leave | |
| policy. | |
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| Requirements: | |
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| - Bachelor's degree in | |
| behavioral healthcare | |
| required | |
| - Reliable transportatio to | |
| provide community services | |
| required | |
| - Valid driver's license with | |
| satisfactory driving record | |
| required | |
| - Must have auto insurance with | |
| liability limits of | |
| 100,000/300,000/50,000 within | |
| 30 days of hire | |
| - Must be eligible to obtain | |
| DMH case management | |
| certification within 90 days | |
| of hire | |
| - Excellent communications | |
| skills required | |
| - Case management experience | |
| preferred | |
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| Responsibilities: | |
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| - Identifies strengths which | |
| will aid in the individual in | |
| their recovery and the | |
| barriers that will challenge | |
| the development of skills | |
| necessary for independent | |
| functioning in the community. | |
| - Provides psychoeducation on | |
| the identification and | |
| self-management of prescribed | |
| medication regimen and | |
| communicates with the | |
| prescribing provider. | |
| - Assists the individual in | |
| accessing needed services | |
| such as medical, social, | |
| educational, transportation, | |
| housing, substance abuse, | |
| personal care, employment, | |
| and other services that may | |
| be identified in the Recovery | |
| Support Plan. | |
| - Provides psychoeducation and | |
| trains family, unpaid | |
| caregivers, and/or others who | |
| have a legitimate role in | |
| addressing the needs of the | |
| individual. | |
| - Monitors and evaluates the | |
| effectiveness of | |
| interventions, as evidenced | |
| by symptom reduction and |