COMMUNITY RECOVERY SPECIALIST
About The Position
The Community Recovery Specialist (CRS) provides daily support to residents in a 10-bed, long-term structured psychiatric unit. The role focuses on psychiatric rehabilitation, independent-living skills, and community integration while demonstrating the organization’s values and maintaining professionalism, fairness, and compassion. The CRS supports residents with skill building, service planning, goal planning, appointments, transportation, and required documentation, and follows applicable programmatic and corporate procedures and protocols. The schedule is full-time, with one of the listed options: Sunday–Thursday, 7 a.m.–3 p.m.; Wednesday–Sunday, 3 p.m.–11 p.m.; or Friday–Tuesday, 3 p.m.–11 p.m. Other duties may be assigned.
Requirements
- High school diploma required.
- Minimum of three years’ experience working directly with individuals diagnosed with mental health conditions or intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
- Current and valid driver’s license.
- Criminal record clearances as dictated by the assigned programs.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Experience in the health care or mental health care industry preferred.
Responsibilities
- Assist residents in building independent-living skills, including employment, education, money management, medication management, transportation, meal preparation, shopping for household goods, site cleanliness, housing searches, roommate matching, and social skills development.
- Assist residents with appointments and transport them to medical appointments.
- Apply psychiatric rehabilitation principles while implementing the phase system, service planning, skill building, goal planning, and community integration.
- Complete documentation required for groups and individual outings.
- Attend weekly team meetings and monthly all-staff meetings, and engage in supervision with the site lead at least once a month.
- Ensure compliance with applicable programmatic and corporate procedures and protocols for staff, residents, and the program.
- Conduct oneself professionally and with fairness and compassion.
- Perform other duties as directed.
Benefits
- Full benefits package.
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plan.
- Free virtual fitness classes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
