Job Description
Job Description
PURPOSE:
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The Jewish Board’s Adult Residential Division supports adults with serious and persistent mental illness to live in the community with as much independence as possible. Using a non-judgmental, harm-reduction approach, staff model and guide residents to create and meet personalized recovery goals, develop independent living skills, and live in a healthy and secure manner. Our work is guided by principles that underscore the critical importance of stable housing, use a culturally competent and anti-racist lens, and respect the dignity and legitimacy of each individual’s journey.
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POSITION OVERVIEW:
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The Social Worker is responsible for supplying necessary clinical intervention within the realm of the program. Provide cultural competent and sensitive services. As part of a therapeutic team within the Agency, work closely with the divisions’ medical, psychiatric and psychology staff, to ensure the appropriate treatment interventions for the client.
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KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
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Client Engagement
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\n - Carries a caseload of residents, and provides services to those residents within the scope of program regulations and agency mission.
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\n - Interprets and explains agency policies and procedures to residents.
\n - Develop safety plans
\n - Provide individual and family counseling.
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Team Process
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\n - Participates in weekly case conference
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\n - Participates in regular staff meetings and trainings.May be asked to travel to offsite meetings and trainings.
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Documentation
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\n - Files incident reports as appropriate.
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CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:
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Knowledge and Attributes
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\n - In-depth understanding of how mental illness, substance use disorders, or trauma can affect the lives of individuals in the community.
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\n - Commitment to working with individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, a history of trauma, and/or homelessness.
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\n - Openness to approaching the work through an anti-racist lens, engaging in continuous learning, and putting that learning into practice to support our diverse resident population.
\n - The ability to stay calm in a variety of situations, some of which may be stressful.
\n - Patience and empathy for individuals on their journey to recovery.
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Skills
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\n - Communication: Conveys information clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing; practices
\n - active listening; engages residents respectfully.
\n - Self-sufficiency and initiative: Assesses, initiates, and completes tasks independently; contributes to the organization’s mission and team’s goals; researches and pursues professional development opportunities.
\n - Interpersonal relations: Demonstrates cultural sensitivity, interacts with colleagues and residents professionally and respectfully.
\n - Problem-solving: Analyzes situations objectively, generates or researches solutions independently
\n - Quality assurance: Attends to detail, follows standard operating procedures, and consistently produces work of high quality.
\n - Teamwork: Works collaboratively with teams and models collaborative teamwork, takes appropriate action on constructive feedback.
\n - Organizational skills: Manages time effectively; respects deadlines; prioritizes multiple, emerging, and complex demands; demonstrates flexibility.
\n - Crisis management : Identifies situations in the environment that can evolve into a crisis, maintains calm during a crisis, has solid crisis de-escalation skills or is willing to learn specific skills to de-escalate a crisis.
\n - Good judgement: Manages risk and ensures safety of residents independently recognizes and acts on situations requiring intervention by a supervisor or higher authority.
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EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED:
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\n - Master’s degree in Social Work, LMSW or LCSW certification preferred
\n - A minimum of 1-year experience in Human Services preferred
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Additional Qualification needed:
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\n - Willingness to work with individuals with experiences of mental illness, and substance use.
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COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED
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• Familiarity with working in Windows environment
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• Ability and willingness to learn new systems and application software
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VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXTERITY:
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\n - Able to read data and documents, including spreadsheets, reports and Electronic Health Records in printed form and on computer screens.
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\n - Limited applications of manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.
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WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT
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• Travel in the community.
Job Tags
Agency work, Live in, Local area