The Relief Mental Health Counselor will provide support and assistance to clients through individual and group counseling in a crisis or transitional residential treatment program. The position is responsible for developing and maintaining a respectful and caring relationship with clients, ensuring their needs are met, and preparing them for the next level of care or other discharge options.
Requirements
- Develop and maintain a respectful, caring, tolerant, ethical, and empowering relationship with all individuals served
- Establish and maintain clear and effective communications with clients, ensure that their needs are met, assist them in the development and implementation of their treatment plans, and prepare them for the next level of care or other discharge options
- Document clients' progress in program charts
- Assist program management in ensuring compliance with all agency policies and procedures, contractual agreements, licensing and certification requirements, and local, state, and federal laws and regulations
- Provide crisis intervention as necessary
- Remain alert and perform job functions as assigned and as necessary during awake overnight shifts
- Orient new clients to the program, or, when possible, enable other clients to orient new clients
- Facilitate and lead structured program activities, as assigned
- Participate in staff meetings and attend other meetings, as assigned
- Attend and participate in regularly scheduled supervision sessions
- Attend training events as assigned, completing a minimum of twenty (20) hours of in-service training annually
- Assist clients with room maintenance, laundry, meal planning and preparation, shopping, and cooking
- Participate in promoting a safe, healthy, and clean working environment at all times consistent with applicable laws, industry standards and the agency’s own Health & Safety Program
- Complete and submit accurate time sheets and absence reports to program management in a timely manner
- Promote within the agency and with the public the philosophy and practice of social rehabilitation
- Drive agency vehicle to transport clients and on various errands, as required
- Actively nurture and advance the cooperative, harmonious, and teamwork-oriented environment Caminar strives to promote within the workplace
- Perform other related duties, responsibilities and special projects as assigned
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Retirement Plan
- Paid Time Off
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
