Job Title: Skills Building

Reports to: Community Coordinator

Summary: Skills Building is a home or community-based service that utilizes psychiatric rehabilitation interventions designed to build and reinforce functional skills. Skills Building modalities and interventions vary in intensity, frequency, and duration in order to support member’s ability to manage functional need independently. This service is available to youth diagnosed with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and adults recovering from a Severe Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) and Serious Mental Illness (SMI).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Meet with clients on a regular basis to provide skills training and community reintegration.
• Assist clinician with the client service plan for Skills Building services.
• Implement tasks on the service plan to assist clients to reach their goals and objectives in the shortest period of time possible.
• Complete quarterly progress reports as required and provide feedback to the clinician to change the client’s service plan when needed.
• Complete all documentation, billing and reports in a timely manner and in accordance with due dates.   
• Complete continuing education requirements annually.
• Attend weekly supervision meetings.
• Consult with the clinician regarding any changes necessary for optimal, efficacious and safe care of psychiatric clients.
• Meet clients in the community and accompany clients to engagements where they need support.
• Maintain vehicle within company safety inspection criteria.

Special Attributes:

• Ability to manage own use of time
• Ability to prioritize work assignments
• Ability to communicate effectively with professionals and clients/ families
• Ability to make sound decisions in emergency situations
• Ability to work independently
• Current computer skills
• Professional written and oral communication skills
• Organizational skills
• People skills
• Optimism
• Adaptability
• Cooperative
• Critical thinking
• Ethical

Qualifications Required:

• Certification as a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner (CPRP) from the American Psychosocial Rehabilitation Association (APRA) or Licensed Social Worker/Licensed Professional Counselor.
• Successfully pass the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare background check
• CPR/First Aid
• Reliable vehicle and insurance
• Valid Driver’s License
• Pass company vehicle inspection

Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret assessments and plans.

Physical Demands:

• talk or hear
• stand and sit for extended periods of time
• walk for distances such as around a large building
• use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects
• use tools or controls
• reach with hands and arms

Work Environments: In the car, in Member’s home, in businesses and agencies in the community, and in public settings.

Pay: Pay depends on experience.

Comments:

This description is intended to describe the essential job functions, the general supplemental functions, and the essential requirements for the performance of this job. It is not an exhaustive list off all duties, responsibilities, and requirements of a person so classified. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Other functions may be assigned and management retains the right to add to or change the duties at any time.