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Job Description
The Behavioral Health Counselor will serve on Ben Gordon Center’s Community Support Team (CST). CST is recovery and resiliency oriented, intensive, community based rehabilitation and outreach service for adults. It is team-based and consists of mental health rehabilitation interventions and supports necessary to assist the recipient in achieving and maintaining rehabilitative, resiliency and recovery goals.
CST is designed to meet the educational, vocational, residential, mental health, co-occurring disorders (MH/SA, MH/DD, MH/Medical), financial, social, and other treatment support needs of the recipient. Interventions are provided primarily in natural settings, and are delivered face to face, by telephone, or by video conference with individual recipients and their family/significant others as appropriate, to the primary well-being and benefit of the recipient. Community Support Team assists in the development of optimal developmentally appropriate community living skills, and in setting and attaining recipient (and family in the case of children) defined recovery/resiliency goals.
CST may serve as a step down for individuals transitioning from more intensive or restrictive levels of care, or for those with psychiatric hospitalizations/repeated detoxification incidence in the past 18 months who are at risk of out of home placement. It is provided to recipients to decrease hospitalizations and crisis episodes and increase community tenure/independent functioning; increase time working, in school or with social contacts; and personal satisfaction and autonomy. Community support team may also serve as a step up from less intensive levels of care when those interventions have not succeeded in meeting the individual’s clinical and rehabilitative needs.
Responsibilities:- Under supervision, provides supportive counseling, case management, and community support services.
- Assesses patient and patients family needs, develops treatment plans, provides and evaluates patient care, and assists with discharge planning.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelors degree in related field.
- One year of experience interacting with clients for treatment of mental health
- Valid Driver's License
- Ability to travel to and from multiple work sites and in the community on a daily basis.
Additional Information
Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.
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