Summer Community Support Associate
Cumberland River Behavioral Health
- Barbourville, KY
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Improve daily living skills ( hygiene, meal preparation, medication adherence)
- Self-monitoring of symptoms, side effects, and medication adherence
- Emotional regulation skills
- Crisis coping skills
- Developing and enhancing interpersonal skills
- Assistance in accessing and utilizing community resources
- Non-clinical but therapeutic behavioral intervention, support and skills training
- Routine household care and maintenance
- Activities of daily living, including personal hygiene, shopping, money management, medication management, socialization, relationship building, participation in community activities and goal attainment.
- Oral and Written Communication Skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Ability to exercise good judgment, tact, diplomacy and compassion when problem solving, handling conflict or in a crisis situation
- Ability to complete record keeping in a timely fashion
- Ability to get along with diverse personalities and maintain effective working relationships
- Ability to work well with people of all races, backgrounds and needs
- Knowledgeable of Behavioral Health concepts and how to incorporate concepts into practical application including Recovery Concepts for persons with severe mental illnesses or co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders
- Physically able to reach, push, pull, stoop, bend, stand, walk and lift up to 20 pounds
- Possess a valid Driver’s License, maintain a safe driving record, and maintain the required minimum vehicle insurance amount for the State of Kentucky, if required for job performance
- Hours of work are structured 7.5 or 8.0 hour blocks of time but may be subject to irregular and/or flexible hours based on needs or demands
- Position may require duties to include routine or reasonable anticipated tasks or procedures where there is a degree of actual or potential exposure to blood or other infectious materials
- All staff are required to participate in yearly trainings regarding infection control and safety in the environment including hazardous waste and blood borne pathogens
- All new staff must attend training regarding handling physical, verbal threats, acts of violence or other escalating and potentially dangerous situations including when police need to be summoned.
- All staff must be certified in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation within one month of employment and maintain the certification.
- Provide an average of 50% direct billable time per month as established by the Agency.
- Successful Performance Evaluation rating of 3 or above. (See attached Performance Outcome Evaluation). A Performance Improvement Plan will be initiated on all scores below a 3 rating. An employee will be terminated if the Performance Improvement Plan is viewed as unsuccessful after 2 attempts.