Recovery Hub Associate

Job Description

Job Description

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Our purpose is to provide the best possible services that ensure full access to quality living and spread the power of inclusivity.

We serve over 7,000 people with disabilities, behavioral health challenges, and those who are Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing.

If you don’t want just any job if you want to work where you can create truly transformational change then Anixter is the place for you.

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SUMMARY :

The Recovery Hub Specialist works directly with adults to support recovery from serious mental illness in a drop-in center.

The drop-in center is a place where people come and guide their own journey of health and wellness. The MHS RH will partner with clients on enhancing coping skills, activities of daily living, and accessing community.

This position will advocate for members, and provide person-centered, recovery focused, strengths-based, trauma-informed support in a drop in center setting.

Clients come to the setting to seek social connectedness in a judgment free zone the center may see up to 50 clients per day.

Attendance is based solely on client choice.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES :

Create a welcoming, accepting environment and support people with mental health maintenance according to individual needs and goals.

Encourage the development of friendships, positive interactions, and leisure activities.

Respond to medical and behavioral / psychiatric crisis in accordance with agency policy and procedure. This includes all related documentation.

Provide effective recovery-based services and assist members to obtain services suited to their recovery needs.

Provide emergency assistance / program coverage during scheduled hours, including at other MH sites as required.

Work collaboratively as a team with other staff to provide required services for members.

Develop and implement group mental health services and activities. Promote consumer driven mental health services and enhance the abilities of members to make choices.

Assist members to advocate for themselves and engage in stigma busting.

Communicate effectively and professionally with all stakeholders. Address concerns and issues related to members and program services.

Share information concerning members with other employees’ as relevant within confidentiality rules.

Adhere to all agency safety policies and procedures.

Maintain flexibility while performing duties. This may include the need to travel off-site or to rearrange the scheduling of breaks and lunch to meet the immediate needs of the program.

Maintain a professional demeanor in both manner and attire as a representative of the agency in conducting all activities, services, and instructions.

Support a healthy environment by motivating members to keep physical plant up to agency cleanliness and sanitary standards.

Complete all competency-based training as required.

Model and consistently practice support, interacting with members to develop mutually responsible relationships, avoiding the helper / helpee dynamic.

Utilize structures for the inclusion of member voice into group and events planning, as well as day-to-day activities.

Work with all members in the program, no caseloads.

REQUIREMENTS :

Mental Health Professional (MHP) per administrative rule 132 preferred. Minimum RSA (21 years old minimum, high school education and demonstrated service skills) or CRSS

6 months experience working with people are diagnosed with mental illness preferred.