The Direct Service Worker position is an integral part of our clinical services and in ensuring client safety while clients progress towards rehabilitation goals daily.

Description

This is a 1099/Contract Position

Compensation: Fee for Service $20 per every 15 min session or visit with client.

Location: This position is hybrid but does require travel to see patients in the Baltimore Region and occasional work from the office.

The Direct Service Worker position is an integral part of our clinical services and in ensuring client safety while clients progress towards rehabilitation goals daily. The DSW has the responsibility of assisting an individual who has a psychiatric disability in the process of restoration of community functioning and well-being. This position seeks to effect changes in a person's environment and in a person's ability to deal with his/her environment, to facilitate improvement in symptoms or personal distress. These services are combined with independent living and social skills training, vocational rehabilitation, social support and network enhancement, and access to leisure activities. The DSW has overall responsibility for implementing and providing daily services, program activities to clients and include:

Provide strategies in designing planned interventions for complex clients by providing feedback to the treatment team and the Rehabilitation Specialists.
Provide services aimed at reducing symptoms/behaviors associated with a mental health disability.
Provide interventions and services to promote the highest possible level of success – socially, self-care, increase positive coping skills - through restoration and maintenance.
Assist clients in educational, work skills, sobriety or with other issues related to their diagnosis by obtaining skills to live independently or by preventing decompensation or a more restrictive situation. Objectives of the position include (but not limited to):
Assist clients in gaining interpersonal skills.
Thorough documentation identifying client symptoms or behaviors and interventions aimed at assisting client with needs.
Participation in developing client interventions with the Rehabilitation Specialist and treatment teams.
Provide client interventions in social skills training to improve communication skills and facilitate appropriate interpersonal behavior.
Problem solving, support, supervision of clients related to program and social activities.
Assist clients in gaining and utilizing skills necessary to participate in community reintegration– educational groups, behavior control, social skills, communication skills, ADLs support, successful interpersonal behavior, and coping skills.
Observe clients, provide support, positive reinforcement.
Implement interventions derived from the client treatment plan, reinforce client selected coping skills.
Teach and model appropriate social skills.
Participate in scheduled meetings to discuss client progress.
Involvement in the prevention of escalation, crisis intervention, decompensation and all necessary documentation following such events.
Maintain accurate and detailed records.
Follow facility documentation policies regarding documentation.
Track data as needed/assigned.
Review and request feedback to maintain best practices and standards.
Maintain open lines of communication and uphold strong ethical and professional guidelines to ensure client care is superior.

Minimum Qualifications:

High School Diploma; B.A /B.S. Preferred
Experience or education related to understanding mental illness and working with clients diagnosed with a mental illness.
Strong interpersonal communication and client centered communication skills
Preferred Skills: Understanding of general psychosocial standards and medical practices associated with the treatment of mental illness.
Work or volunteer experience in a mental health setting DSW I
DSW I is the entry level position in the client direct care services.

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