CSPECH Worker

Description SUMMARY

• The Community Support for People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness (CSPECH) Worker is an integral part of the Program Team. The
• CSPECH
• Worker will perform, but is not limited to, the following duties: administration of program recordkeeping, conducting interviews, intakes, developing, implementing and monitoring individualized service plans, case reviews, and advocacy. This position requires home visits and community outreach. This position requires a flexible schedule including 1st and 2nd shifts. The agency has the right to change shifts based on the needs of the organization.

Essential functions

• Position Specific Duties Perform street outreach to engage the most vulnerable chronically homeless persons. Conduct screening and intake interviews to determine consumer eligibility for services. Provide consumer program orientation on services and requirements. Conduct confidential, quality assessments that are gender and culturally responsive and trauma informed. Develop, implement, and monitor an individualized treatment/service plan with each assigned consumer using collaborative information from all sources to develop short and long-term goals. Assist consumers with locating, obtaining, and maintaining housing while advocating and mediating with landlords. Possess knowledge of effective treatment modalities such as cognitive therapy, motivational interviewing and trauma informed techniques and Integrated Treatment in individual, group and family sessions. Meet, collaborate and coordinate services with probation/parole, employment and educational agencies, Department of Children and Families (DCF), human services providers, medical and primary care, clinical mental/behavioral health, and family support. Link consumers to services provided by community-based organizations such as peer support groups, legal services, nutritional counseling, HIV rapid-retesting and Hepatitis B and C testing and other sexually transmitted infections. Assist consumers with enrollment to obtain health insurance, Medicaid and other benefits such as SNAP, SSI/SSDI and TANF. Provide consumer education in finances, housing stability, behavioral and primary health, life skills and all aspects of addiction and related life domains. Provide crisis intervention by assessing severity of the episode, de-escalating the consumer, referring to the emergency response team as needed, and developing a safety plan to assist in resolving the crisis. Assist with resume writing, interview skills, employment search and enrollment into employment/educational programs. Develop and coordinate discharge planning with consumer, family, housing, and other community providers. Maintain an ongoing awareness of consumer’s mental health status adding services to maintain a therapeutic level of care as need change. Ability to climb at least three flights of stairs to visit consumers in their homes. Ability to respond to emergency situations by placing calls to Fire, Rescue, Police, and Medical, etc.