Community Engagement Specialist
Job Description
Job Description North Suffolk Community Services (NSCS) is seeking a person who is well-grounded in recovery. Because of their life experience with mental health recovery, the Community Engagement Specialist (CES) provides expertise that clinical training cannot replicate. This position is designated for a person who identifies as having lived experience of mental health recovery, resilience and healing as a means to inspire hope, optimism and the courage to act. CES’’s receive supervision from a Recovery Manager and are provided one on one support, psycho-educational groups and additional resources for NSCS clients. The Engagement Specialist engages in non-directive and supportive relationships that promote empowerment and self-learning.
This position is Full-Time Monday-Friday; 36 hours per week. Some nights and weekends required.
What you’ll do:
- Support person served, based on their needs in recovery-oriented skills, activities of daily living, socialization, and community integration.
- Provide consistent interventions to engage individuals in services and recovery, including in person and telehealth outreach and engagement efforts.
- Assist the treatment team to develop an individual action plan or support the person served in developing a wellness plan.
- Implement, teach, assist and/ or coach persons served with their individual action plan or recoverees who have developed their own wellness plan to review their goals and objectives on a consistent basis.
- All other duties as assigned.
What you’ll need:
- Education:
- High School Diploma/GED equivalent required. Bachelor’s Degree highly preferred.
- Experience:
- This individual must have lived experience with mental health and/or co-occurring disorders.
- Skills:
- Driver’s license preferred but not required to attend off-site functions.
Competitive & Comprehensive Benefits:
- Paid Time Off – Two weeks’ Vacation per year (three weeks after 1 year of service), 12 Sick Days per year, and 11 Paid Holidays per year
- Eligible employer for the PSLF program
- Health & Dental Insurance, with generous employer contribution
- Employer Paid Life Insurance
- 403 (b) Retirement Plan with employer matching
- Voluntary Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Medical & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Access to Credit Union Banking
- Access to State Tuition Remission Program (Worksite Specific)
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Discounted Movie Tickets
- Comprehensive Training Program
- Internal Advancement Opportunities