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The Behavioral Health Associate reflects the mission, vision, and values of NMHC, adheres to the organizations Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

The Behavioral Health Associate, under the direction of the Manager of Outpatient Mental Health, delivers direct care to the psychiatric patient. This role effectively interacts with the patients and their support network, and with the treatment milieu to facilitate positive patient outcomes. The Behavioral Health Associate will perform these tasks in a fashion where they assure, embrace, and communicate the pledge, values and policies of NM.

Community Support Team (CST) is recovery and resiliency oriented, intensive, community based rehabilitation and outreach service for adults. It is team-based and consists of mental health rehabilitation interventions and supports necessary to assist the recipient in achieving and maintaining rehabilitative, resiliency and recovery goals.

Community Support Team is designed to meet the educational, vocational, residential, mental health, co-occurring disorders (MH/SA, MH/DD, MH/Medical), financial, social, and other treatment support needs of the recipient. Interventions are provided primarily in natural settings, and are delivered face to face, by telephone, or by video conference with individual recipients and their family/significant others as appropriate, to the primary well-being and benefit of the recipient. Community Support Team assists in the development of optimal developmentally appropriate community living skills, and in setting and attaining recipient (and family in the case of children) defined recovery/resiliency goals.

Community Support Team may serve as a step down for individuals transitioning from more intensive or restrictive levels of care, or for those with psychiatric hospitalizations/repeated detoxification incidence in the past 18 months who are at risk of out of home placement. It is provided to recipients to decrease hospitalizations and crisis episodes and increase community tenure/independent functioning; increase time working, in school or with social contacts; and personal satisfaction and autonomy. Community support team may also serve as a step up from less intensive levels of care when those interventions have not succeeded in meeting the individual’s clinical and rehabilitative needs.

Responsibilities:

• Under supervision, provides supportive counseling, case management, and community support services.
• Assesses patient and patients family needs, develops treatment plans, provides and evaluates patient care, and assists with discharge planning.

Required:

• Bachelors degree in related field.
• One year of experience interacting with clients for treatment of mental health
• Valid Driver's License
• Ability to travel to and from multiple work sites and in the community on a daily basis.

Additional Information:

This role is responsible for providing high quality services that promote optimal social, emotional, and behavioral functioning. They provide intensive case management and community support individual/group services to adults in DeKalb County both in office and natural settings (i.e. home/community).  This role provides services to adults suffering from Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI), which includes, but not limited to, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder with Psychosis, Major Depressive Disorder with Psychosis, and PTSD.  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.