Job Description

Compensation: $17.00

Due to critical service need of the communities we serve, we are offering up to a $1000 sign-on bonus.*  We are eager to continue to provide quality and compassionate care in our service areas and need you to make this happen!

We are currently seeking a candidate for a Full Time position.

Compass Health Network is looking for a Community Living Instructor to be responsible for supervision of consumers to ensure their safety and well-being.

The hours for the position are: Tues. 8am-4pm, Sat & Sun 8am-8pm  

Essential Responsibilities

• Assesses and monitors a client’s adjustment to residential living.
• Monitors client participation and progress in organized treatment programs to assure the planned provision of services according to the client’s individual treatment plan.
• Provides individual assistance to clients in accessing needed mental health services including case coordination with other members of the treatment team.
• Assesses clients’ level of risks, strengths, and weaknesses and interviews clients, reviews records, and confers with other professionals to evaluate clients’ preparedness for independent living.
• Encourages medication compliance and provides education regarding medications and monitoring of side effects.
• Assists the client to access and utilize a variety of community agencies and resources to provide ongoing social, educational, vocational and recreational supports and activities.
• Intercedes on behalf of individual clients within the community-at-large to assist the client in achieving and maintaining their community participation.
• Maintains contact with clients who are hospitalized and coordinates with treatment team regarding discharge planning.
• Trains, coaches and supports clients in daily living skills, including housekeeping, cooking, personal grooming, accessing transportation, keeping a budget, paying bills and maintaining living space(s).
• Assists with the training/consultation of residential staff, particularly in the area of behavior management.
• Assists in creating personal support systems that include work with family members, legal guardians or significant others regarding the needs and abilities of a client.
• Encourages and promotes recovery efforts, client independence/self-care and responsibility.
• Provides holistic, person-centered care.
• Develops and supports wellness and recovery goals in collaboration with the individual served.
• Provides services to clients which are determined to be appropriate based on DLA score and assessed level of functioning.
• Uses creative engagement strategies to ensure intervention-based services are provided daily and documented in client record by the end of each shift.
• Actively communicates and coordinates with residential staff before, during and at the end of each shift regarding each client’s daily status, progress and needs.
• Actively participates in treatment team meetings and facilitates in the absence of RSC.
• Performs job duties with an efficient use of time based on client’s needs and ensures services are provided to clients daily.
• Notifies Residential Support Coordinator of any changes in client’s conditions.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outdoor weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk and sit. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and taste or smell. The employee is required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles. The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as:  preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal.