Community Specialist

Monarch - Company; United States; On-site; USD 17,000 - 24,000; Part time

Job summary

Monarch Healthcare is seeking a Community Specialist to build positive relationships with individuals receiving services and their families across work, home, school, or community settings.

The role supports individuals in achieving personal goals, provides caregiver relief, and ensures safety and rights protection while coordinating with teams and documenting progress and plans.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma is required.
• Driver's License (USA) is required.

Responsibilities

• Assess each person for hopes and desires and provide supports to help achieve them.
• Protect and promote rights; assist with advocacy and provide caregiver relief.
• Serve as a resource on community services and supports meeting needs/goals.
• Supervise, educate, and monitor individuals in work, home, school, or community settings.
• Provide one-on-one support for emotional, physical, and medical needs.
• Maintain a safe environment by following safety procedures.
• Foster person-centered, positive relationships and promote self-determination.
• Contribute to assessment and planning processes and the individual's plan.
• Document progress, goals, actions, and incident reports daily.
• Maintain attendance, records, and production sheets.
• Substitute in-house or community duties as needed.
• Assist in staff orientation, mentoring, and training.
• Attend meetings and training; maintain required certifications.
• Follow agency, state, and federal policies and regulations.
• Drive and travel may be required *.

Education

High School Diploma (Required)

Job description

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 15 Schedule: During the In-School Season: Monday through Friday from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., During the Out-of-School Season: Monday through Thursday from 7:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., and Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Pay Range Minimum: $15.00

Education: We're Looking for: High School Diploma (Required)

Certifications: We're Looking For: Drivers License (Valid) - USA

Experience: We're Looking For: Experience working with adults with a mental health diagnosis and/or developmental disabilities | Not Required

Job Description Summary

The Community Specialist is primarily responsible for developing a positive relationship with the individual receiving services and their family in a work, home, school, or community setting while assisting them in achieving their personal dreams and goals as designated in the individual goal plans, as well as providing periodic relief to the caregiver.

What You'll Do

• Assess each person receiving services for their hopes, dreams, and desires and provide supports that facilitate achievement.
• Ensure that the rights of each person receiving services are protected and promoted at all times. Assist people in developing advocacy skills, participating in advocacy efforts, and utilizing personal advocates, as well as, provide periodic relief to the caregiver.
• Serve as a resource for individual receiving services on community agencies, services, and supports that can meet identified needs/goals.
• Supervise, educate, and monitor (as needed) individual receiving services in work, home, school, or community type settings.
• Provide one-on-one support as needed to meet the emotional, physical, and medical needs of each person supported.
• Maintain a safe environment for community, employees, and individual receiving services by practicing safety procedures.
• Facilitate person-centered, effective, positive relationships with individual receiving services using positive approaches that promote self-determination in all areas of life.
• Provide input and recommendations into assessment and planning processes, and development of the individual’s plan.
• Implement person’s plan fully including but not limited to respite plan, within the requirements of the service definition, and document as required by the service definition and agency policy.
• Accurately complete all required documentation, including but not limited to, goal completion, actions toward outcomes, incident reports, timesheets, etc.
• Complete daily progress notes and communication log to assure appointments, goals, and interests are met and/or daily documentation.
• Assist in maintaining all necessary records, daily attendance, check sheets, production sheets, etc.
• Substitute in-house or in the community as demands occur.
• Assist new staff and/or current staff with orientation, mentoring, and training.
• Attend and actively participate in meetings and training as required. Maintain certification in all agency, state and federal training requirements.
• Demonstrate knowledge of and comply with all agency policies and procedures, as well as state and federal statutes and regulations related to specific program areas.
• Follow service definition guidelines for services being provided.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by the supervisor
• Driving and travel may be required *

*The definition of an Innovations direct care worker includes all workers required for compliance with, or delivery of, the relevant Innovations waiver service definitions and the delivery of a unit of Innovations services to individuals in the definition of direct care worker to be applied and shall include only caregivers who are contracted for the Page 230 Session Law 2023-134 House Bill 259 provision of services in a legally appropriate manner.

Benefits

We offer a competitive and flexible total rewards package designed to support the diverse needs of our team members. In addition to base compensation, eligible employees have access to a range of customizable benefits and perks, which may include comprehensive health coverage, retirement plans, professional development support, and more. Specific offerings are tailored to the role, employment type, and location. We look forward to discussing the details of your personalized compensation and benefits package-and what matters most to you-during the interview process.

You Belong at Monarch Healthcare

At Monarch Healthcare, we work together to provide life-changing care in communities across North Carolina and Rhode Island. As a team, we provide hope, promote wellness, and empower individuals and families impacted by mental illness, substance use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injury.

You’ll deserve a positive and encouraging work environment - a place where you can do your best work and grow as a professional. That is just what you’ll find at Monarch Healthcare. Here, we care for people, including our team members. We offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package that supports full-time and part-time team members and their families. More than just a job, this opportunity with Monarch Healthcare will give you room to spread your wings and grow because we believe in promoting from within and developing future leaders.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Monarch Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Monarch Healthcare offers opportunities as diverse as the people we support and the communities we serve.

Monarch Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer and we are firmly committed to supporting and celebrating all forms of diversity.

Any person with a disability who needs any reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to apply for a position or otherwise to participate in Monarch Healthcare job search or selection process, should contact [e-mail] or call [phone].

This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties and responsibilities to be performed. You will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties and responsibilities upon the request of a supervisor. This job description is subject to revision at the discretion of Monarch Healthcare.

Department: LTSS - Para Professional

Since 1958, Monarch Healthcare has focused on helping others and improving lives. Our caring, supportive team of professionals provides services that help people thrive. If you’re looking for a career with purpose, we have a place for you at Monarch Healthcare. We see the possibilities that exist for people living with mental illness, substance use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities and traumatic brain injuries and we help others see them as well. At Monarch Healthcare, you'll see the impact of your work every day when a man with a disability achieves his dream of finding a job, when a woman struggling with addiction walks into treatment for the first time or when a child facing a mental health crisis finds comfort and support. You can make a difference.

Monarch Healthcare is nationally accredited by The Joint Commission and committed to providing the highest quality care. To learn more about our services and the many ways we provide support, please call [phone] or visit www.MonarchNC.org.