Group Life Counselor I

002 Sea Mar Community Health Center; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Part time

Job summary

Sea Mar Community Health Centers is hiring an entry level Group Life Counselor I to join the multidisciplinary treatment team in a residential setting. You will provide direct services to patients, including admissions procedures, monitoring behavior, group facilitation, milieu management, and supervision of youth in a high-risk population.

The role emphasizes adhering to mission, values, and treatment policies while supporting families and advocating for the clients.

Qualifications

• Entry level position; basic understanding of how to provide the direct services listed above.
• Must follow supervisor's instructions and perform other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Maintains professional standards and follows agency treatment policies and procedures and applicable regulations (WAC/RCW).
• Gains working knowledge of relevant WACs, WIGs, RCWs.
• Attends regular staff meetings and in-service trainings.
• Completes daily log keeping and required documentation to support patient care.

Job description

Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State.

Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services.

Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services.

We are recruiting for the following position:

Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization

Position Summary

The Group Life Counselor I is an entry level Human Service position that is part of the multi-disciplinary treatment team providing direct services to patients in a residential setting. Direct services may include a combination or all of the following: admission procedures, monitor patient's behavior, educational group facilitation, milieu management, and supervision of patients. Services are provided to out-of- control, high-risk, chronic runaway youth and their families. These youth/adults have a primary diagnosis of chemical dependency and may also have mental health problems. An entry level person is expected to have a basic understanding of how to provide the direct services listed above. This job description does not suggest or imply that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. This person will be required to follow other instructions and to perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Duties and Responsibilities

As a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based on the belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhances self-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry-leading, client-centered, culturally-aware services.

• - Understanding and empathizing with client needs
• - Surpassing client expectations
• - Demonstrating a high level of integrity
• - Exhibiting compassion and commitment
• - Advocating for social justice- Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
• - Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology

As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to their utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• - Maintains professional standards and follows the treatment policies and procedures of the agency, as well as applicable federal, state and local regulations, especially WAC 388-877 requirements.
• - Gains a thorough working knowledge of appropriate WAC's, WIG's, and RCW's.
• - Attends regular staff meetings and in-service training for staff.
• - Completes all staff responsibilities as required, with emphasis on timeliness and accuracy.
• - Supports the Chemical Dependency Professional/Trainee with the patient's individualized treatment plan as designed and implemented by the treatment team.
• - Supports the Chemical Dependency Professional/Trainee in providing and referring clients to other treatment /service programs in the facility and in the community as needed.
• - Monitors the clients, log all activities in the log book, do laundry for youth clients, clean up, and be responsible for graveyard shift activities. Group Life Counselors will also assist counselors: They will attend groups with clients who are more volatile to provide extra support, attend AA meetings with clients, and monitor clients while the clients are completing housework and during quiet time. They will serve food if necessary.
• - Demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• - Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
• - Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• - Able to identify and categorize each patient's age-specific grouping of needs, such as those for infant, adolescent, or geriatric patients.
• - Completes daily record keeping as directed by the Program Manager, following the structure of the problem - oriented patient records system.
• - Completes daily logging, Extraordinary Incident Reports (EIR's), medication logging, etc. on time and accurately.
• - Prepares current patient progress reports and completion notices and provides them to the courts, probation departments and referral sources when appropriate.
• - Completes on time all of the required Federal, State, County and Local forms for each patient.
• - Provides all physical care of patients requi