Relapse Prevention Community Support Specialist

AltaPointe Health Systems; Mobile (AL); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

AltaPointe Health Systems in Mobile, AL seeks a Recovery Engagement and Relapse Prevention professional to provide intensive, community-based engagement and support for individuals at elevated risk of hospitalization or crisis. You will establish recovery-oriented relationships, conduct outreach, and address barriers to treatment within a multidisciplinary team.

You will coordinate with crisis services, inpatient units, housing, and social supports to promote continuity of care and reduce

Qualifications

• Knowledge of psychiatric disorders in the adult population.
• Knowledge of cultural diversity.
• Knowledge of behavior management, crisis intervention and interventions common to acute psychotic consumers; as well as, to non-violent crisis intervention practices.
• Knowledge of psychiatric rehabilitation principles.
• Knowledge of available community employment resources.
• Knowledge of educational methods appropriate to adults with psychiatric disorders.

Responsibilities

• Provides intensive, community-based engagement and support to individuals identified by the Relapse Prevention Team as having elevated risk for psychiatric hospitalization, crisis utilization, treatment disengagement, homelessness, substance use relapse, emergency department utilization, or other adverse outcomes.
• Establishes and maintains consistent, respectful, recovery-oriented relationships with individuals receiving services.
• Conducts outreach to individuals who have missed appointments, disengaged from services, recently discharged from psychiatric hospitalization or crisis services, or otherwise require increased engagement.
• Utilizes persistent but respectful engagement strategies while honoring the individual’s rights, preferences, autonomy, culture, and dignity.
• Assists individuals in identifying barriers to treatment participation and works with the interdisciplinary team to develop practical strategies to address those barriers.
• Supports engagement of individuals transitioning from higher levels of care, including crisis services, inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, residential services, or other intensive services.

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Job description

AltaPointe Health Systems in Mobile, AL seeks a Recovery Engagement and Relapse Prevention professional to provide intensive, community-based engagement and support for individuals at elevated risk of hospitalization or crisis. You will establish recovery-oriented relationships, conduct outreach, and address barriers to treatment within a multidisciplinary team.

You will coordinate with crisis services, inpatient units, housing, and social supports to promote continuity of care and reduce