Co-Occurring Specialist

Join our team today and immerse yourself in a rewarding career for years to come!

Bring care directly to those who need it most. Your work happens in the community, providing hands-on support in real-life settings to help individuals maintain stability, independence, and connection to resources.

As a Co-Occurring Specialist, you will work within the Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) team in Cherry Hill, Camden County, NJ. This community-based program provides comprehensive, integrated rehabilitation, treatment, and support services to individuals with serious and persistent mental illness who have had repeated hospitalizations and are at serious risk for psychiatric hospitalization.

The mission of the PACT program is to decrease hospitalizations, increase vocational opportunities, and improve the quality of life for our consumers. PACT services are the most intensive level of outpatient services in the community.

Schedule: Monday-Friday 830a-5p with 30 minute unpaid lunch; weekends as needed

Pay: $50,000-$55,000

Responsibilities:

• A fully integrated member of the PACT team who provides clinical assessment, service planning, wellness counseling, case management and associated documentation as required to meet client needs. The Co-Occurring Specialist shall provide highly individualized services for persons served offered in individual and group modalities. Some of the responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Create and Maintain :
• A wellness and recovery oriented environment by using person-first language, respectful documentation, and person centered planning. All services provided will promote a wellness and recovery outcome.
• Participates:
• As a team member in the frequent monitoring and assessment of the mental health status of people served as well as related variables, including significant others, the home and the community in which the person served lives
• Within the team, in the development of substance abuse assessment, comprehensive assessment and a service plan, often focusing on substance abuse treatment needs of the person receiving services
• Provides:
• Mental health education, community living skill training and supportive counseling in the home and other natural environments to persons served and significant others, with special focus on substance abuse education and intervention needs of the person served
• Crisis intervention services for persons served with acute psychiatric needs whose circumstances and conditions require rapid intervention. Stages wise treatment is provided utilizing motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral techniques.
• 24 hour on-call coverage on a rotating schedule
• Outreach to newly enrolled individuals and encourages those reluctant to accept mental health services through interventions with them and/or family members and friends concerned with the their welfare
• Technical assistance and education to members of the team in the area of co-occurring disorders. Develops co-occurring disorders materials and strategies for individual and group interventions, in conjunction with the team
• Training and supervision in Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Techniques and skills
• In-vivo training and supervision to PACT staff
• Orientation to new staff on PACT services and recovery-based interventions
• Consults:
• With other service providers and resource people regarding the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation needs of the persons served
• E-mail:
• Creates, receives and responds to all e-mail correspondence in a prompt and professional manner. Emails must be read once per work day/shift
• Decision making:
• On a regular and continuous basis, exercises sound judgment and assume responsibility for decisions, consequences and results having an impact on people, costs and/or quality of service within the functional area

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Medical and dental insurance
• Vision plan
• Retirement plan
• Flexible spending plans
• EXCELLENT time benefits for qualified positions!
• Opportunity for personal and career growth, including supervision towards professional licensure for eligible candidates
• Team-oriented environment - we practice the FISH! Philosophy

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a behavioral health field plus two years post- Degree experience providing dual disorder services to individuals with co-occurring serious and persistent mental illness and substance abuse;

• The Co-Occurring Specialist shall hold the professional credentials required by the NJ Alcohol and Drug Licensing and Certification Counseling Committee (i.e. CADC/LCADC).

All positions require a valid driver's license in good standing, and pre-employment drug screening. Oaks Integrated Care considers applicants for all positions without regard to: race; color; religion; sex; national origin; age; sexual orientation; marital or veteran status; the presence of a medical condition, genetic information or handicap, unrelated to performing the tasks of the job; or any other legally protected status.