SOAR Advocate

Description

Full-time position consisting of 40 hours per week.

Compassion. Empowerment. Recovery. Courage. Guidance.

Our goal at Crosswinds Counseling and Wellness is to provide dynamic, culturally sensitive, high quality behavioral health care to individuals in the most effective, caring, and efficient manner. We believe our team is one of the most innovative, inspiring, and resourceful teams working in community mental health today.

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Our values of compassion, integrity, equity and hope reflect in everything we do.

The SOAR (SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery) Advocate helps individuals at risk for/experiencing homelessness who have a serious mental illness, medical impairment, and/or a co-occurring substance use disorder apply for Social Security disability benefits.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Brings positive energy and approaches to the rapidly evolving changes and challenges of a complex workplace.
• Demonstrates skills in the role of case management.
• Completes required training within appropriate time frames.
• Exhibits good listening skills, verbal skills, and written communication skills.
• Must be able and willing to be flexible, a self-starter, punctual, and have the ability to maintain a schedule.
• Must be able to relate to patients empathetically and non-judgmentally.
• Must be proficient at basic keyboarding/word-processing skills.
• Assures clinical and administrative documentation policies are followed.
• Assists in the completion of necessary state reporting on the status of patients.
• Provides consultation and review of potential SOAR cases.
• Conducts meetings with staff who serve as SOAR advocates, for the purpose of effective communication and program coordination.
• Represents agency through attendance and participation in various groups and organizations on the local and statewide level.
• Serves as extended member of the treatment team, backing up and assisting other community case managers as required.
• Maintains responsibility for organizing a schedule and establishing priorities according to existing patient and agency needs.

Professional Development

• Attends workshops, continuing education, and conferences in order to maintain and build skills and expand professional knowledge.
• Actively reads and explores innovative ways to provide services.
• Uses creative knowledge to expand and develop new program ideas, in collaboration with colleagues and supervisor.
• Must complete Case Management Training and provide training certificate to agency within six months of hire
• Become a Certified SOAR Specialist for Kansas.
• Maintain SOAR Specialist certification requirements.
• Participate in continuing education activities and required in-services as requested, to enhance and improve job performance.

Work Environment

This job operates in both a community and a professional office setting. This position primarily works with clients out in the community, in their homes, in offices of other providers, and within the residential facilities. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

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. This list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; handle objects; grasp and reach for items with hands and arms; manipulate hands and fingers; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, or crouch; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Language skills are required, including the ability to read, write, comprehend, and speak the English language. This position also requires the ability to interpret written materials, write reports and business correspondence, and effectively present and respond to questions.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm.

Travel

Regular travel within Lyon to provide case management services and may include surrounding counties as needed.

Qualifications

Travel

Regular travel within Lyon to provide case management services and may include surrounding counties as needed.

Required Education and Experience

• Associate Degree, 2 years’ experience in the health and human services field.
• One year of experience working with SPMI population.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or related field.
• One year of experience in a specialty field.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

Ability to work with persons with severe and persistent mental illness; possess demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to react effectively in a variety of human service situations; ability to work independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary therapeutic team; possess prior computer experience in Microsoft Office programs and basic computer fluency.

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