Behavioral Health Advocate
1 month ago
**Job Summary:**
We are seeking a skilled Behavioral Health Advocate to join our team at DESC. As a Behavioral Health Advocate, you will play a vital role in providing crisis intervention services, case management, and outreach support to individuals in need.
**About DESC:
DESC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with complex needs achieve their highest potential for health and well-being. Our vision is a community where no person is abandoned, ignored, or experiencing homelessness.
**Job Description:
The Mobile Response Team (MRT) provides 24/7 mental and behavioral health services at Health through Housing (HtH) facilities and targeted Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) sites across King County. As a Behavioral Health Advocate, you will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to provide crisis intervention, case management, and outreach support to individuals in need.
You will be responsible for:
- Providing timely outreach services to individuals needing crisis intervention services, assessment, referral, and linkage to needed services;
- Conducting multi-axial assessments, chemical dependency assessments, crisis intervention, stabilization, and meaningful engagement for adults;
- Establishing and implementing plans to successfully engage clients in relevant services and other resources;
- Facilitating recovery groups at housing sites;
- Completing all data collection and documentation required of the MRT Project and DESC in a timely manner;
- Developing and maintaining cooperative relationships with traditional & non-traditional programs/services providing services for the population served;
- Providing peer recovery support;
- Assisting residents with voicing their interests and goals through various channels;
- Helping participants identify, understand, and combat stigma and discrimination associated with mental health concerns and substance use disorders;
- Integrating personal experience with mental health concerns and substance use disorders into work with program participants;
- Working collaboratively with Peer Specialists across all DESC programs to grow, learn, develop with and from one another;
- Complying with applicable program research and evaluation procedures;
- Advocating for clients' access to both traditional and non-traditional community resources and services;
- Participating in psychiatric consultation, supervision, program meetings, and in-service trainings;
**Requirements:
To be successful as a Behavioral Health Advocate, you will need to have:
- Lived experience as a consumer of behavioral health services (mental health and/or substance use treatment) or be the parent or legal guardian of a child who has received behavioral health services;
- The ability to obtain Certified Peer Specialist certification from the Washington State Peer Counselor Training Program within 60 days of employment;
- Ability to meet Washington Department of Health requirements for registration as an Agency Affiliated Counselor (AAC) or any other superseding credential;
- A strong understanding of cultural humility and the ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds;
- An interest in working with clients who are difficult to engage and maintain in traditional mental health/substance use disorder programs;
- Strong knowledge of relevant community resources and methods for accessing them;
- Experience working with adults who are experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, have a mental health and/or co-occurring substance use disorders;
**Salary:** $45,000 - $55,000 per year, depending on experience.
**Benefits:**
- Dental, Life, Long-term Disability, Medical insurance with no premiums/payroll deductions for employee coverage;
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), ORCA card subsidy, Paid Time Off (34 days per year), Retirement Plan;
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