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Substance Use Disorder CRU Community Support Specialist

South Mississippi Mental Health Center
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Position Summary 

Use lived experience of recovery from substance use disorder to provide support, advocacy, and education.  This is a non-clinical position to provide support to individuals seeking or maintaining recovery.  This position serves as a bridge between clinical services and community-based recovery, offering mentorship, advocacy, and connection to resources while modeling successful recovery.  Designed to support clients in achieving stability, improving functioning, and accessing community resources.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Provide face-to-face assessment and services at the CRU within established timeframes (e.g., within 2 hours of initial contact when appropriate) 
  • Respond to clients’ needs promptly, including crisis management and after-hours emergency on-call duties for clients at the CRU.
  • Develop and implement individualized treatment plans, monitor progress, and coordinate with healthcare providers, family, and community agencies while at CRU and at discharge.
  • Teach communication, social, coping, and daily living skills; helps clients identify and avoid triggers; supports self-management of symptoms.
  • Maintain accurate, timely, and complete case records and service logs; submits required reports to DMH.
  • Ensure all services meet DMH standards and confidentiality requirements.
  • Work within SMMHC CRU team organization and structures to provide comprehensive SUD programs at CRU for clients with SUD diagnosis.
  • Utilize personal experience living with mental illness, incarceration history, and/or addiction recovery as a relatable cornerstone for providing services to individuals and in support groups.
  • Provide support, advocacy, and education using skills and abilities in both individual casework and support group situations.  Work with supervision to develop essential and evidence-informed programming for use with client-individuals and in support groups at the CRU.
  • Facilitate a daily or weekly support group – 1 hour peer-lead recovery maintenance group with individuals at CRU.
  • Maintain accurate electronic and hard-copy records of all services and support encounters and communications.  Report all required metrics in a timely manner with necessary precision and accuracy.
  • Utilize basic office communication and computing systems with skill, respect, and efficiency - EPIC EHR platform, MS Word and Excel, office telephone system and work cell phone.  Effectively utilize A/V equipment and technology for training and educational purposes.
  • Attend to continuous professional development, when not otherwise occupied by employment duties, by completing training and targeted educational modules as directed by director and supervision.
  • Attend and co-facilitate, as directed, clinical group therapies for clients at CRU.
  • Provide follow-up tracking/care as directed for SMMHC clients with respect to recovery status, trajectory, relapse, and/or welfare for 6 months post discharge from CRU, as directed.
  • SMMHC CRU SUD Community Support Services Professional will maintain a program of personal mental health and/or SUD recovery while employed to ensure they remain healthy and fit for the stress and challenges of working with a SUD client population.
  • Demonstrate appropriate interactions with coworkers that promote a pleasant work environment.
  • Complete additional job duties assigned by supervisor. 

 

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

  • A current or former consumer or first-degree family member of an individual knowledge who has received treatment for and self-identifies as a consumer or former mental health consumer.
  • Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills. 
  • Thorough knowledge of the 12-Step Model of Recovery and other recovery pathways.

 

Education and Qualification Requirements 

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in a mental health, intellectual/developmental disabilities or human services/behavioral health related field.
  • Requires DMH Community Support Professional credential within 30 days of hire and maintained throughout duration of employment.
  • Lived experience in substance use disorder recovery If in recovery, must demonstrate a minimum of six (6) months in self-directed recovery

Preferred

  • Previous experience in an A & D treatment setting strongly preferred.
  • Current certification of CPR/BLS and CPI/Mandt.