POSITION SUMMARY:

Person in this position is responsible for the delivery of face-to-face Day Center activities and services to clients participating in the program. Essential Job Functions include those listed below.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Complete assessment of each client to determine their individual strengths, needs, abilities, and preferences. Initiate and sustain each individual’s motivation to participate in treatment, using techniques of engagement including therapeutic relationships, individual counseling, and brief interventions based on the stages of change. Develop a comprehensive service plan for each client that includes the results of assessments, and short- and long-term treatment goals and objectives of the client. Monitor the clients ‘progress with their individualized treatment plans through all phrases of the program. Make appropriate referrals to outside agencies as appropriate. Provide daily treatment and curriculum-based education groups on the basic concepts, emotional incarceration relapse prevention, motivation for treatment and the stages of change, communicable diseases, cognitive skills, conflict resolution, fundamental social skills, and personal moral development. Maintain all information according to the laws of confidentiality as required by the Federal Register, General Provisions, Title 42, Chapter 1, Part 2, which prohibits making disclosures without the specific written consent of the client, or as otherwise permitted by such regulations. Submit all individual client data on a weekly basis for entry into the WestCare database. Prepare and submit all reports as required. Assist in development of client discharge and aftercare plans. Attend all required staff development training, including WestCare in-service training such as conducting assessments, clinical skills, developing service plans, emotional incarceration, relapse prevention, motivation for treatment, and stages of change, cognitive skills, conflict resolution, social skills, moral development, communicable diseases, and self-help groups. Must Embrace and embody the mission, vision, guiding principles, clinical vision, and goals of WestCare Foundation; and Perform all other duties as assigned.