**This position is on-call as needed. Looking for candidates with experience facilitating skills-based groups (i.e. DBT, CBT, Shame Resilience, etc)** Pay rates for Union positions are set in the Collective Bargaining Agreement with SEIU Local 521. Each position has a total of six steps, Step 1 (entry level) through Step 6 (15 years of employment with the organization). Union staff are promoted from Step 1 to Step 2 upon their one-year anniversary. The current Step 1 rate for this position is $35.49/hr, and the current Step 6 rate for this position is $39.19/hr. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Provide mental health rehabilitation which assist and support clients in all areas of daily living. Duties may include any or all of the following:* • Facilitate groups and one-on-ones to help clients develop and strengthen life, coping, and independent living skills. • Provide group facilitation through field and periodic outings to promote community integration. • Interface directly with clients and provide counseling, particularly during times of conflict and crisis intervention. • Assess the independent living skills of clients and their stability; • Alert other professional staff of adverse reactions to medication or medication avoidance; • Provide appropriate consultation and back-up to support other staff in responding to client crisis; • Help clients strengthen problem-solving, socialization, and coping skills; • Encourage clients’ resourcefulness, self-empowerment, and understanding their diagnosis and/or illness. • Complete required documentation in accordance with agency, payor and regulatory requirements, utilizing computer technology.* • Provide transportation in personal or agency vehicles including, but not limited to, the transportation of clients and/or program supplies for agency business.* OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Provide appropriate consultation and back-up support to other staff in responding to client crises.* • Attend and participate in staff, program, agency and community meetings and training; coordinate events, as needed. • Interface with staff, clients, and visitors, as conditions require and in an unobtrusive manner.* • Ensure compliance with applicable health and safety or other regulatory requirements.* • Ensure program facilities are clean and well kept. KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED: (E = Essential; D = Desired) • Education and Experience: High School diploma, GED, or equivalent education, and one year human service experience. (E) Experience in a mental health setting preferred. (D) Human service experience may include facilitating groups; developing consumer-run, self-help activities; providing peer support. (D) • License: Valid California driver’s license, current car insurance, and a good driving record as documented by a DMV report. (E) • Demonstrated safe and proper handling, use, and disposal of hazardous materials. (E) • Demonstrated ability to: • Work independently and in a small team environment; (E) • Engage and communicate effectively with others in both verbal and written English; (E) • Monitor and support developmental growth and the recovery process; (E) • Manage multiple tasks and demands; (E) • Employ tact and diplomacy, exercise good judgment, and act calmly in emergency situations; (E) • Work from a strengths-based, harm-reduction, social rehabilitation model; (E) • Work effectively with persons differing in value systems, ethnicity, cultural backgrounds, language capabilities and disabilities; (E) • Work collaboratively with individuals identified as those with serious mental illness who meet the following criteria: histories of hospitalization, institutionalization, including with the criminal justice system, substance abuse, low engagement in medication treatment, and difficulty in participating in structured activities and living independently; (E) • Work with populations identified as high risk and/or considered under-represented in the County Mental Health system with multiple barriers; (E) • Exhibit exemplary customer service, compassion, and care in the execution of all duties and interactions. (E) • Demonstrated ability to work with participants who: • May also have histories of assaultive behavior; (E) • May have resided in long term care facilities for extended periods; (E) • May have patterns of service that relied almost exclusively on emergency and institutional care; (E) • May have cognitive difficulties and medical co-morbidities and are considered medically fragile; may also be developmentally disabled; (E) • May have long-term patterns of homelessness and criminal justice involvement. (E) • Knowledge of: • Clinical techniques for assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation of people with psychological disorders and associated medications; problem resolution and conflict resolution techniques; (D) • Community resources, including those required to meet the non-mental health needs of the target population; (E) • Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) and Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP). (D) • Special Requirements: Must be able to meet and receive a criminal records clearance, as required by Title XXII, other licensing regulations and Momentum practices. (E) • Proven proficiency in typing—minimum 40 net wpm; computer literacy, including Internet search and a basic proficiency level in Microsoft Office applications and Windows-based databases; (E) familiarity with UNIX-based databases. (D) • A valid California Driver License, with access to a reliable vehicle or for driving a company vehicle, current proof of auto liability insurance, and a clean DMV record, with eligibility for a Class B license. (D) • Physical requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job, with or without accommodation: • Standing, walking, grasping, finger flexion, moving/lifting/carrying objects up to 40 lbs., bending, stooping, crouching, kneeling, withstanding repetitive motion, and reaching repeatedly are required constantly (over 2/3 of the workday); (E) • Hearing and talking on telephone and in person is required occasionally (under 1/3 of workday); (E) • Balancing, climbing and crawling may be required occasionally; (E) • Physically able to assist clients and/or staff in the evacuation of program facilities in emergency situations. (E)