Social Service Counselor 1 Print (https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/louisiana/jobs/newprint/4658384) Apply  Social Service Counselor 1 Salary $2,784.00 - $5,009.00 Monthly Location New Orleans, LA Job Type Classified Job Number MHSD-198285-4-ACZ Department Metropolitan Human Services District Opening Date 09/24/2024 Closing Date 9/29/2024 11:59 PM Central + Description + Benefits + Questions Supplemental Information 719 Elysian Fields Avenue New Orleans, LA. 70117 Metropolitan Human Services District (MHSD) is one of ten Local Governing Entities (LGE) serving persons with Mental Health Disorders, Addictive Disorders and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities in Louisiana. Legislated by the State and through its Board of Directors, MHSD is responsible for the operation and management of community-based programs and services for the pa We currently hiring for a Social Service Counselor 1. This is a fulltime classified position. The Social Service Counselor (Peer Specialist) will work within the Advocacy Division, and will attribute its skills to obtain resources for those persons served with behavioral health disabilities. The Social Service Counselor (Peer Specialist) is vital to client services and its duties and responsibilities are directly related to the program and its outcomes are vital to the success of the program. They provide persons served with care coordination, including appropriate referrals for community-based resources that are within the service parameters. The incumbent for this position will need good interpersonal skills, because they will be interacting with persons served daily. The incumbent will also need extremely good research and analysis skills to determine what resources are referrals are needed for persons served with addiction disorders. The incumbent will also need to possess strong communication and customer service skills. Persons served shall be treated with respect and dignity, and shall not be treated any differently because of their disabilities. AN IDEAL CANIDATE SHOULD POSESS THE FOLLLOWING COMPETENCIES: Communicating Effectively : T he ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas. Fostering Engagement: The ability to encourage others to invest in their work and the success of the organization. Managing Resources: The ability to ensure resources such as time, money, and people are utilized appropriately to result in maximum business value. Making Accurate Judgments: The ability to form an opinion objectively and decisively based on relevant information and in accordance with established standards. Adapting to Change: The ability to adjust plans, expectations, and behaviors in response to change. Demonstrating Accountability: The ability to accept ownership for your actions, behaviors, performance, and decisions. Demonstrating Initiative: The ability to assess information and take action independently to help the organization achieve its goals. Learning Actively: The ability to acquire necessary knowledge and skills to improve performance and achieve organizational goals. Using Data: The ability to use relevant and valid data to inform a recommendation for action. Valuing Diversity: The ability to develop an awareness of DEIBA challenges and craft personal plans that contribute to improving organizational cultures and environments. No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy. To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page. *Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete. Note: regarding the advertised pay range: The advertised maximum amount listed is the maximum salary a person can make while in this title/level over their career and not the maximum amount we are allowed to pay a new hire. C ompensation will be based on qualifications, experience, and skills. For further information about this vacancy contact: Aiesha C. Zapata Human Resources Business Partner aiesha.carter-zapata@mhsdla.org Minimum Qualifications MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: A baccalaureate degree. SUBSTITUTIONS: Six years of full-time work experience in any field may be substituted for the required baccalaureate degree. Candidates without a baccalaureate degree may combine work experience and college credit to substitute for the baccalaureate degree as follows: A maximum of 120 semester hours may be combined with experience to substitute for the baccalaureate degree. 30 to 59 semester hours credit will substitute for one year of experience towards the baccalaureate degree. 60 to 89 semester hours credit will substitute for two years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree. 90 to 119 semester hours credit will substitute for three years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree. 120 or more semester hours credit will substitute for four years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree. College credit earned without obtaining a baccalaureate degree may be substituted for a maximum of four years full-time work experience towards the baccalaureate degree. Candidates with 120 or more semester hours of credit, but without a degree, must also have at least two years of full-time work experience to substitute for the baccalaureate degree. NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENT: Positions that provide addictive disorder counseling services require certification or eligibility for certification as a Counselor in Training (CIT), or a current practice credential as a Certified Addiction Counselor (CAC), Registered Addiction Counselor (RAC), or Licensed Addictive Counselor (LAC) issued by the Addictive Disorder Regulatory Authority (ADRA), or its successor, pursuant to the Addictive Disorders Practice Act, LA RS. 37.3386-3390.6 Positions that provide addictive disorder prevention services require certification or eligibility for certification as a Prevention Specialist in Training (PSIT), or a current practice credential as a Certified Prevention Professional (CPP), Registered Prevention Professional (RPP), Licensed Prevention Professional (LPP) issued by the Addictive Disorder Regulatory Authority (ADRA), or its successor, pursuant to the Addictive Disorders Practice Act, LA RS. 37.3386-3390.6 NOTE: Any college hours or degree must be from an accredited college or university. Job Concepts Function of Work: To provide general social services work through direct services and/or general counseling. Level of Work: Entry. Supervision Received: Close from a Social Service Counselor 5, social worker, or other higher-level social services personnel. Supervision Exercised: None. Location of Work: Department of Health and Hospitals; LSU-Health Sciences Centers, Acute Care Hospitals, Medical Schools; Veterans Affairs; Department of Corrections; Department of Social Services. Job Distinctions: Differs from the Professional Counselor job series by the absence of a master's degree and licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor. Differs from the Social Service Counselor 2 by the supervision received. Examples of Work Duties & Responsibilities: Peer Support and Care Coordination + Maintains the responsiveness of behavioral health services by identifying the needs of the persons served within the community as well as those PSS serving within clinics and grants, evaluating the quality of behavioral health services, addressing issues and concerns, resolving problem, and developing plans and objectives. + Convenes and conducts meetings with agency departments, community officials, and the public to ensure the high levels of resource service delivery are maintained. Also plans monthly PSS All Staff meeting and coordinates team building activities. + Identifies, defines, and provides input on issues, needs, and problems relation to behavioral health, and proposes solutions to the program manager and members of consumer and family groups as well as PSS. + Serves as a point of contact for persons served and their advocates who are experiencing difficulties with behavioral health and facilitates solutions to resolve such difficulties. + Serves as point of contact for PSS submitting Care Coordination applications on the behalf of persons served as well as serving as the first line of communication for any issues with PSS or recovery support services. + I dentifies the various resources needed by the addiction services unit, persons served, the community, and ensures that those resources are provided in a timely manner in order to provide top notch services for persons served who rely on quick services for a speedy recovery. + Identifies the appropriate referrals for community-based resources that are within the service parameters. Researches the proper facilities and other programs that the persons served may need and provides those referrals. + Interacting with the persons served to find out what their needs are. Addresses those needs by determining what resources what best serve the person served. Make sure they are providing persons served with the proper care coordination. + Consulting with the addiction services team to ensure that the proper resources are being distributed and uses suggestions to better serve the persons served. + Oversees day-to-day operations of PSS to ensure that proper documentation is occurring and that PSS services are being delivered in a manner that is consistent with policies and procedures. + Listens to management about performance and the suggestions and direction given to ensure that resources and referrals are being allocation properly and in the best interest of the persons served. + Assists the Advocacy Director/Manager with recruiting and hiring new PSS. 20% Manages a caseload of persons served within behavioral health services + Schedules appointments with persons served to determine what their needs are, evaluation progress in counseling sessions, and making recommendations to the treatment team. + Provides client assessments to better learn the persons served, which will assist in providing the correct resources and referrals needed. + Follows up with the caseload of persons served to make sure that the resources and / or referrals providing are correct and are working in their best interests. + Creates reports and tracks what resources are being used, and where the persons served are being referred. + Serves as a liaison between client, family and agency. May also need to interview family members to get a better background of the needs of persons served. May need to assess individual and family roles, relationships and reactions and to identify specific diagnosis-related concrete social service and counseling needs. 5% Performs other duties as assigned Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career. As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program: Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/ Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year: + New Year's Day + Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, + Mardi Gras, + Good Friday, + Memorial Day, + Independence Day, + Labor Day, + Veteran's Day, + Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. ***** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase. Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to): + Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\_Retirement\_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system + Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org), + Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others 01 Are you a current or former Louisiana State Civil Service Employee? + Yes + No 02 Do you possess a bachelor's degree? + Yes + No 03 Do you possess a master's degree? + Yes + No 04 Do you have experience working in a behavioral health setting? 05 Rate your ability to demonstrate initiative based on our definition: The ability to assess information and take action independently to help the organization achieve its goals. + I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable demonstrating initiative. + I have limited experience or require assistance to demonstrate initiative. + I can demonstrate initiative. + I can and help others improve their ability to demonstrate initiative. 06 Explain your rating by providing specific and relevant examples in the box below. 07 Rate your ability to communicate effectively based on our definition: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas. + I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable communicating effectively. + I have limited experience or require assistance to communicate effectively. + I can communicate effectively. + I can communicate effectively and help others improve their communication. 08 Explain your rating by providing specific and relevant examples in the box below. 09 Rate your ability to value diversity based on our definition: The ability to develop an awareness of DEIBA challenges and craft personal plans that contribute to improving organizational cultures and environments. + I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable valuing diversity. + I have limited experience or require assistance to value diversity. + I can value diversity. + I can value diversity and help others improve their ability to value diversity. 10 Explain your rating by providing specific and relevant examples in the box below Required Question Agency State of Louisiana Address For agency contact information, please refer to the supplemental information above. 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