Habilitation Specialist at People Encouraging People

People Encouraging People is a non-profit behavioral healthcare corporation dedicated to providing life-transforming rehabilitation and support services to people who are disabled or disadvantaged. PEP services are values-based and designed specifically for each individual’s challenges. PEP is committed to helping our clients become accepted and productive members of our community.

Position available in Baltimore

People Encouraging People participates in community behavioral health services. We are directly involved with people who have serious and persistent mental health and substance abuse disorders. We continuously strive to provide these clients with integrity, honesty and respect.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Habilitation Specialist assists individuals receiving services in acquiring and/or maintaining the skills, resources, personal habits, and positive attitudes that will enable them to attain/or enhance healthy personal relationships and make healthy choices and decisions in adult life.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develops and provides structured services and skill building activities designed to meet the needs of individuals receiving services in accordance with their valued outcomes and assist in the scheduling and planning of same.
• Facilitates, assists, and/or models the attainment of needed resources and services.
• Participates in the development and implements the individual habilitation plan (aka rehabilitation plan) for individuals receiving services to reflect their interests, capabilities, and needs, and to enhance their skills and level of independence.
• Encourages individuals to express and develop their individual interests
• Provides individuals with opportunities to maintain/ enhance their existing skills, overall
• functioning and independence, and sense of belonging and community integration through
• various in-house and community activities.
• Assists individuals in achieving their valued outcomes by providing prompts, reminders,
• guidance and role modeling in areas such as socialization, personal hygiene, exercise,
• nutrition, behaviors, etc., while involved in skill building activities.
• Provide appropriate physical care of assigned individuals to maintain their cleanliness, safety, and comfort. This would include tasks such as direct assistance with personal and home management. This also includes monitoring, correcting, and modeling.
• appropriate behaviors.
• Ensures safety and welfare of individuals in their movement and transport.
• Develops individual specific programs and provides immediate feedback on performance.
• Transports individuals receiving services to external appointments and community resources while also providing community travel training
• Takes initiative and works independently or with other people within programs, without
• supervisory directions.
• Provides self-esteem building opportunities for consumers through recreation, arts, sports, and other community activities
• Assists consumers in developing healthy boundaries and relationships, including within the program, with family, with love interests and other significant others
• Assists in maintaining good physical health by facilitating healthy meal planning, food shopping and meal preparation
• Promotes health by assisting with organizing and attending medical, dental, behavioral
• health or other recommended health services; promotes behavioral health by monitoring and promoting adherence to prescribed medications; adheres to harm reduction approach as dictated by substance use/abuse history.
• Maintains safe and clean working area and ensures adequate material for goal
• implementation.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Possess good time management skills

• Ability and desire to work as part of an interdisciplinary team

• Moderate level of written and oral communication skills

• High level of interpersonal skills

• Knowledge of behavioral techniques, behavioral health disorders, and the impact of trauma to assist in the care of individuals receiving services

• Knowledge of computers and ability to utilize word processing programs

EDUCATION, WORK EXPERIENCE AND JOB REQUIREMENTS

Preferred: Associate or bachelor’s degree in human services plus one-year pertinent experience in providing services to young adults with behavioral health disorders and a valid Maryland driver’s license in good standing.

Minimum: High School diploma or GED and valid Maryland State driver’s license in good standing.

COMMENTS

Must demonstrate knowledge and understanding of mental illness and treatment methodologies.

Hours are 11:30am - 8pm or as needed to benefit the program