Community Support Specialist
Location: Warrenton
Posted on: June 23, 2025
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Job Description:
Due to critical service need of the communities we serve, we are
offering a $1500 sign-on bonus.* Additional $500 sign-on bonus for
Qualified Mental Health Professionals. We are eager to continue to
provide quality and compassionate care in our service areas and
need you to make this happen! The Community Support Specialist
provides integrated, holistic, community-based support services.
This is a full-time, benefit eligible position. ESSENTIAL
FUNCTIONS: Clinical Service Provision • Using a motivational,
stage-matched approach, provide individualized and group education
services based upon strengths, needs, abilities, and preferences
identified collaboratively with client/family, focused on
supporting client’s movement toward recovery/resiliency goals •
Assist client in identifying strengths, needs, abilities, &
preferences regarding substance abuse/mental illness and
participate in development of Wellness Plan • Provide services from
a holistic perspective, incorporating coaching surrounding the
Eight Dimensions of Wellness, with attention to each domain of
wellness • Support client in completion of goals identified on
Wellness Plans, reviewing the WP with client as required and as
needed for updating of goals and objectives as items are achieved,
or as the client’s goals change • Aid in accessing public services,
including financial, housing, emergency assistance, food, etc. •
Maintain contact with clients who are hospitalized, participating
in discharge planning and communicating with all involved providers
in developing aftercare plans • Provide education and
skill-building in areas such as daily living skills,
employment/education, symptom management,
communication/relationships, budgeting, maintaining a residence,
etc., with focus on movement toward independent completion of these
tasks, or referral to long-term supports • Assist clients with
developing personal support systems, including, but not limited to,
work with family members, legal guardians, recovery communities,
etc. • Provide individual assistance to clients in accessing needed
services including accompanying clients to appointments to address
medical or other health needs • Follow up with clients regarding
appointments, completion of forms, returning forms or receipts and
other similar activities • Contact consumers who have unexcused
absences from the CSTAR program in order to re-engage them and
promote recovery efforts • Meet service provision expectations per
client needs and company guidelines • Complete documentation and
paperwork within the required timeframe Integrated Health Team •
Communicate actively with other members of the integrated team,
including psychiatrists, primary care physicians, specialists
(CPRC, Peer(s), ITCD, CSTAR, DBT, etc), nurses, dentists, NCMs,
etc. regarding all areas of client wellness, including client’s
adherence to medications, side effects, and efficacy of medications
• Seek and include input from Integrated Health Team providers on
client’s Wellness Plan • Work with clients to determine services
needed and provide hand-offs to those services • Make referrals to
additional services/providers as needed for client’s Integrated
Health Team • In addition to clinical providers of the team,
function as liaison to others involved in client’s treatment,
including, but not limited to family, employers, schools,
probation/parole, courts, etc. Miscellaneous • Will seek culturally
competent services and service providers to meet the unique
cultural needs of each agency client and family members • Assist
client with transportation as clinically indicated; Driving is an
essential function of this position • Other duties as assigned
Keywords: , Suffolk , Community Support Specialist, Social Services , Warrenton, Virginia
