Position Summary:

• Provides transportation and direct care responsibilities for consumers/patients as assigned.
• Engages consumer/patient in appropriate treatment intervention based on service plan and supervisory directions.
• Interacts and communicates with consumer/patient in therapeutic manner.
• Assists with consumer admission, transfer, and discharge procedures.

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Associate's Degree and two (2) years of experience in the provision of appropriate services in the behavioral health field or Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Psychology or a related field; or a high school diploma and five (5) years experience in the provision of appropriate services within behavioral health.

City: Plainfield

State: NJ

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Must be able to lift up to seventy (70) pounds multiple times a day.
• Requires bending, lifting, sitting.
• Some travel to client homes and community agencies.

• Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic).
• Subject to unpredictable situations, patient crisis, medical, substance use related and psychiatric.
• Exposure to bloodborne pathogens that require use of personal protective equipment.

Posting Number: 26ST0047

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