Direct Care Specialist
Agency Name: Integrated Services of Kalamazoo
Agency Contact: Andrea Bedard
- Position Type: Part Time
- Job Type: Permanent
- County: Kalamazoo
- Salary Range: 13.76 per Hour
- Send applications to: www.iskzoo.org/careers
- Please include your resume when applying.
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Do you have a passion for assisting individuals in their transition from homelessness to services and housing? Would you like to be a valuable member of a diversity driven, mission-minded team that impacts our community? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to work as a contingent (weekends and holidays) Direct Care Specialist!
What You Will Be Doing
Working contingent as a Direct Care Specialist you will be responsible for the delivery of appropriate services/supports to individuals with co-occurring, severe, and persistent mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders. The successful candidate will provide skill building/community living support activities and manage group activities such as cooking, cleaning, and conflict resolution in a challenging short-term residential environment to transition individuals served from homelessness to housing.