** PRP - Therapeutic Support Specialist (Lansdowne)**

**Job Category****:** Dir Care/Couns/Client Svs **Requisition Number****:** PRPTH003454 Showing 1 location **Job Details**

**Description**

We are looking for our next **PRP - Therapeutic Support Specialist**!

**Schedule: Availability to work days, afternoons, evenings**

**PRP - Therapeutic Support Specialist Responsibilities:**

* Respect individuals rights by recognizing the dignity of each individual, encouraging their participation in problem solving and decision making and maintaining the confidentiality of all client information.

* Maintains the environment of care by complying with therapeutic standards, risk management policy, and procedures for maintaining client safety.

* Contributes to Performance Improvement at the individual, department and agency levels:

+ When working with youth, develops and implements skill-development strategies and interventions with clients to address behavioral/social/ and educational needs such as remedial educational instruction, tutoring, homework assistance, social interpersonal skills development, problem solving skills, parenting skills, self-care/life skills, therapeutic recreation, behavior management, anger management, etc., These may be accomplished through individual, or group contacts

+ When working with adults, develops and implements skill-development strategies and interventions with clients to address Independent living, Housing, Employment, Self-administration and management of medications, Mobility and transportation, Social relationships and leisure activities, Education and vocational training, Adaptive equipment or resources, and other factors that may pose a challenge to the individual's successful recovery and rehabilitation. These may be accomplished through individual, or group contacts

* Accurately applies knowledge of treatment approaches appropriate to the physical and developmental age of clients served.

* Understands and applies policies and procedures for infection control.

* Attends all required training and in-service courses as required.

**PRP - Therapeutic Support Specialist Requirements:**

* Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Psychology, or related field plus 1-2 years of work experience with youth and/or adults with serious and persistent mental illness, or AA degree in related field plus 4 years work experience.

* Must be able to move freely between locations which may or may not be accessible to individuals with physical disabilities.

* Position requires intermittent standing, sitting, walking and physically capable of lifting and moving files/supplies/equipment up to 25 lbs.

* Individual requires sufficient visual and hearing acuity to perform duties of position.

Catholic Charities offers a competitive salary and benefits program.

**Catholic Charities requires all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, which includes a process for requesting exemption.**

Join Catholic Charities of Baltimore where you will be an important member of a trauma-informed care organization that promotes a culture of safety, empowerment, healing and self-care, and that believes that every person has infinite worth and promise.

Catholic Charities is an equal opportunity employer

**Qualifications**

**Skills**

**Behaviors**

**Preferred**

**Detail Oriented****:** Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

**Team Player****:** Works well as a member of a group

**Enthusiastic****:** Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest

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**Motivations**

**Preferred**

**Self-Starter****:** Inspired to perform without outside help

**Flexibility****:** Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals

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**Education**

**Experience**

**Licenses & Certifications**