Community Support Specialist

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61401-9791, Galesburg, IL, USA
In-Office
19-27 Hourly
Junior
Logistics • Transportation • 3PL: Third Party Logistics
The Role
Provides person-centered community support and case coordination for individuals with intellectual disabilities or mental illness. Responsibilities include assessing needs, developing and implementing support plans, teaching life and self-advocacy skills, providing counseling and advocacy, coordinating community services and benefits, identifying housing options, and building family and natural supports.
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Come Join Bridgeway...make a difference in someone's life!

The Community Support Specialist provides community support and case coordination services for a caseload of individuals with disabilities/intellectual disabilities or individuals with mental illness. The Community Support Specialists works with the people we serve using a true person center approached in order to foster relationships between individuals and their communities.

To learn more about this position, please read the summarized list of duties below:

-Assess consumer's overall functioning, identifying problems, needs, skill strengths and deficits, and assume a lead role in the consumer centered planning process developing implementation strategies. 
-Implement selected aspects of the plan including skill building, counseling, advocacy, and building community, family, and natural supports.
-Ensure linkages to community service providers, entitlement programs and housing alternatives.
-Advocate for individual's basic need, development of natural resources, and personal independence through teaching self-advocacy skills.

Minimum requirements include a Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university in the human services field and at least one year of direct care experience working with persons with disabilities. Must be able to achieve Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional (QIDP) status to work with persons with developmental disabilities. Must have Mental Health Professional (MHP) status to work with persons with mental illness. Must have reliable transportation, valid driver's license, proof of insurance, and meet company insurability standards by having a good driving record. Employment with Bridgeway is conditional upon completion of all background checks.

Bridgeway is an Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the objective of Bridgeway to make Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) a reality for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, race, religion, marital status, physical or mental disability or unfavorable discharge from military services and to prevent sexual harassment in employment.
 

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university in a human services field
  • At least one year of direct care experience working with persons with disabilities
  • Ability to achieve Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional status
  • Mental Health Professional status
  • Reliable transportation
  • Valid driver's license
  • Proof of insurance
  • Good driving record and compliance with company insurability standards
  • Successful completion of all background checks
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The Company
350 Employees

What We Do

Bridgeway is one of the country's largest specialty transportation and logistics providers, solving the toughest transport problems for critical industries including energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing. Leveraging a network of over 100,000 carriers and handling over 500,000 loads annually, Bridgeway provides a purpose-built platform of people, assets, and technology to move specialty freight vital to the national economy.

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