Community Support Specialist
Company: Compass Health Network
Location: Washington
Posted on: July 7, 2025
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Job Description:
To support the continued delivery of quality and compassionate
care in our communities, we are offering a retention bonus of
$1,500.00.* Your commitment helps us meet critical service needs,
and we’re excited to have you be a part of our mission! The
Community Support Specialist provides integrated, holistic,
community-based support services. 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: Compass Health Network, Silver Spring , Community Support Specialist, Social Services , Washington, Maryland
