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<div>Position: Rehabilitation Counselor
Program: Primetime House
Location: Torrington
Salary: $20.00/hour
Schedule: Full time; 40 hours; 1st shift, Monday-Friday with flexibility for evening &amp; weekend social rehab events.
Program Summary:
Prime Time House&rsquo;s Clubhouse helps its members to attain employment, education, life skills, and overall, a better quality of life. Prime Time House is a non-traditional mental health program that utilizes work as its intervention in helping its members reach their goals and re-integrate into the community. Program staff help members set and achieve personal goals, emphasize members' strengths and abilities, and ensure that each member has access to quality mental health care by connecting them to community providers for medication management, individual counseling, outpatient treatment options, vocational, and educational services.
Position Summary:
Interested candidates should possess an understanding of serious mental illness, have a passion for excellence, a positive attitude, and enjoy multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment. Candidates are culturally and trauma responsive, gender affirming, recovery oriented, person centered, situationally aware, open minded, have excellent communication skills, a sense of humor, are growth oriented, solution focused and patient. A valid driver&rsquo;s license is required, and the candidate will need to complete agency driving training to provide transportation to participants in an agency van. Candidate must be comfortable preparing lunch in a commercial kitchen, while engaging members in the process. Excellent communication skills, and comfort working with technology, including MS Office and Electronic Health Record and also comfortable learning new technology and programs.
Requirements:<ul><li>
Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in psychology, Social Work or related field is preferred</li><li>
Related experience working with individuals with serious and persistent mental illness</li><li>
Valid Driver&rsquo;s License</li></ul>
Orientation:
If selected for employment with The Connection, newly hired employees will be required to attend a two (2) day mandatory New Hire Orientation at our Roscommon office located in Middletown.
Benefits:<ul><li>
Medical, dental, vision benefits are offered along with other additional voluntary coverages with full time employment</li><li>
403(b) retirement plan with employer matching contribution</li><li>
Company paid short and long term disability and life insurance with full time employment</li><li>
Paid time off (vacation, personal and sick) with full time employment</li><li>
12 paid holidays
</li></ul>The Connection is a statewide human services and community development agency that provides unique solutions to the problems of homelessness, mental illness, substance use, improving child welfare and community justice rehabilitation. For additional information, visit www.theconnectioninc.org.</div>

Rehabilitation Counselor - Primetime House (Torrington)

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Rehabilitation Counselor - Primetime House (Torrington)