Title(s) (see below): Regional Coordinator of Recovery and Inclusion Services

Version: DRAFT Job Description (8/31/06)

 

Jerry suggestion-? Recovery Consumer Affairs Coordinator

 

Introduction

 

As an established forum of the Northern Virginia Regional Planning Partnership, the Regional Recovery Workgroup has received funding to advance understanding of recovery principles and services and empower consumers and family members to participate in oversight and transformation activities. Transformation activities are designed to implement the vision of a Virginia mental health system that supports self-determination, empowerment and recovery

 

The Coordinator supports the Regional Recovery Workgroup’s projects and maximizes integration of consumers and family members into the regional mental health delivery system, including planning, oversight, innovation and full collaboration between providers and those they serve.

 

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

 

1. Advise and support the Regional Recovery Workgroup and provide leadership to transform the region to a consumer-driven, recovery-oriented health care delivery system.
2. Support the work of the Northern Virginia Regional Planning Partnership and its members in transforming the region to a consumer-driven, recovery-oriented health care delivery system.
3. Advise and serve as a resource on practices and programs that promote recovery, empowerment and self-determination.
4. Plan and implement service projects as designated by the Regional Recovery Workgroup.
5. Coordinate all service projects under the auspices of the Regional Recovery Workgroup.
6. Supervise, as appropriate, and manage staff employed by the Regional Recovery Workgroup.
7. Support consumer and family participation in planning, oversight, evaluation, and outcome measurement in order to continually improve the delivery of health care services.
8. Educate and orient consumer/survivors and family members who participate in initiatives and activities at the regional level to maximize their involvement and effectiveness.
9. Facilitate consumer and family member involvement by overseeing arrangements for transportation, family care and other accommodations needed in order to participate in regional workgroups, activities and meetings. Coordinate payments, reimbursements and stipends from the regional participation fund to facilitate consumer/survivor and family involvement.
10. Assess training and education needs, develop proposals for trainings/education venues for the Regional Recovery Workgroup and implement training activities/educational venues at the regional level to enable full implementation of recovery principles throughout the mental health delivery system.
11. Collaborate with Community Services Boards (CSBs), consumers/survivors, family members, advocacy groups, and providers on recovery activities.
12. Prepare progress reports for the Regional Recovery Workgroup and the Northern Virginia Regional Planning Partnership and other stakeholders, as appropriate.

 

 

Supervision

 

This position reports to, and takes direction from the Chair of the Regional Recovery Workgroup.

 

Qualifications for the position: SHORTEN FOR NEXT TELE-MEETING

 

- Experiential expert: personal experience as a mental health consumer or survivor. Thorough understanding of the consumer and disability community and of the strengths, abilities, realities and challenges of people with mental illnesses and other disabilities.

 

• Excellent interpersonal skills. Diplomatic and respectful, able to earn the trust and cooperation of stakeholders with diverse viewpoints and concerns, able to moderate and engage in dialog and structure meetings that are safe and inclusive for all participants
• Collaboration skills: Demonstrated ability to develop collaborative, productive relationships with diverse community stakeholders including mental health consumers/survivors, mental health providers and administrators; comfortable communicating with confidence with local and state leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, organize time and resources and plan and accomplish work with minimal supervision; ability to support and take guidance and specific direction from a governing board and keep the board well informed.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, oversee and monitor multiple human service projects; able to supervise, direct, and manage professional and support staff and contractors; ability establish budgets and monitor spending.
• Demonstrated ability Excellent communicator: skilled in verbal communication and written communication and public speaking, ability to explain new concepts in ways understandable to stakeholders including professionals, private sector, family members, individuals with disabilities.
• Training ability
• Experience in advocacy and organizing: ability to elicit views and needs from consumers and family members, ability to facilitate participation of poor and disenfranchised people in public mental health planning and oversight.
• Knowledge of the mental health consumer/survivor movement, its history, aspirations, values, including: rights, empowerment, self-direction, self-determination, recovery from mental illness, peer support; understanding of the larger disability rights movement.
• Knowledge of the public mental health system, and community mental health services especially in Virginia; understanding of evolving treatment for and rehabilitation from mental illnesses.
• Knowledge of models and practice of mental health services developed by mental health consumers/survivors and others to reduce coercion and trauma; promote personal self-care, wellness and recovery; peer support, self-determination, personal choice and self-direction, empowerment, engagement, and independence. Understanding of recent developments to introduce the techniques, goals and values into public mental health services.
• Knowledge of process of organizational change and transformation, including value and cultural changes and successful introduction and integration of new practices in mental health and human services.
• Understanding of human service outcome concepts and outcome measurement.

 

Experiential expert:

personal experience as a mental health consumer/survivor, and have an understanding of the values of recovery, self-determination or consumer self-direction, and peer support.

 

Strong advocate:

capable and having demonstrated an ability to make their voice heard in meetings with state, county, regional consumer groups, administrators, family members, and others.

 

Effective communicator:

able to communicate clearly with diverse stakeholders using various communication venues (words, written, electronic, etc.)

 

Culturally Competent:

able to communicate effectively with persons of diverse backgrounds and understand multi-cultural issues related to inclusion and recovery

 

Network builder:

able to develop collaborative relationships with diverse stakeholders (consumer/survivors, family, mental health providers and administrators, and other community stakeholders as appropriate)

 

Salary Range:

 

Benefits: included

 

Location- of office(s) To be determined.

 

Position Action Items

 

Need selection Committee-

1. LS propose at least 50% consumer/survivors. They will develop interview questions. Cover letter & resume to go to_________ Due by (3 wks after we get green light- although we start the process before fiscal agent is determined- yes?

 

Need to work out fiscal agent

 

Announcement of looking for qualified candidates (just short of a formal job announcement

1. –Kay to check on how we can move forward on this & not wait for CSB to figure out details that can be figured out/finalized later.

 

Who decides the salary?

 

Performance eval- who to write. We want measurable, clear expectations

 

Advertise position: Should be free- NEC, Clearinghouse, AAPD, Bazalon

 

RRWG Position Discussion

 

Page History

20060904 Jerry

1. Create page with cut & paste from Lauren's email
2. Page name and position title linked, so not sure how to handle that, created RRWG Position Description as a generic name. Can rename later, but everything that points to it would also need to be updated?
3. Wikifying it by:
1. creating sections of the document
2. changing indentation
3. changing numbered lists to pound signs (lets wiki code do numbering)
4. Added RRWG Position Discussion section to separate some discussion with printable draft (may be better ways like make a pdf of near final versions?)
5. Added RRWG Action Items section for separating draft from todo items...