Outreach Specialist-VDAT-OS12

Damascus, VA 24236

Posted: 01/17/2025 Employment Type: Temp Industry: General Office Job Number: 32030

Job Description


OUTREACH SPECIALIST 

Job Duties:
  • Participate in outreach strategies to identify and serve affected individuals, groups, and the community
  • Provide emotional support, to include assistance with identifying coping skills and stress management techniques  
  • Provide educational information and resources
  • Assist with development and implementation of psycho-educational and/or support groups
  • Assess, refer, and link individuals or families to additional disaster relief services including behavioral health services as needed
  • Participate in activities to build positive relationships with community resource organizations, faith-based groups and other local agencies
  • Assist with distributing educational material to disaster affected areas 
  • Attend scheduled meetings with team


Skills: 

Able to complete tasks independently and will seek supervision when needed 
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills
  • Previous experience in providing disaster behavioral health and/or crisis responses to survivors and victims of major traumatic and catastrophic events
  • Demonstrated ability to adapt to rapidly changing environments inherent to disaster response
  • Demonstrated capability to provide active listening and supportive feedback to those impacted by disaster
  • Demonstrated familiarity with similar community support agencies to provide clinical and resource referrals as necessary




Status: Part time, non-exempt, (Flexible schedule). 

Location: Community-Based.  

Education:  High School Diploma.   While a behavioral healthcare professional license is not required, individual must demonstrate a general understanding of the basic tenants of disaster behavior health and crisis interventions and techniques.



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