Job: Spirituality Integration Coordinator (Hourly)

Job Description:

Post Date: October 23, 2009
Spirituality Integration Coordinator (Hrly)

All names will be removed from eligible lists one (1) year after eligibility is established.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Education: Possession of a Bachelor’s Degree from an approved college or university with a major in Psychology required. Possession of a valid Wisconsin Class “D” driver’s license at the time of application and maintained during incumbency. Possession of a Master’s Degree from an approved college or university in Divinity or Theology preferred.

Experience: Four (4) years of experience providing religious and secular services to adult individuals in the capacity of a minister, teacher, or case manager in a hospital setting required.

Knowledges, Skills, and Abilities: Knowledge of behavior theory and practices; knowledge of community resources for mental health patients; organizational skills; supervisory skills; oral and written communication skills; ability to relate with a variety of religious and secular community organizations; ability to navigate a multifloor psychiatric hospital in a safe manner; ability to work effectively and harmoniously with volunteers, clients, families, and individuals of varied professional backgrounds and diversity.

Duties: Under general direction, to be responsible for the organization, management and administration of spiritual integration for the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division (BHD); to provide leadership that develops and maintains the integration of appropriate spirituality resources and secular alternatives within the division’s treatment and recovery programming; to organize and lead activities using spiritual resources and their secular alternatives for persons with serious and persistent mental illness; to recruit, direct, train, and evaluate volunteers who work with persons with serious and persistent mental illness; to train and supervise Spiritual Beliefs and Issues Groups (SBIG) facilitators using the Dr. Nancy Kehoe model; to assist the division, programs within the division, and treatment teams in the various program areas in understanding the importance of addressing client’s spiritual issues and apply spiritual modeling techniques; to develop training materials to teach the Dr. Nancy Kehoe model to peer support specialists, mental health clinicians and volunteers; to assist in finding and developing equivalent secular alternatives to spiritual and religious activities; to provide advanced training and consultation to current facilitators of SBIG; to provide chaplaincy services; to monitor the cleanliness of the Chapel and to provide supplies; to coordinate chapel services, Bible studies and other services provided by outside volunteers; to provide religious rituals, and develop resources from the larger community for specialized spiritual needs of consumers; to promote collaborative and harmonious relations between various mental health disciplines, BHD programs and services, community organization, consumer advocacy groups, service organizations, and social service agencies; to develop resources in the large community for secular alternatives to the spiritual and religious activities offer; to be a member of and participate in BHD Ethics Committee, Acute Inpatient Program Planning Committee, Volunteer Work Group, Recovery Committee, and Spirituality Committee; to support and uphold the needs of mental health consumers regardless of religious belief systems; and all other duties as may be assigned. THE ORIGINAL EXAMINATION is open to qualified residents of Milwaukee County.

ON-LINE APPLICATION and COMPLETED ASSESSMENT, must be filed, by 11:59p.m., Friday, November 13, 2009. If you are interested in applying for any position with Milwaukee County, please submit your application and complete the assessment on-line at www.jobs.milwaukeecounty.org.

APPLICANTS MUST POSSESS MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AT TIME OF APPLICATION.

Candidates will be asked to submit a full account of their training and experience and to report for a written test, performance test and an oral interview, if deemed necessary, at a time and place to be set by the Division of Human Resources.

Effective October 1, 1988, background checks must be conducted on all individuals appointed to positions covered by Wisconsin Act 27 of the laws of 1997 and Wisconsin State statute 50.065. This requirement impacts all positions authorized in Milwaukee County Department of Human Services, Mental Health Division as well as other positions in County Service.

In accordance with the provisions of a Federal Court Order #74-C-374 issued by U.S. District Judge Myron L. Gordon, ratio hiring based on race may be used in selecting qualified employees for this classification.