Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services. Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:
Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization
Works autonomously and collectively as an empowered staff member of Sea Mar’s Behavioral Health
program. Participates in the development and ongoing delivery of services. This position works
exclusively with the First Episode Psychosis (FEP) team and its enrolled consumers. FEP is an evidence
based practice in the treatment of consumers through a multidisciplinary team providing
early intervention for first episode psychosis. The FEP team seeks to deliver high fidelity
clinical, rehabilitative and support services to generate the best possible outcomes for enrolled
consumers. This position is responsible for his/her own caseload, for providing the team with
consultations regarding vocational services, and for the delivery of Individual Placement and Support
(IPS) Model evidence based Supported Employment and Education (SEE) services for FEP clients.
Duties and Responsibilities
As a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based on
the belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhances
self-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry-leading, client-centered,
culturally-aware services.
Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to an
excellent client experience by:
Understanding and empathizing with client needs
Surpassing client expectations
Demonstrating a high level of integrity
Exhibiting compassion and commitment
Advocating for social justice
Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology
Job Description
As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to their
utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.
• Provide IPS Model SEE services to help clients find and maintain employment or school enrollment
in community-based and integrated settings of their choosing.
• Conduct consistent engagement of enrolled consumers on the many economic, social, medical
and recovery benefits of employment and/or education.
• Assess consumer employment and/or academic interests, abilities, preferences, barriers, likes, dislikes
and strengths through a vocational and/or educational assessment as per the IPS Model of SEE.
Continued assessment as consumers are placed in community-based jobs or school. Fully attend to
the risks and benefits of disclosure as part of the assessment as these will impact the delivery of
services. Attend to the need for benefits planning to evaluate the impact of working and wages on
consumer public benefits.
• Assess the effect(s) of the client's mental illness on employment, with Identification of specific
behaviors that interfere with the client's work performance and development of interventions to
reduce, manage or eliminate those behaviors in collaboration with other members of the FEP team.
• Develop a consumer driven, consensual and specific employment or education goal.
• Conduct community-based development based on consumer’s specific job or education goal
Develop and maintain relationships with employers…