Native Services Provider-Oregon State Hospital

* Meet with patients to identify spiritual and cultural needs to determine the appropriate path of intervention in consultation with the patient’s treatment team.
* Work with patients to grow spiritually in their cultural and spiritual practice through
** Indigenous arts and crafts, smudge ceremonies, sweat lodge sessions, individual and group counseling to include "Talking Circles", and accompany patients on outings
** with OSH staff.
* Gain and apply knowledge of institutional, spiritual, cultural, and native practices with special focus on how these practices help people to develop spiritually and foster healthy attitudes, values, beliefs, cognitions, associates, and family/community relationships both in the hospital and upon release in the community.
* Help patients to maintain positive contacts and involvement with their families and help patients access their family members in a safe, secure, and positive manner.
* Schedule appointment-based counseling services to referred patients for native services.
* Consult with treatment teams regarding patient beliefs and customs.
* Document progress and group notes of all services.
* Enhances teamwork within native services across OSH and in interdisciplinary endeavors and teams.
* Uses forms of communication and interaction with staff across all OSH that enhance positive relationships and a sense of teamwork/community.
* Develops and implements an effective and efficient program of spiritual services, music, educational material, equipment, and sacred spaces for all native services groups and practices that will meet the spiritual needs of patients.
* Creates, maintains, and improves the use of a management information system of records, scheduling, and services that aids in developing an effective and efficient cultural and spiritual program.
* Continually works to improve the efficiency and quality of our systems for working with our colleagues across divisions in the department, and for delivering the native spiritual program.
* Assists with review and provides input for local, state, and federal rules effected by, or effecting, the policies, and procedures of native spiritual program.
* Experience providing services in the community specific to the practice of native services.
* Experience facilitating native services to include, but not limited to; sweat lodge ceremonies, talking circles, smudge ceremonies, and indigenous arts & crafts.
* Training or education from a native elder focused on ethical practices in providing native services and serving others.
* Education through an institution focused on ethical practices in providing native services.
* Experience working with a tribe(s) and tribal leadership.
* Experience working with individuals experiencing severe or persistent mental illness or individuals who have received services within a secure environment.
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* This announcement is for
** 3
* * vacancies, time type: full-time, permanent, SEIU represented,
** Native Services Provider*
* ** SR 24
** position based in Salem, Oregon.
* This is an
** On Campus
** position.
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