Behavioral Health Specialist

Description

Job Description:

The Behavioral Health Specialist (BHS) provides intensive, individualized, and strength based, needs-driven intervention activities that support the engagement and participation of the client and significant support persons and to help the client develop skills and achieve the goals and objectives of the plan. BHS services are not traditional therapeutic services.

Providing behavioral services may include, but not limited to, assistance in improving, maintaining or restoring a client’s or group of client’s functional skills; daily living skills; social and leisure skills; grooming and personal hygiene skills; obtaining support resources; and/or obtaining medication education. Services will be provided under any of AGH’s programs which include Foster Care, Intensive Services Foster Care, Therapeutic Foster Care or Mental Health Counseling. BHS will be trained to provide services under each treatment level and billing source.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining a constructive and collaborative relationship among a client, their family or caregiver(s), other providers, and other involved child-serving systems to create a CFT;
• Care planning and monitoring to ensure that the plan is aligned and coordinated across the mental health and child serving systems to allow the client to be served in their community in the least restrictive setting possible;
• Ensuring services are provided that equip the parent/caregiver(s) to meet the client’s mental health treatment and care coordination needs, described in the client’s plan;
• Ensuring that medically necessary mental health services included in the client’s plan are effectively and comprehensively assessed, coordinated, delivered, transitioned and/or reassessed as necessary in a way that is consistent with the full intent of the Core Practice Model;
• Providing active coordination of services and resources as required to meet the goals of the plan;
• Providing active participation in the CFT planning and monitoring process to assure that the plan addresses or is refined to meet the mental health needs of the client:
• Will participate in ongoing education requirements of 24 hours per year.
  
  

Salary

• $22.50-$23.87 Hourly
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or other related fields.
• Bilingual/Spanish preferred.
• Two years experience working in a Mental Health Setting, residential care or Wrap Around Program.
• Maintain a welcoming environment for families and other community partners.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA privacy practices.
• Adhere to our attendance and punctuality policy.
• Must pass and remain current in CPR/First Aid.
• Must be able to effectively utilize computers and basic computer software.
• Must be available to work nights, weekends and some holidays as needed.
• Must meet Community Care Licensing and insurance requirements.
• Must have a valid California Driver’s License and a good driving record. Must be at least 18 years old with at least 2 years of driving experience.
• A Greater Hope includes all employees in the DMV pull notification process, notifying AGH of infractions throughout the process.
• All Employees are required to report all arrests within 48 hours of arrest as per Community Care Licensing requirements.
• Must pass a drug screen, physical exam, and Tuberculosis skin test.
• Be able to obtain Criminal and Child Abuse Clearance from the State of California/Department of Justice.
• A Greater Hope participates in E-Verify and will verify your Social Security Number.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, strong conflict resolution, communication and organizational skills; with great attention to detail.
• Foster Family Agency experience preferred.