Behavior Support Specialist

Tides Family Services, Inc.; Rhode Island; On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Tides Family Services in Rhode Island is seeking a Behavioral Assistant to deliver in-home and community strengths-based services to youth and families, focusing on targeted behavioral outcomes within specified timeframes.

You will collaborate with an integrated team of caseworkers, clinicians, and other professionals to develop treatment goals, provide resources, advocate for clients, perform routine assessments, and coordinate crisis and trauma counseling to promote safety and wellbeing.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years’ experience in human services or related nonprofit settings.
• Strong crisis management and behavior support skills.
• Ability to work with youth and families in home and community settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide in-home and community strengths-based services to clients and families.
• Collaborate with a team of caseworkers, clinicians to set goals and build relationships.
• Maintain crisis and trauma counseling services to ensure safety.
• Develop partnerships with community organizations to improve access to services.
• Ensure quality service metrics and accurate data entry.
• Attend required meetings and coordinate statewide coverage as needed.

Skills

Crisis counseling

Behavior management

Interpersonal skills

Community collaboration

Documentation & reporting

Job description

Tides Family Services is a nonprofit organization that is committed to providing comprehensive support and resources to children, adolescents, and families facing various challenges. The overall mission of Tides is to provide services and supports that allow youth to live in a community-based setting. An \"Agency Without Walls\" our services are delivered in homes, communities, schools...wherever our youth are.

Position Summary:

The Behavioral Assistant is responsible for providing in-home and community strengths-based services to clients and families, focusing on addressing behaviors with targeted outcomes within specified timeframes. They collaborate with an integrated team of caseworkers, behavioral assistants, and clinicians to develop treatment goals, provide resources, advocacy, perform routine assessments, and build relationships. Additionally, the Behavioral Assistant maintains crisis and trauma counseling services to ensure client and family safety, while also fostering collaborations with community partners to increase access to services. Flexibility to provide statewide caseworker coverage as needed is essential.

Essential Functions:

• Provide in-home and community strengths-based services to clients and families by addressing behaviors with targeted outcomes within an expected timeframe.
• Work collaboratively with integrated team of caseworkers, behavioral assistants and clinicians to develop treatment goals, provide resources, advocacy, perform routine assessments and build relationships with clients and families.
• Maintain crisis and trauma counseling and other services to help ensure client and family safety.
• Build and sustain collaborations with community partners, including health, education, vocation, legal and family intervention providers with the goal of increasing access to services for individuals and families whose needs align with our services.
• Ensure quality service metrics are met through ongoing analysis, case review, daily ECHO reporting, and accuracy of data entry into TFS ECHO platform or other reporting measures.
• Serve as liaison/advocate between the program, community, and surrounding neighbors to build partnerships.
• Support activities, services and programs that uphold NASW professional boundaries and culturally sensitive to clients and families.
• Develop case reports or communication letters or other forms of contact to truancy court or other juvenile justice systems.
• Attend and participate in all required program meetings including program coordinator meetings, biweekly supervision with leadership, run downs, and all staff meetings.
• Coordinate activities and resources that can benefit all clients and families within TFS.
• Meet client engagement productivity expectations as outlined by program or supervisor.
• Provide caseworker coverage as needed statewide.

Requirements

• Valid driver’s license and registered/inspected vehicle – Required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 2-4 years’ experience in human services, healthcare, and other non-profit agencies.
• Demonstrates a safe, strengths-based environment while continuously using everyday behavior opportunities to teach, guide, and support youth and families with their goals and challenges to remain in the home and in their communities.
• Capacity for behavior management utilizing counseling techniques, program structure, guidelines, and crisis intervention and to use metrics to ensure accountability.
• Strong crisis management, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills, particularly when working with youth of all ages.
• Managed in-home and community strengths-based services to clients and families.
• Skilled in building relationships with internal teams, stakeholders, clients and families, schools, law enforcement and other community resources.

Compensation will be determined based on the candidate’s experience, education, language capacity, skills, and other qualifications relevant to the role, in alignment with organizational parity guidelines and market conditions.The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required to satisfactorily perform essential duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Tides Family Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values our diverse workforce and encourages all mission driven candidates to apply. We are a PBN Best Place to Work recipient, a Safe Zone Certified Employer, and a Veteran Friendly Employer. Join our team!