Family Specialist I

Pacific Clinics; Concord (CA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 39,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Day-one benefits

Medical/dental/vision package

401K match up to 4%

Generous PTO

Job summary

Pacific Clinics seeks a part-time clinician to provide direct behavioral health services to youth and families. You will link families to community resources, transfer skills to caregivers, and help children connect to appropriate care levels in home and community settings.

This role emphasizes strength-based approaches, collaboration with families, and ongoing documentation to Medi-Cal standards while supporting diverse communities in California.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED and one year or more of relevant experience are required.
• Experience delivering direct behavioral support to individuals with mental health, developmental, or behavioral needs.
• Familiarity with trauma-informed care, positive behavioral support, and data collection.
• Certification in CPI, PCM, or other crisis intervention models or willingness to obtain.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct services to youth and families.
• Documents direct billable mental health services aligning with MediCal regulations.
• Builds alignment and relationships with parents, youth and others.
• Uses youth and family strengths to support goals and outcomes.
• Works with teams to support family-driven, strength-based planning.
• Navigates crisis situations with therapeutic opportunities.
• Observes target behaviors, tracks progress, and modifies plans.
• Hypothesizes function and unmet needs to tailor interventions.
• Engages caregiver and family members to support positive behavior changes.
• Works in community settings to implement safety and skill plans.
• Connects families to community resources for ongoing support.
• Develops local resources to serve children and families.
• Meets service and documentation expectations consistently.
• Participates in family finding activities and creates connectedness maps.
• Performs other duties to support department needs.

Skills

Conflict Resolution

Documents clearly and accurately

Encouraging customer focus

Learning on the fly

Time management

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Overview

Schedule: Monday to Friday, from 8am to 5pm. (Part-time) 6-8 hour shifts totaling 36 hours a week.

Compensation We Offer

• The initial compensation for this position ranges from $23 to $28.23 Per Hour, depending on experience, location and internal equity considerations

Possible Additional Compensation (may vary based on position eligibility)

• Possible Bilingual Differentials: Up to 7.5% for qualifying direct-service roles; up to $80.00/month flat fee for qualifying non-direct service roles.

Benefits We Offer

• Benefits Eligibility starts on day ONE
• We provide a robust benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision,
• 401K Employer Match up to 4%
• Competitive Time Off Plans

Must meet eligibility requirements based on employment status

Pay Range

$23 - $28.23

Job Summary

Within a team process, develops a strength based relationship with youth and care givers. Intervenes with maladaptive behaviors while developing the youth's strengths and interests. Responsible for linking to community resources, and transferring skill sets to the care giver. Helps to create permanent connections for youth and families. May search, locate and engage family members for youth. Assists with transitioning kids to the lowest level of care. Works independently in the family's home and in a variety of community and/or treatment settings.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct services to youth and families.
• Provides direct billable mental health services, documents in alignment with MediCal regulations and achieves set productivity expectations.
• Manages and builds alignment and relationships with parents, youth, and others in the normal course of working with the families.
• Utilizes strengths of youth, families, and others to assist in the implementation and achievement of goals and outcomes.
• Works with youth and family teams to support family driven, strength based planning and interventions.
• Understands and take advantage of therapeutic opportunities in crisis situations.
• Conducts observations regarding specific target behavior, track progress and modify plans with the family to support their intended identified outcome.
• Assists teams in developing a hypothesis of function and underlying unmet need in an effort to develop individualized, strength based strategies and interventions that will result in positive behavior change.
• Engages caregiver, family members and other natural supports in building youth specific parenting responses that support positive behavior change and overall family relationships.
• Works in the community directly with youth and families to develop and implement safety and skill refinement plans.
• Supports families in bridging to and or building on natural resources and accessing community based program supports that will continue support over time.
• Develops resources within the community to serve children and families.
• Assists youth and family teams to meet specific service needs (ie help develop strategy or resource specific to an identified need) and monitor outcomes.
• Participates in family finding team activities by identifying family finding need, obtaining authorizations, creating teams, conducting searches and setting deadlines. Completes Connectedness Maps as needed.
• Documents interactions and practices and maintain administrative expectations in a timely manner.
• Meets and or exceeds all direct service expectations and documentation requirements.
• Assists in developing program responses to needs identified across a number of youth and families where natural community resources are not available or appropriate.
• Builds on individual strengths, concerns, and needs with balanced focus on the family as a unit.
• Facilitates and/or co-facilitate, support, and model participation in healthy group dynamics within various settings including family homes, schools, parks and recreation centers, and treatment facilities; and provides an open forum for expression of feelings and ideas when appropriate.
• Builds solid, cooperative, culturally responsive relationships with youth and families as well as community resources to assist with the planning, organizing, implementation and evaluation of appropriate activities to achieve family identified goals.
• Performs other responsibilities, as assigned, to support department/business needs.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

• High School Diploma or GED and one (1) or more years of relevant experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience (two years of relevant experience equals one year of education) to include:
• Providing direct behavioral support to individuals with mental health, developmental, or behavioral challenges.
• Demonstrated experience implementing behavior intervention plans and supporting clients with complex behavioral needs.
• Familiarity with trauma-informed care, positive behavioral support, and data collection for behavioral outcomes.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in school-based, residential, or community mental health settings.
• Certification in CPI, PCM, or other crisis intervention models or willingness to obtain.

Job Competencies

• Conflict Resolution
• Documents clearly and accurately
• Encouraging customer focus
• Learning on the fly
• Time management

Physical Requirements

Must remain physically fit enough to keep children and self-safe. While performing these duties the employee is required to perform the following physical tasks when the need arises: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Driving Required May have unsupervised contact with children. Requires full background check and TB Exam. We are Equal Opportunity Employer, which includes providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with a disability.We will consider for employment, qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with ordinance 184652 Sec.189.04 (a) and San Francisco Police Code, Article 49. Section 4905.