Family Specialist I

Pacific Clinics; San Bernardino (CA); On-site; USD 31,684 - 37,195; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Clinics in California seeks a dedicated clinician to work with youth and families in community and home settings. Within a team, you develop strength-based relationships, intervene with maladaptive behaviors, link to resources, and help transfer skills to caregivers to create permanent family connections.

You will search for family members, support transitions to lower levels of care, work independently in diverse settings, and document promptly to MediCal standards while meeting

Qualifications

• Must have direct behavioral support experience with mental health, developmental, or behavioral challenges.
• Experience implementing behavior intervention plans for clients with complex needs.
• Education to at least a high school diploma or GED is required.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct services to youth and families.
• Documents in alignment with MediCal regulations and meets productivity expectations.
• Builds alignment and relationships with parents, youth and others in the family context.
• Utilizes strengths of youth and families to support goals and outcomes.
• Works with youth and family teams to support family-driven planning and interventions.
• Observes target behavior, tracks progress, and adjusts plans with the family.

Skills

Direct behavioral support

Behavior intervention plans

Mental health support

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Compensation We Offer

• The initial compensation for this position ranges from $23.00 - $27.39 per hour; depending on experience, location, and internal equity considerations
• 8% License Differential for LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, PsyD. and select Peer Certifications**
• 7.5% Bilingual Differential for qualified positions**
• $2,000 Hiring Incentive **

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

Job Summary

Within a team process, develops a strength based relationship with youth and caregivers. Intervenes with maladaptive behaviors while developing the youth's strengths and interests. Responsible for linking to community resources, and transferring skill sets to the caregiver. 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.