Youth & Family Support Specialist I

Pacific Clinics; Arrowhead (CA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hiring incentive $2,000 after 30 days

7.5% bilingual differential

Job summary

Pacific Clinics in California is seeking an individual to provide direct behavioral health services to youth and families in home and community settings.

The role supports linking to community resources, developing strength-based plans, and coordinating with caregivers, with emphasis on safety and trauma-informed care.

Requires a High School diploma and experience; CPI/PCM certification preferred; full-time position with benefits.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED and one or more years of relevant experience.
• Providing direct behavioral support to individuals with mental health, developmental, or behavioral challenges.
• Experience implementing behavior intervention plans and supporting clients with complex behavioral needs.
• Certification in CPI, PCM, or other crisis intervention models or willingness to obtain.

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.

Skills

Behavioral support

Independent worker

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Pacific Clinics in California is seeking an individual to provide direct behavioral health services to youth and families in home and community settings.

The role supports linking to community resources, developing strength-based plans, and coordinating with caregivers, with emphasis on safety and trauma-informed care.

Requires a High School diploma and experience; CPI/PCM certification preferred; full-time position with benefits.