Behavior Support Specialist Supervisor

TIDES FAMILY SERVICES INC•Pawtucket, RI

40d•$52,000 - $61,000

About The Position

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 Behavior Support Specialist Supervisor plays a crucial role in leading an integrated team of behavioral assistants within a model of care aimed at providing comprehensive support to clients and families. This position involves developing, reviewing, and evaluating treatment goals, conducting routine assessments, crisis, and trauma counseling, and ensuring safety while building strong relationships with clients and families.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree – Required.
Valid driver’s license and registered/inspected vehicle – Required.
Management experience with a minimum of 4-6 years’ experience in human services, healthcare and other non-profit agencies.
A demonstrated solid track record of innovative clinical leadership driving and supervising trauma informed service delivery to teach, guide, and support youth and families with their goals and challenges to remain in the home and in their communities.
Capacity to lead clinical excellence and behavior-based management utilizing counseling techniques, program structure, guidelines, crisis intervention aligned w/said metrics.
Strong crisis management, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills, particularly when working with youth of all ages.
Managed home and community strengths-based services to clients and families.
Skilled in building relationships with internal teams, stakeholders, clients and families, schools, law enforcement, court systems and other community resources.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual; Spanish, Portuguese, Creole – Preferred

Responsibilities

Leads an integrated team of Behavior Support Specialists within model of care to develop, review and evaluate treatment goals, provide resources, advocacy, perform routine assessment, crisis and trauma counseling, safety and build relationships with clients and families.
Develop a comprehensive treatment plan based on intake assessment.
Build and sustain collaborations with community partners, including health, education, vocation, legal and family intervention providers with the goal of increasing access to services.
Ensure quality service/case metrics are met through ongoing analysis, case review, daily ECHO reporting, and accuracy of data entry into TFS ECHO platform or other reporting measures.
Review audits, CQI reports, and patterns of practice and makes recommendations to correct problems identified including chart reviews for the purpose of coding services.
Ensure in-home and community strengths-based supervision to clients and families with targeted outcomes within an expected timeframe.
Serve as liaison/advocate between the program, community, and surrounding neighbors to build partnerships.
Develop and train team to ensure growth, expanded skillset and scope of practice to ensure quality service metrics are met.
Manage program budget aligned to contract requirements to ensure fiscal responsibility and viability of TFS program.
Support activities, services and programs that uphold NASW Code of Ethics.
Meet client engagement productivity expectations as outlined by program or supervisor.
Lead daily program meetings, biweekly supervision with leadership, and all staff meetings.