Behavioral Aide (Sumter, SC & surrounding areas)

CTSHealth•Columbia, SC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

A Behavioral Aide provides one-on-one behavioral interventions with children, youth, and/or adults receiving specialty mental health services in the client's home/residential placement/school or during community outings. This role performs related work as assigned under supervision. Responsibilities include participating in person-centered planning, providing direct home-based behavioral health services and supports (including therapy for the family), assisting the team leader in monitoring intervention effectiveness, and consulting with non-medical providers and community supports. The role also ensures confidentiality, compliance with regulations, participation in multi-disciplinary staffing, and continuous learning. Maintaining client medical records and personnel files, conducting outreach, performing assessments, and upholding ethical standards are key duties. The Behavioral Aide must exemplify professional conduct, maintain cooperative relationships, and support facility policies. Demonstrating tact, courtesy, and a positive approach in interactions is essential. Personal development for current knowledge in the profession, maintaining a safe and drug-free environment, and willingness to travel for continuing education are also required. Service notations must meet agency, Medicaid, and auditing agency standards for timeliness, quality, and completeness, including purpose of contact, interventions, effectiveness, time spent, and signature. The position requires availability for on-call rotation (24/7/365) as a first responder and flexibility to respond to client needs and crisis situations beyond normal working hours. Services are delivered in various environments such as homes, schools, jails (for state funds only), and homeless shelters.

Requirements

Human service field with less than one year of full-time, post-graduate degree accumulated MH/DD/SA experience with the population served, or a substance abuse professional with less than one year of full-time, post-graduate degree accumulated supervised experience in alcoholism and drug abuse counseling. Supervision shall be provided by a qualified professional with the population served until the individual meets one year of experience.
Graduate of a college or university with a bachelor's degree in a human service field with less than two years of full-time, post-bachelor's degree accumulated MH/DD/SA experience with the population served, or a substance abuse professional with less than two years of full-time, post-bachelor's degree accumulated supervised experience in alcoholism and drug abuse counseling. Supervision shall be provided by a qualified professional with the population served until the individual meets two years of experience.
Graduate of a college or university with a bachelor's degree in a field other than human services with less than four years of full-time, post-bachelor's degree accumulated MH/DD/SA experience with the population served, or a substance abuse professional with less than four years of full-time, post-bachelor's degree accumulated supervised experience in alcoholism and drug abuse counseling.
One-year documented experience in the delivery of mental health treatment to children and /or adolescents.

Responsibilities

Participating in the person-centered planning process
Providing direct home-based behavioral health services and supports, including therapy for the family.
Providing direct services for the family as indicated in the Person-Centered Plan.
Assisting the team leader in monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions as evidenced by symptom reduction and progress toward goals.
Assisting the team leader with consulting identified non-medical providers, engaging community and natural supports and including their input in the person-center/ed planning process.
Ensure that all information obtained while at Carolina Therapeutic Services is kept confidential and will remain confidential beyond employment.
Ensure confidentiality training is updated.
Responsible to ensure that services are provided in a manner, which meets all applicable regulatory licensure and accrediting regulations.
Participate in multi-disciplinary staffing.
Attends all appropriate in-services, workshops, or continuing education programs.
Responsible for keeping client medical record charts and their own personnel file information up to date in a timely manner.
Work to ensure mental health outreach, education, and prevention in the community.
Responsible for appropriate intake, assessments, and orientation.
Maintains strict confidentiality according to all Federal and State guidelines and requirements.
Exemplifies personal and professional conduct.
Upholds the Professional Code of Ethics.
Maintains a cooperative relationship with employees, medical staff and others.
Adheres to and supports facility policies, programs and activities.
Demonstrates tact, courtesy, and a positive approach to communication and interaction with Other employees, visitors, physicians, etc.
Responsible for personal development to ensure current knowledge in the profession.
Responsible for maintaining a safe, clean and drug free environment.
Willingness to work beyond what is required periodically and travel for continuing education hours.
Maintain service notation that meets agency notation standards, Medicaid standards, and/or any other auditing agency such as the LME. (For timeliness, quality, and completeness). This notation must include: I) the purpose of contact; 2) describes the provider's interventions; 3) effectiveness of the intervention; 4) the time spent performing the intervention; and 5) signature (degree/credentials or position) of person providing service.
Must be available in the on-call rotation for 24/7- 365 days per year first responder coverage.
Must maintain the flexibility to respond to client needs and crisis Situations beyond the agencies normal working hours.
Deliver services in various environments, such as homes, schools, jails (for state funds only), homeless shelters, etc.
Perform any other job-related duties as specified by a supervisor