Child & Adolescent Behavior Specialist

Clarvida - Georgia • Augusta, GA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Child & Adolescent Behavior Specialist, you will work with children and adolescents who are actively involved in mental health treatment. By meeting with clients and their families, you will develop a recovery plan focused on their strengths, support systems, and needs. You will provide services that consist of rehabilitative, environmental support and resources coordination considered essential to assist a youth/family in gaining access to necessary services and in creating environments that promote resiliency and support the emotional and functional growth and development of the youth. The service activities include: Assistance to the youth and family/responsible caregivers in the facilitation and coordination of the Individual Resiliency Plan (IRP) including providing skills support in the youth/family’s self-articulation of personal goals and objectives; Planning in a proactive manner to assist the youth/family in managing or preventing crisis situations; Individualized interventions, which shall have as objectives: Identification, with the youth, of strengths which may aid him/her in achieving resilience, as well as barriers that impede the development of skills necessary for age-appropriate functioning in school, with peers, and with family; Support to facilitate enhanced natural and age-appropriate supports (including support/assistance with defining what wellness means to the youth in order to assist them with resiliency-based goal setting and attainment); Assistance in the development of interpersonal, community coping and functional skills (including adaptation to home, school and healthy social environments); Encouraging the development and eventual succession of natural supports in living, learning, working, other social environments; Assistance in the acquisition of skills for the youth to self-recognize emotional triggers and to self-manage behaviors related to the youth’s identified emotional disturbance; Assistance with personal development, school performance, work performance, and functioning in social and family environment through teaching skills/strategies to ameliorate the effect of behavioral health symptoms; Assistance in enhancing social and coping skills that ameliorate life stresses resulting from the youth’s emotional disturbance; Service and resource coordination to assist the youth and family in gaining access to necessary rehabilitative, medical, social and other services and supports; Assistance to youth and other supporting natural resources with illness understanding and self-management; Any necessary monitoring and follow-up to determine if the services accessed have adequately met the youth’s needs; Identification, with the youth/family, of risk indicators related to substance use disorder relapse, and strategies to prevent relapse. This service is provided to youth in order to promote stability and build towards age-appropriate functioning in their daily environment. Stability is measured by a decreased number of hospitalizations, by decreased frequency and duration of crisis episodes and by increased and/or stable participation in school and community activities. Support based on the youth’s needs are used to promote resiliency while understanding the effects of the emotional disturbance and/or substance use disorder and to promote functioning at an age-appropriate level. Staff will serve as the primary coordinator of behavioral health services and will provide linkage to community; general entitlements; and psychiatric, substance use disorder, medical services, crisis prevention and intervention services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, or related field
• Professional and courteous communication (verbal and in writing)
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to culturally diverse populations
• Valid Georgia Driver’s License and clean Motor Vehicle Record (MVR)
• Clean Criminal Background Check (no conviction or credible evidence of abuse, neglect, or sexual exploitation-child or adult)

Nice To Haves

• Prior behavioral health experience
• Experience working with clients in a therapeutic treatment environment

Responsibilities

• Develop a recovery plan focused on strengths, support systems, and needs for children and adolescents in mental health treatment.
• Provide rehabilitative and environmental support services.
• Coordinate resources to help youth/families access necessary services.
• Create environments that promote resiliency and support emotional and functional growth.
• Facilitate and coordinate the Individual Resiliency Plan (IRP), including skills support for goal articulation.
• Proactively plan to assist youth/families in managing or preventing crisis situations.
• Conduct individualized interventions to identify strengths and barriers to resilience and age-appropriate functioning.
• Support the facilitation of enhanced natural and age-appropriate supports.
• Assist in the development of interpersonal, community coping, and functional skills.
• Encourage the development and succession of natural supports in various environments.
• Assist youth in acquiring skills to self-recognize emotional triggers and self-manage behaviors.
• Provide assistance with personal development, school performance, work performance, and social/family functioning.
• Enhance social and coping skills to ameliorate life stresses.
• Coordinate services and resources to ensure access to necessary supports.
• Assist youth and natural supports with illness understanding and self-management.
• Monitor and follow up on accessed services to ensure needs are met.
• Identify risk indicators related to substance use disorder relapse and develop prevention strategies.
• Promote stability and age-appropriate functioning in daily environments.
• Serve as the primary coordinator of behavioral health services.
• Provide linkage to community, general entitlements, psychiatric, substance use disorder, medical services, and crisis prevention/intervention services.

Benefits

• Paid vacation days that increase with tenure
• Separate sick leave that rolls over each year
• Up to 10 Paid holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefit plan options
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health, Dependent and Transportation Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee, Spouse and Dependent Basic and Optional Life Insurance
• 401 K Plan
• Mileage & Cell Phone Reimbursement (or company phone)
• Pet Insurance
• DailyPay- daily access to your earnings without waiting for payday!
• SoFi at Work student loan refinancing
• Next Steps Financial Wellness program webinars and tools
• Company laptop and great IT support
• Verizon discount
• Dell discount
• Perks at Pathways national discounts on travel, shopping, and entertainment
• Training, Development and Continuing Education Credits for licensure requirements
• Opportunities for advancement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level