Mental Health Specialist & Program Manager

Hanna Boys Center•Sonoma, CA

5d•$75,000 - $85,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Mental Health Specialist supports Hanna Center’s Mental Health & Wellness Day Treatment Rehabilitation Program, a structured, trauma-responsive program designed to help youth and transitional-age participants reduce mental health symptoms, strengthen daily functioning, build practical coping and interpersonal skills, and remain successful in their homes, schools, and communities. The MHS plans, facilitates, and documents rehabilitative group and individual interventions within their scope of practice and under the direction of a licensed mental health professional. As part of an interdisciplinary team, the MHS helps maintain a safe and welcoming therapeutic milieu, supports individualized rehabilitation goals, and coordinates with participants, families, clinicians, schools, and community partners. The role requires availability during program hours of 3:00–7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Requirements

Experience working with youth, transitional-age youth, families, or individuals with significant behavioral health needs, specifically in a group setting.
Ability to facilitate structured groups and engage participants with differing needs, backgrounds, and levels of readiness.
Knowledge of psychosocial rehabilitation, trauma-informed care, recovery and resiliency principles, skill development, behavioral support, and community-based mental health services.
Ability to recognize and respond appropriately to safety concerns, behavioral escalation, and changes in mental status.
Strong verbal, written, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
Ability to complete timely electronic documentation and use an electronic health record.
Ability to work collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team and receive clinical direction and supervision.
Consistent availability Monday through Friday during the program window.
Meet California’s qualification standards for a Mental Health Rehabilitation Specialist through one of the stated qualification pathways: a bachelor’s degree and four years of experience in a mental health setting as a specialist in physical restoration, social adjustment, or vocational adjustment; up to two years of graduate professional education may substitute for experience year-for-year; up to two years of post-associate-degree clinical experience may substitute for required educational experience in addition to four years of mental-health-setting experience; a master’s degree and two years of full-time-equivalent experience in a mental health setting; or an associate’s degree and six years of full-time-equivalent experience in a mental health setting, at least two years of which must be post-degree.
Valid California driver’s license and ability to become insured under company policy.
Ability to complete and clear required background clearances, including California Department of Justice and FBI fingerprinting and other clearances required by Hanna Center policy.

Nice To Haves

Experience in day treatment, intensive outpatient, school-based, residential, community mental health, or other structured behavioral health programming.
Experience delivering mental health rehabilitation, skills training, targeted case management, or Medi-Cal specialty mental health services.
Training in motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical behavior therapy skills, trauma-responsive practices, de-escalation, and group facilitation.
Experience serving foster youth, justice-involved youth, transitional-age youth, and culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
Bilingual and bicultural Spanish/English skills are strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Plan and facilitate structured, developmentally appropriate rehabilitation groups focused on coping, emotional regulation, communication, social skills, problem-solving, daily functioning, and community success.
Lead program development, implementation, and compliance, including updating procedures and forms and monitoring data and outcomes.
Provide individual skills coaching and behavioral support aligned with each participant’s assessed needs, problem list, and plan of care.
Maintain a structured, trauma-responsive, culturally respectful, and emotionally and physically safe therapeutic milieu.
Follow safety, mandated reporting, confidentiality, and emergency procedures.
Complete timely and accurate individual, group, attendance, and service documentation in an electronic health record system in accordance with Hanna Center, Sonoma County Behavioral Health, and Medi-Cal requirements.
Collaborate with clinicians, supervisors, participants, families, schools, County partners, and other providers to support coordinated care and progress toward rehabilitation goals.
Participate in intake and orientation activities, case consultation, 30-day reviews, treatment and discharge planning, and step-up or step-down discussions within the scope of the role.
Prepare group curricula, materials, and program spaces; track attendance and follow-up needs; and participate in supervision, team meetings, training, and quality-improvement activities.
Perform other related duties consistent with the purpose and scope of the position.