Qualified Behavioral Health Provider (QBHP) - Part-time

CC Hot Springs • Hot Springs, AR

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Qualified Behavioral Health Provider (QBHP) will actively participate as a member of the client’s treatment team, providing pertinent input regarding client concerns and progress. This role involves collaborating with the client's support network, including parents, teachers, probation officers, case workers, and community agencies, to enhance positive treatment outcomes. The QBHP will deliver clinical and behavioral interventions as outlined in a client’s treatment plan, under the supervision of a treating therapist, to help clients resolve or improve symptoms of mental and behavioral health disorders that impact daily functioning. Interventions can be individualized and provided in one-on-one, group, or family settings. The role also includes responding professionally to communications, assisting support staff with administrative tasks, providing transportation for clients and families as needed, attending staff meetings, and accurately documenting all interventions in an Electronic Medical Record (EMR). The QBHP must consistently perform duties in a professional and ethical manner, aligning with Methodist Family Health's mission to provide comprehensive care.

Requirements

• Must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age
• Must have a minimum of 60 hours of college education
• Must possess excellent communication and strong customer services skills
• Possess good computer skills
• Ability to document accurately and professionally.
• The QBHP must meet the definition of a Qualified Behavioral Health Provider, as outlined by Arkansas Medicaid standards and regulations, which requires the completion of a minimum of 40 hours of paraprofessional training and successful completion of all written exams and competency-based skills demonstrations.
• The QBHP must also participate in the supervision requirements outlined by the Arkansas Medicaid standards and regulations to maintain certification as a Qualified Behavioral Health Professional including weekly face-to-face supervision, monthly observations, annual continuing education and completion of exam(s).
• Must be physically capable to receive verbal and written directions
• Remains current in Crisis Prevention Intervention Training, CPR & First Aid
• Must be willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health, regardless of gender
• Must have good auditory, visual and olfactory ability
• Use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls
• Must be able to maintain effective audio, visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading and writing, and operating office equipment and other treatment equipment.
• Must be able to use a telephone to communicate verbally and a computer to communicate through written means, to review information and enter/retrieve data, to see and read characters on a computer screen, chart or other treatment items
• Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time and intermittently walk, stand, stoop, kneel, crouch and reach with hands and arms.
• Flu vaccinations are mandatory and required for all positions (subject to qualified exemptions).

Nice To Haves

• a bachelor’s degree in a Human Service field is preferred (Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Child and Youth Development, Criminal Justice, etc.)
• some experience with Microsoft Word and Excel applications preferred, but not required.
• Experience working with “at-risk” youth or other populations with special needs preferred.
• Ability as a self-motivator and the aptitude to work in a high stress fast paced position with a minimal amount of supervision.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate as a member of the client’s treatment team providing pertinent input regarding client concerns, progress, etc.
• Work collaboratively with client’s network of supports and other types of providers involved with the client to improve clients’ chances of positive outcomes in treatment (parents, teachers, probation/FINS officers, DHS case workers, ministers/youth leaders, care coordinators and other community agencies and organizations)
• Provide clinical and behavioral interventions as outlined in a client’s treatment plan and guided and supervised by the treating therapist, to assist the client in resolving or improving symptoms of mental and behavioral health disorders, that are disrupting the client’s ability to function daily physically, emotionally, socially, and/or educationally.
• Interventions must be individualized, can take place one-on-one, in a group setting with peers or with the family or with the parents/caregivers of the client.
• Respond to phone calls, contacts, and other communications from client, family members, guardians, outside agencies and referral sources in an appropriate, professional and timely manner.
• Assist support staff as needed and appropriate in securing PCP referrals, parent/guardian signatures on necessary documents, reminding clients of appointment with physicians and therapists, obtaining updated demographic information, etc.
• Provide transportation to client and family as needed and appropriate to help ensure compliance with treatment.
• Attend regular staff meetings
• Accurately document interventions and services provided in detail (both billable and nonbillable) in an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in the format and timeframes outlined in the organization and department policies and procedures.
• Check Alerts daily in the Electronical Medical Record to review and electronically sign necessary treatment documents sent to you.
• Check emails a minimum of twice a day (morning and afternoon) and respond timely.
• Consistently perform duties and represent Methodist Family Health in the most professional, ethical manner consistent with our mission to provide the best possible care to those who may need our help and to treat the whole person: behaviorally, emotionally and spiritually.

Benefits

• This training will be provided during your first two weeks of employment.
• The QBHP must also participate in the supervision requirements outlined by the Arkansas Medicaid standards and regulations to maintain certification as a Qualified Behavioral Health Professional including weekly face-to-face supervision, monthly observations, annual continuing education and completion of exam(s).
• When an employee performs two or more different jobs, for which different straight time hourly rates are established, the employee will be paid during overtime hours as a rate not less than one and one-half time the hourly rate established for the type of work, he or she is performing during the overtime hours.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree