Overview

At Beech Acres Parenting Center, we uncover the natural gifts of children by unleashing the power of parents and caregivers. As a contemporary parenting center, Beech Acres serves over 30,000 people annually through a wide range of services including foster care, kinship care, adoption, behavioral health support in schools, parent coaching and much more. All of our programs are founded in our Natural Strength Parenting™ framework which enables parents to unlock their own potential by building on their unique strengths. For more information, visit www.beechacres.org

We're a spirited team that believes in having fun and making an impact in our community and beyond. Beech Acres offers competitive salaries, generous paid time off, and a comprehensive training program to support you in your journey. We’ve built a culture that values each employees unique strengths and is welcoming and inclusive for all. We’ve recently implemented an exciting new strategic vision for the organization that will guide us through the next three years and beyond. Come be part of positive change happening in schools, pediatric offices, workplaces, the community, and the world.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The Beyond the Classroom team at Beech Acres Parenting Center ("The Beech" as we like to call it!) is seeking a Team Lead to provide day-to-day oversight and leadership of Beyond the Classroom functions within the Kings Local School District. This role serves as a liaison between the school and Beech Acres Parenting Center (BAPC) to ensure the collaborative service delivery and support for children, parents and families.

• Serves as the leader for school based team, regularly analyzes, and is accountable for team performance of goals and overall performance to goals (both school, client, and agency related goals).
• Coordinates BAPC BtC staff assigned to the school/district.
• Ensures school based service delivery aligns with the vision and mission of BtC and BAPC.
• Provides oversight and coordination of service connection and delivery for families to ensure continuity of care. Consistently engages families in a welcoming and inclusive manner to build ongoing involvement.
• Supports the day-to-day relationship with key school partners and utilizes best-in-class customer service delivery to ensure customer needs are met. Escalates customer concerns VP as needed.
• Leads team huddles to facilitate coordination and management of common caseloads.
• Provides needs assessments as appropriate in schools served. Connects parents, children and families to resources, internal to BAPC or external, based on what has been discovered during the needs assessment process.
• Ensures any referral connections are made successfully, removes barriers to scheduling, and provides routine check-ins and family outreach to identify progress and any additional needs.
• Consistently meets and/or exceeds targets for completion of assessments to initiate first parent contact and drive involvement in services.
• Serves as first point of contact for triage of non-clinical issues within school, with parents, school administrators, etc.
• As appropriate, provides coordination and leadership of school events, programming, etc. to encourage family involvement and outreach.
• In schools where Beech Acres prevention work is present: provides support in TCE led school events, programming, etc. to encourage family involvement and outreach.
• Attends and engages in school administration meetings (and other meetings, as appropriate), participates and supports to school efforts and initiatives, and provides training for school staff on relevant topics.
• Assists students in crisis support services, as needed.
• Ensures that mandatory reporting procedures are maintained.
• Coordinates and develops communication materials that meet the needs of school, parents and families.
• Works in close collaboration with BtC managers and supervisors to manage relationships with school administration and key leaders.
• May facilitate team or organizational professional development, based on areas of subject matter expertise.
• Maintains compliance with all company policies and procedures.
• This role is school based in nature and may require work outside of standard business hours to support family events, school events, etc. Travel to BAPC campuses and within the community is required.
• When there is a program, school or district need for the Team Lead to provide clinical supervision, in addition to functional supervision, all state, accreditation and Clinical Best Practice compliance standards will be met.

Qualifications

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree is strongly preferred, preferably in a Social Services/Human Services area of study Minimum of 3-5 years of experience meeting the needs of kids and/or families. 7-10 years of experience in mental health services, education services, or related human services for kids and/or families may be substituted in lieu of degree requirement. 
• Master’s Degree and LISW or LPCC required only if clinical supervision is included in school/district placement.
• Previous experience in a supervisory or team lead role is preferred.
• Knowledge of mental health, community resources engagement and/or population health is preferred.
• Previous experience in a school-based services setting is preferred.
• Previous experience with quality improvement or continuous improvement methodology is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
• Outstanding ability to build and foster trusting relationships. Strong networker with the ability to engage diverse audiences and meet families where they are.
• Excellent computer proficiency (MS Office – Word, Excel and Outlook)
• Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service.
• Ability to work collaboratively and to engage and motivate teams towards achievement of goals and targets.

Beech Acres is an Equal Opportunity Employer

BAPC provides equal employment opportunities (“EEO”) to all persons, consistent with applicable federal, state and local equal employment opportunity laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, religion, ancestry, military or veteran status, color, national origin, or any other applicable statutorily protected group status under local, state, or federal law. This applies to all phases of the employment relationship including recruitment, hiring, compensation, advancement, and discipline.