Georgia Families in Transition is looking for individuals to join our community-based mental health team!

The Paraprofessioanl position is focused on providing individual/family mental health services and skills training using evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches of care for children, adolescents, and adults. GFIT strives toward a company culture based in collaboration, teamwork, honesty, and promotion of self-care and is looking for members of our mental health team who share this vision.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Providing individual/family mental health education using evidence based and trauma informed approaches of care.
• Timely documentation submission through use of company-provided note transcription service.
• Commitment to providing consistent, ongoing services to clients.
• Provide crisis intervention as necessary to enhance and restore functioning.
• Participate in coordination of care with a multi-disciplinary treatment team
• Meet or exceed agency required productivity and documentation standards
• Travel is required for in-person sessions with clients
• Other duties as assigned

Core Competencies

• Interpersonal Skills & Communication: demonstrated emotional intelligence with an ability to balance an empathy forward response with families and throughout the organization. Enjoys working closely with other people to understand their concerns and seeks out the ways our workplace might address them. Able to use storytelling to advance a concept or idea.
• Professionalism: Confidence, articulation, ability to receive criticism and feedback well, ability to resolve conflicts.
• Organization & Time Management: Organizes work, effectively prioritizes, and sets short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them. Aligns communication, people, processes and resources to drive success. Organizes information and data to identify/explain trends, problems, and their causes.
• Teamwork & Collaboration: Contributes to common goal, maintains open communication with team members, asks for help when necessary, encourages involvement
• Diversity & Inclusion: Self-aware, attentive listener, people-oriented, cognizant of bias, cultural intelligence; demonstrating a respect for divergent viewpoints; an awareness of and sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the population served, thereby contributing to an environment that is equitable, inclusive, and cooperative.
• Flexibility: Adapts effectively to change by accepting changes in processes readily and with an optimistic perspective of the resulting benefits; readily accepts new technology as part of his/her job and uses it to continually improve efficiency or the quality of his/her work products

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a psychology/social work/human services-related discipline
• Past experience with Sharenote preferred, but not required
• Must be able to pass DBHDD background check (required prior to providing any services to clients)
• State-mandated training: Relias, CPR/First Aid, CPI (must be completed within the first 30 days of hire)
• Knowledge of Medicaid/CMO compliance requirements preferred
• Demonstrable knowledge of DSM-5 diagnosis criteria
• Willingness to learn new documentation and clinical skills
• Receptivity to feedback/constructive criticism

Individuals who are prompt in communication, have collaborative personalities, and demonstrate a passion and knowledge for mental health and human services will be considered.

*Must be able/willing to provide both virtual and in-person services with a strong emphasis on in-person.

*Hourly pay based on degree level and experience in community-based settings.
(Georgia – Atlanta Metropolitan Area)

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $30.00 - $50.00 per hour

Schedule:

• Choose your own hours

Work setting:

• Remote

Application Question(s):

• Please be sure to include an email address that you frequently check/respond to. Candidates will be contacted by email for the second stage of the pre-screening process.

Education:

• Master's (Required)

Experience:

• Behavioral health: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Required)

Work Location: In person