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Behavior Specialist I – Mental Health Agency with great training opportunities
Who We Serve
Pacific Clinics serves children, transitional age youth, families, adults, and older adults. We offer a full range of mental and behavioral health services, foster care and social services, housing, continuing adult education and early childhood education programs to Medi-Cal eligible individuals and families throughout Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Orange, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Solano, Stanislaus, Stockton, Tulare and Ventura Counties.
What We Offer
The Position: We are looking for a full time Behavior Specialist (Wraparound) in San Bernardino, CA!
JOB SUMMARY
Works within the vision, mission and philosophy of the agency. Under direct supervision develops and implements positive behavior supports and intervention strategies to address significant behavioral problems for youth and their families/caregivers in a variety of environments. Works collaboratively with others on the clinical team to support creation and implementation of stabilization and service plans. Works independently with youth and or families in a variety of settings including homes, community, and or treatment settings.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
1. Provides direct services to youth and families.
2. Assists teams in developing a hypothesis of function and underlying unmet needs in an effort to develop individualized, strength based strategies and interventions that will result in positive behavior change.
3. Develops intervention plans that support the decrease in behaviors while incorporating strengths into skill development plans, a time-line regarding implementation and transition of plans to the youth and family, as well as both proactive and reactive strategies that can be used before, after, and during escalating incidents.
4. Understands and engages in therapeutic opportunities in crisis situations and provides corrective experiences in times of crisis.
5. Offers constructive feedback and creative suggestions in the use of non-aversive approaches to behavior change to all members of the team.
6. Models, trains, and practices with the child, family and natural supports behavioral interventions and skill development plans.
7. Provides positive demonstration of professional behavior in all aspects of his/her role, maintaining positive relations with customers and modeling the value of these relationships internally and externally.
8. Attends and participate in weekly supervision, weekly staff meetings, in-service training and treatment team meetings.
9. Actively participates in continuous quality improvement processes and projects.
10. Performs other responsibilities, as assigned, to support department and business needs.
Coordinate w Behavioral Analyst to complete a Functional Analysis Report.
Gather relevant behavioral Information to develop treatment goals.
Conduct behavioral observations and interviews.
Develop and monitor intervention plans.
Train, role model and practice interventions with the Interdisciplinary team.
Document interactions, practices and results and maintain administrative expectations in a timely manner.
Develop and coordinate specific projects as assigned.
Docume Other duties as assigned nt and communicate changes in client plans and intervention strategies to all interdisciplinary team members.
JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES
• Documents Clearly And Accurately
• Demonstrates Customer Focus
• Learns On The Fly
• Effectively manages time
• Demonstrates effective conflict resolution skills
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
• Bachelor of Arts/Science (B.A./B.S.), preferred course of study in a human service field.
• One (1) year experience working with children who have serious emotional disabilities and their families
OTHER SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
• Ability to engage and work with parents as partners, recognizing and respecting diverse ethnic and cultural differences and preferences.
• Ability to enlist the help and investment of individuals and community resources to meet the needs of program families.
• Ability to be self-directed, efficient, and achieve results with minimal direction or oversight.
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
• Ability to function productively as a leader or member of a team.
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Equal Opportunity Employer
We will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with ordinance 184652 Sec.189.04 (a) and San Francisco Police Code, Article 49. Section 4905.
Full Time
Ambulatory Healthcare Services
$59k-74k (estimate)
05/15/2023
05/07/2024
pacificclinics.org
PASADENA, CA
500 - 1,000
1926
Private
SUSAN SABO
<$5M
Ambulatory Healthcare Services
Pacific Clinics provides behavioral programs for children, women and men.
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