This position is located within the Louisiana Department of Health /Office of Behavioral Health / Behav Hlth Clin/Cmty Prog /Statewide
Announcement Number: OBH/EL/192595
Cost Center: 203186
Position Number(s): 203186
This vacancy is being announced as a classified position and will be filled as a part-time WAE appointment.
**Please note** Part-time WAE appointments are temporary and may last up to a year. Employees can only work a total of 1,245 hours within a 12-month period.
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Office of Behavioral Health (OBH) is looking for qualified candidates to join the C’est Bon Team, a program designed to assess the quality of care within the Local Governing Entities (LGEs). The program includes a program monitor/supervisor and four interviewers. The interviewers are behavioral health peers and family members who assess the quality of care within the publicly supported behavioral health system by conducting person-to-person interviews with individuals receiving services. The data collected by the interviewers will be used to help meet the needs of both professionals and individuals by maintaining and promoting continuous quality improvement in the delivery of services to individuals. The interviewer holds a WAE (When Actually Employed) position that requires flexible work hours and responsibilities, as well as extensive statewide travel. Interviewers work approximately 24 to 28 hours per week, not to exceed 1245 hours annually.
Minimum Qualifications

• Excellent writing, reading and oral communication skills
• Excellent listening skills
• Computer skills
• Basic math skills
• Sensitive to ethnic, cultural and diagnostic differences
• Personal lived experience with the behavioral health system or family member of individual with lived experience
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Valid driver license with clean driving record
• Criminal background check
• Willingness to participate in statewide travel on a regular basis

Note: NOTE: This is a part-time WAE position that requires extensive travel to mental health clinics statewide.
The OBH will provide a rental car, hotel room and meal reimbursement per Louisiana Travel Guide (PPM49) for work conducted outside of your official domicile.
Responsibilities(specific duties of the position will include but are not limited to)

• Conduct surveys with individuals receiving behavioral health services (50%)
• Compile data obtained from surveys of individuals (20%)
• Enter survey information into the data collection system (20%)
• Traveling to mental health clinics statewide (10%)

For more information, contact Brianda Zapien-Vargas at Brianda.Zapien-Vargas@la.gov or
(225) 342-8409.
Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
*Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.*
A resume upload will NOT populate your information into your application. Work experience left off your electronic application or only included in an attached resume is not eligible to receive credit
For further information about this vacancy contact:
Ella Lewis
Ella.Lewis2@LA.GOV
LDH/HUMAN RESOURCES
BATON ROUGE, LA 70821
225 342-6477
This organization participates in E-verify, and for more information on E-verify, please contact DHS at 1-888-464-4218.