Worker-Mental Health-CREATE

Summary/Objective

The CREATE (Creating Relationships and Emotional Adaptability in a Therapeutic Environment) Mental Health Worker provides clinically appropriate therapeutic
support services for children between the ages of 3-21 with Autism Spectrum diagnosis and/or developmental delays within the CREATE service setting. The services require the implementation of the program, according to their treatment plan, designed to assist children with developing effective cooperative and reciprocal socialization skills with peers for use in home, school, and community settings.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Reviews behavior plans, and any other documentation as a method of understanding the child and/or adolescent and presenting problem.
• Engages with client identifies individual, family and community strengths and resources.
• Provides specific therapeutic support, as prescribed in the client’s treatment plan, including crisis intervention techniques, immediate behavioral reinforcements, emotional support, time-structuring activities, time-out strategies and psychosocial, rehabilitative activities.
• Provide administrative support for clinical programming.
• Supports creating and updating curriculum and lesson plans.
• Supports room set up for program daily.
• Monitors and supports client’s daily progress on goals and objectives, as prescribed in the treatment plan.
• Supports program outcome data collection and analysis.
• Provides consistent communication and feedback to the family and other team members on client’s progress.
• Is able to intervene and provide immediate assistance in crisis situations.
• Completes all documentation requirements within determined time-frames; completes all forms, consistent with CGRC corporate compliance procedures.
• Completes all training and actively participates in required supervision in accordance with program and agency guidelines.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor Degree in counseling, psychology, social work or related behavioral health field;
• Minimum one (1) year experience working with children and their families in a mental health, education, child welfare or juvenile justice system (CASSP Systems).

Preferred Education and Experience

• N/A

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• N/A

Behavioral Competencies

• Communication
• Cultural Competency
• Ethical Conduct
• Independence and Initiative
• Personal Effectiveness/Credibility
• Problem Solving/Analysis
• Relationship Building
• Organization

Job Specific Competencies

• Understanding of childhood development and developmental norms.

Work Environment

Services are provided in CGRC offices or similar setting. Role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, scanners and photocopiers.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to speak and hear sufficiently to communicate effectively by phone or in person at normal volumes. The
employee’s vision must be adequate to read correspondence, computer screen, forms, etc. The position requires good manual dexterity to operate a keyboard, photocopier, telephone, and other office equipment. Employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, frequently lift, and/or move up 10 pounds. May be required to physically restrain
children.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This position can be full-time or part-time. The full-time schedule is 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday including evening program hours. The part-time
schedule is a minimum of two (2) program sessions a week (Monday/Wednesday, Tuesday/Thursday) including one hour prior to the start of the program.

Travel

May require regular travel to other CGRC sites for meetings, trainings etc.

EEO Statement

It is the policy of Child Guidance Resource Centers to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. Child Guidance Resource Centers employs, retains, promotes, terminates and otherwise treats any and all employees and job applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications and competence.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.