Intervention Specialist

The primary role of an Intervention Specialist is to develop a personal and positive rapport with a child/young adult client. This involves consistent meetings with the child/adult and ensuring the meeting times are enjoyable and comfortable. Intervention Specialist should assist children/adults in creating life action plans, such as a goal timeline.

CPST (Community Psychiatric Service Treatment). Participate in the intake and planning process and assessment as requested. Provide intensive Interventions (counseling) – individual, family and relationship based counseling. Provide crisis avoidance (counseling) – assist the child/youth with effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors or trigger, identifying potential crisis, develop a crisis management plan and/or seek other supports to restore stability and functioning. Assist child and family in developing the capacity to prevent a crisis episode or reduce the severity of a crisis episode should one occur. Provide Intermediate Term crisis management (counseling) – assist families following a crisis episode. Assist to stabilize child/youth in the home and natural environment, assist with the goal setting on issues identified from emergency room intervention and other referral sources. Provide rehabilitative psycho-education – educating the child/youth and family members or other collateral strategies to minimize the negative effects of the symptoms which interfere with the child/youth's daily living and/or overall well-being.

PSR (Psychoeducation Rehibilation Services) are also used for health and lifestyle changes. For example, clients, or patients, with support from peers, may have one-on-one sessions that meet regularly to help them recover or rehabilitate. Peer mentoring provides individuals who have suffered from a specific life experience the chance to learn from those who have recovered, or rehabilitated, following such an experience. Peer mentors provide education, recreation and support opportunities to individuals. The peer mentor may challenge the mentee with new ideas, and encourage the mentee to move beyond the things that are most comfortable.

Behavioral Managers are to assist in the development of behavioral plans that are tailored to each individual client’s needs; this goes hand and hand with the treatment plans that is created by case managers and licensed therapists. Behavior management, also called behavior modification, attempts to guide and motivate individuals to change their actions or interactions in certain settings. Behavior management, also called behavior modification, attempts to guide and motivate individuals to change their actions or interactions in certain settings.

Behavior management includes identification of the problem or negative behavior, education about replacement behaviors, alterations to the individual’s environment to reduce the negative behavior, positive reinforcement to encourage the new behavior and negative reinforcement to discourage the inappropriate action. Behavior management planning may include behavioral analysis and data collection, education and role playing, along with the institution of contractual agreements.

A CPST or PSR provider is attending sessions for clients regarding their past and current behavior in the home where you will complete behavior management exercises/work or social and interpersonal skill development in order to produce a positive and safe outlook in a client’s behavior and attitude. PSR you will attend sessions with your client in order to encourage past positive behavior and set goals for future positive behavior as well as demonstrate positive behaviors.

Pay will depend on education and experience level, or a combination of both.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract

Pay: $20.00 - $30.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekends as needed

Education:

• Associate (Preferred)

Experience:

• Working with children/adolescents: 2 years (Preferred)

Willingness to travel:

• 100% (Required)

Work Location: On the road

Salary : $20 - $30