Behavioral Health Coordinator for Homeless Youth

About Us:
The Wichita Children’s home was founded in 1888 and has been a haven for children in crisis for over 135 years. WCH offers safe shelter and trauma-responsive services for children and youth ranging from newborns up to 24 year-olds. WCH provides emergency, temporary residential care for children and youth who have experienced abuse, neglect, human trafficking, grief, and homelessness.

Position Overview:
The Behavioral Health Coordinator is responsible for ensuring comprehensive care for youth focusing on both physical and mental well-being. The coordinator will facilitate access to medical services, community resources, and support systems while also addressing behavioral health needs. The Behavioral Health Coordinator is also responsible for maintaining an environment that reflects best practice standards and promotes and maintains a biopsychosocial model of care based on the principles of trauma-informed and restorative practice. The Behavioral Health Coordinator develops and implements treatment plans, provides leadership, program design and program progress. The overarching focus of the Behavioral Health Coordinator position is to ensure excellence and therapeutic care of youth to assist them in achieving stabilization and self-actualization.

Duties

• Performs a thorough assessment of program participants in order to develop a personal, comprehensive, individualized service plan. Develops and reviews the implementation of plans incorporating family dynamics and involvement, and development of life skills, moving the youth towards stabilization and self-actualization.
• Collaborates with the director, program manager, case manager/care navigators and addictions counselor during multi-disciplinary planning and continuous quality improvement, and maintains the WCH biopsychosocial model of care that is based on the principles of trauma-informed and restorative practice to confirm program participants receive youth-centered, optimal care, safety and a sense of community.
• Collaborates, coordinates, and advocates with other colleagues, community professionals, servicing agencies, youth, families, and volunteers, to ensure therapeutic treatment plan development and implementation is based on evidence-based or emerging evidence-based practice to promote youth self-actualization.
• Provides oversight, management, and execution of the therapeutic delivery, case management, support, and counseling of youth, including providing individual and group counseling.
• Reviews, monitors, and tracks therapeutic activities and delivery within regular intervals to ensure effective advances have been adopted and implemented as strategies towards best practice standards and timely reporting.

Abilities Required:

• Effective interpersonal skills working with a diverse client base, including residents, staff, community, and executive leadership team
• Knowledge of the techniques and principles of child and family development, family systems theory, crisis therapy intervention, individual, family, group and play therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma response, child abuse and family violence, and trauma-focused interventions.
• Excel in critical thinking and problem-solving in order to evaluate and assist residents in developing treatment plans.
• A high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments efficiently and accurately.
• Proficiency in using written and computer skills to plan, develop, analyze, and evaluate data to provide consultation, develop initiatives, and prepare reports.
• Ability to work well in independent project development and adapt easily to multiple projects, assignments, and deadlines.
• Ability to analyze and see trends in various types of data and recommend follow-up steps.
• Respect confidential information.
• Ability to maintain composure in stressful situations.

Education and Experience:

Required:

• Master’s degree in social service or related field.
• Master's level licensure in social service or related field.
• Must have a valid Kansas driver’s license and be free of any major traffic violations.

Preferred:

• Three years’ experience in providing counseling or therapy to adolescents and young adults.
• Experience coordinating behavioral health services.

Schedule Options:

• Mon-Fri 11a-7p
• OR 8a-5p 3 days and 2 days 11a-7p - Mon-Fri

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, short and long-term disability insurance, employer-paid life insurance with the option to add coverage for dependents
• Employee Assistance Program with the ability to send unlimited text, video, and audio messages, or schedule 30-minute live session with your dedicated therapist
• 403b retirement plan with matching after one year of employment
• 7 company paid holidays off per year
• 17 days of PTO accrued each year
• Pet insurance through ASPCA
• Discounted phone plans for personal lines through Previ

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $55,000.00 - $63,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 403(b)
• 403(b) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Which schedule option would work for you? 1. Mon-Fri 11a-7p

OR 2. 8a-5p 3 days and 2 days 11a-7p - Mon-Fri

• What salary are you looking for in your next position?

Education:

• Master's (Required)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Required)
• masters level license, please list which one (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $55,000 - $63,000