Behavioral Health Skills Trainer

About the role

The Behavioral Health Skills Trainer provides strengths-based, trauma-informed support to youth and families involved in foster care, adoption, or guardianship. Working with youth between the ages 3–18, the Skills Trainer helps children and adolescents develop social, emotional, behavioral, and independent living skills that promote stability, resilience, and success in home, school, and community settings. The Skills Trainer maintains a small caseload to ensure individualized support and works collaboratively with caregivers, treatment providers, schools, and community partners to coordinate services and promote positive outcomes for youth and families.

Responsibilities

• Provides strengths-based, trauma-informed support to youth and families involved in foster care, adoption, or guardianship.
• Helps children and adolescents develop social, emotional, behavioral, and independent living skills that promote stability, resilience, and success in home, school, and community settings.
• Maintains a small caseload to ensure individualized support.
• Works collaboratively with caregivers, treatment providers, schools, and community partners to coordinate services and promote positive outcomes for youth and families.
• Coordinates services and promotes positive outcomes for youth and families.
• Works with youth between the ages 3–18.
• Provides skills training during times identified as most relevant to the youth and family (including occasional nights, early mornings, and weekends).

Requirements

• High School Diploma
• Minimum of one (1) year of relevant experience - additional education may substitute for years of experience
• Valid driver’s license, clean driving record and auto insurance
• CPR/First Aid - provided by an agency
• Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NCI) - provided by an agency
• Tier 1 Collaborative Problem Solving - provided by an agency
• Satisfactory results of fingerprinting and background checks

Qualifications

• Competitive pay starting at $19.23/hour

Skills

• Strengths-based, trauma-informed support
• Collaboration with caregivers, treatment providers, schools, and community partners
• Coordination of services
• Positive outcomes for youth and families
• Skills training during times identified as most relevant to the youth and family

Benefits

• Paid vacation days that increase with tenure
• Separate sick leave that rolls over each year (up to 10)
• Paid holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefit plan options
• DailyPay - Access to your daily earnings without waiting for payday
• Training, Development and Continuing Education Credits for licensure requirements
• 401K
• Free licensure supervision
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance program
• Perks @Clarvida - national discounts on shopping, travel, Verizon, and entertainment
• Mileage reimbursement
• Cellphone stipend

Pay

Competitive pay starting at $19.23/hour

Schedule

Skills training is provided during times identified as most relevant to the youth and family (including occasional nights, early mornings, and weekends).