Behavioral Health Specialist I

About the role

This position is responsible for providing psychosocial, rehabilitation and recovery-oriented services for Turning Point members. It involves advocating for members in all areas of treatment and helping them access services. Additional support includes medication management, resource connection, counseling, and advocacy.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and direction for clients as assigned.
• Advocates for clients in all areas of treatment and helps them apply for and receive services.
• Empowers clients in meeting their goals.
• Advocates for and assists clients and their families in accessing and receiving mental health treatment, medical care, housing, food, and clothing as indicated.
• Maintains all client records and completes required documentation and data entry according to program standards including progress notes, activity reports, and logs, etc.
• Makes regular visits to clients at Turning Point sites or in the field, at job sites, homes, board and care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and other appropriate sites.
• Consults with or meets regularly with the client’s family, care provider, or other significant persons with client's consent.
• Coaches clients in developing age-appropriate social skills, money management, personal hygiene, and job readiness.
• Affords financial management plans for clients who receive Representative Payee Services and authorizes appropriate expenditures.
• Develops and implements holistic case management services for a group of clients.
• Provides “on-the-spot” counseling that is both helpful to the clients and consistent with the philosophy of the program.
• Drives on program business using personal vehicle for the purposes of medication outreach, home visits, transporting clients to appointments/activities, community/county meetings/trainings, MH court.
• Attends to the safety, health, and wellbeing of clients.
• Completes paperwork as assigned in a timely manner.

Qualifications

• A typical way of obtaining the knowledge, skills, and abilities outlined above is through graduation from high school or an accredited GED program and four (4) years of varied experience as a provider of direct mental health services.
• Relevant higher education may be substituted for up to two (2) years of experience.
• Optimum: Graduation from a four (4) year university or college with a bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, or related field and four (4) years varied experience as a provider of direct mental health services or meeting other Mental Health Rehabilitation Specialist qualifications.

License/Certificates/Special Requirements

• California driver’s license & current vehicle insurance/registration.
• Reliable means of transportation capable of passing vehicle safety inspection if more than five years old excluding all modes of two-wheeled transport inclusive of bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles.