Behavioral Specialist - Children's Hope Alliance: Burlington, NC

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

• Behavior Support & Skill-building Services
  • Facilitate the Child & Family Team and Person-Centered Planning processes.
  • Develop, update, and monitor the Person-Centered Plan.
  • Proactively work with ACTT Team members to develop and maintain a strengths-based family & community approach.
  • Provide direct behavioral and skills coaching support to clients and families.
  • Ensure that effective intervention and problem-solving techniques are utilized in all treatment settings, using the least restrictive interventions.
  • Role model respect, empathy & appropriate boundaries and communication with clients and family members.
  • Provide planned day or evening skill-building care to children and families on the Child Focused ACTT Team.
  • Provide and supervise educational, social and recreational activities for children.
  • Transport clients or family members as needed for skill-building activities.
  • Provide and administer medication for children during skill-building activities when needed.
  • Participates in 24/7 on-call rotation.
  • Assist with technical support for tele-psychiatric and teletherapy services, including but not limited to CHA iPhone set up.
• Clinical Team/Training/Documentation
  • Participate as a member of the clinical team in a client-focused manner through daily client staffing meetings, team meetings, clinical meetings, and participation in training events.
  • Complete all required service documentation, screening tools, and forms per agency and Medicaid standards.
  • Ensure that incident reports are completed per agency, state and Medicaid standards, utilizing Electronic Health Record while on shift.
  • Comply with all policies, practices, and procedures. Report all out-of-compliance or unsafe activities to supervisor.
• Supervision responsibilities:
  • None

Requirements

• Education and Experience Requirements
  • Must qualify as a QP.
  • QP qualifications: MA in Human Services and has 1 year experience with population - OR - BA in Human Services and has 2 years of experience with population - OR - Licensed or Provisionally Licensed Professional Provider in the field of population served.
  • Must have one year’s experience working with children with serious emotional disturbance.
  • Requires effective communication, decision making, analytical, interpersonal, leadership and professionalism skills and abilities.
  • Must have basic computer and math skills.
  • Must have a valid North Carolina’s Driver’s License.
  • Must submit to and pass pre-employment drug screening, criminal, HCPR and driving checks.
  • Must submit personal car insurance and registration information if transporting clients in own personal vehicle.
• Physical Requirements
  • 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.
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, handle or feel objects, tools or controls, talk, and hear.
  • The employee is frequently required to reach with hands or arms, stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  • The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
  • Specifics vision abilities required by this position include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
  • Physical functions which are considered essential to the satisfactory performance of the job include the following: reading, typing, writing, speaking, and using the telephone and prolonged sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
  • Employee must be able to operate a vehicle for job duties, and keep a valid NC drivers license with insurance.
  • The work environment will contain slight to moderate office-related noises.
  • The employee is not exposed to extreme weather conditions, toxic fumes, or airborne particles.
  • The employee must occasionally travel to different locations in the course of work.
  • Physical functions which are considered essential to the satisfactory performance of the job include the following: public speaking, reading, typing, writing, using the telephone, driving, therapeutically restraining children and adolescents in crisis situations.

Supervision

• None