Child and Family Specialist, Mental Health

About the Role

At Wayfinder Family Services, we understand the unique challenges facing some of our state’s most vulnerable children, youth, and adults. The Child and Family Specialist provides mental health skills-based rehabilitation services and behavioral interventions to assist clients in our clinical therapeutic program, helping them manage behaviors to increase positive social and emotional functioning.

The specialist works in coordination with inter- and intra-agency treatment team members across various community-based settings, collaborates with any identified Child and Family Team (CFT), and delivers trauma-informed, culturally competent services as outlined in the client’s treatment plan(s).

Responsibilities

• Maintain confidentiality of all pertinent client information.
• Participate in intake, assessment, plan development, and review, and provide services including individual and group rehabilitation, targeted case management, intensive care coordination, collateral, intensive home-based services, and crisis intervention.
• Develop a working knowledge of functional behavioral analysis and assessment, behavioral modification techniques, crisis intervention, and other techniques for working with youth with behavioral challenges.
• Respond to crisis situations.
• Perform other duties as outlined in the position description.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or related field plus two (2) years of experience in a mental health setting as a specialist in physical restoration, social adjustment, or vocational adjustment, OR
• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or related field plus four (4) years of experience in a mental health setting as a specialist in physical restoration, social adjustment, or vocational adjustment, OR
• Associate’s degree plus six (6) years of experience in a mental health setting as a specialist in physical restoration, social adjustment, or vocational adjustment.
• Valid California Driver’s License with a minimum of two (2) years of good driving history and must be approved by the agency’s insurance carrier to drive agency vehicles.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) policy, 11 paid holidays, plus five winter holidays.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match up to 4%.
• Employee referral program.
• Education tuition assistance program for career development.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible.
• Flexible spending account (FSA) plans.
• Hybrid work schedule.

Pay

The hourly wage range for this role is $22.00 - $25.00.