What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Behavioral Health Specialist position at Justice Resource Institute?
JRI's Community Based Services division provides care to ensure that families and their children with significant behavioral, emotional, and mental health needs obtain the services necessary for success in the home, school, and community.
Our Approach
We provide services in the communities where the people we serve live, utilizing strength-based and needs-driven choices. Our team-based approach is grounded in culturally competent, individualized services and the use of evidence-based practices.
Job Responsibilities
- You will be able to provide a variety of community-based services including home and community based family therapy, in-home therapy services, therapeutic training and support services, case management, crisis intervention, treatment planning, and assessments.
- You will serve as a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team that works together to find the best and most effective methods of guiding and supporting clients within the community.
- You will design and deliver interventions to enhance and improve the family's capacity to improve the youth's functioning in the home and community and may prevent the need for the youth's admission to an inpatient hospital, psychiatric residential treatment facility or other treatment setting.
- You will develop a structured, consistent, strength-based therapeutic relationship between a clinician and the youth and family for the purpose of treating the youth's behavioral health needs, including improving the family's ability to provide effective support for the youth to promote their healthy functioning within the family.
- You will provide culturally competent, trauma informed, confidential clinical services that place the needs of the young person at the center of your practice.
- You will provide consultation to collaterals including schools and medical service providers.
Requirements
- A minimum Master's degree or above in the mental health field, must be licensed or license eligible (LCSW, LICSW, LMHC or LMFT).
- Proven ability to form therapeutic relationships with people from diverse backgrounds including those of different racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious and sexual orientation identities.
- Must be willing to maintain a flexible work schedule and to participate in an on-call schedule.
- Knowledge of or ability to learn electronic medical record software and basic computer functions including the Microsoft Suite.
- Clinical experience with children/adolescents is required and familiarity with trauma informed models of treatment preferred.
