What are the responsibilities and job description for the School Behaviorist-Early Intervention Program position at Kintegra Health?
Title: School Behaviorist - Early Intervention Program
Department: Behavioral Health
Status: Exempt
Position Classification/Category: Medical
Location: School Based
Reports To: School Behavioral Health Director or School Behavioral Health Regional Lead
Direct Reports: None
Summary of Position:
Support of the Early Intervention Program to address students in Gaston County Schools identified at risk of developing a substance use disorder. This includes completion of assessments, therapeutic groups, individual counseling, care coordination and education. Works as a part of a multidisciplinary school-based treatment team to facilitate the provision of holistic, whole-person behavioral healthcare for all Kintegra Health patients. Provides behavioral health and substance abuse screening, brief intervention, education, and referral services for patients within a school-based setting. Provides ongoing consultation and treatment planning support for school administrators, social workers, and teaching personnel to meet the needs of individual clients and school programs. Will work with patients with psychosocial, behavioral health, chronic disease, behavior change, and/or substance use concerns. Is knowledgeable of and adheres to all policies, professional practice standards, philosophies and requirements for professional clinical practice.
Performance Requirements:
Education: Master’s Degree in Social Work, Counseling or related field.
Experience Required: Minimum experience and/or exposure to working within a school, supporting student population.
Professional Licensure: LCAS(A) Required, LCSW(A), LCMHC(A), LMFT(A)
Certification(s) : CPR
Key Responsibilities:
- Practice reflects adherence to professional Code of Ethics.
- Provides evidence-based assessment, intervention, consultation, and referral services for students/families (patients) with a variety of behavioral and chronic health conditions
- Works cooperatively as an integral part of the school system team with the goal of improving patient care and increasing team efficiency.
- Formulates and facilitates the implementation of behavioral health, substance abuse, and chronic disease management plans of care through use appropriate treatment modalities, interventions, and available community resources.
- Assists school administrators, social workers, teaching personnel with screening, identification, diagnosis, management, and treatment of behavioral health, substance use, issues, chronic disease management.
- Engages in ongoing assessment and quality improvement strategies to assist in the implementation ongoing primary care/behavioral health integration strategies.
- Provides consultative services to school system team members within the scope of care definitions and provides training to other health care professionals as needed.
- Completes, in a timely manner, all required documentation related to patient treatment, payment for services rendered, and organizational operations.
- Engages in continuing education to maintain licensure and enhance professional competence relevant to medical and legal issues that impact patient care.
- Maintains working knowledge of and liaison with community agencies and resources.
Kintegra Health Core Requirements:
- Patient First – An approach to care that holds primary, the well-being and desires of the patient.
- Build not Blame – Focusing first on finding fault with the process rather than the person.
- Integrity and Honesty – Fostering an acceptance of openness, honesty, and fairness in words, deeds and the use of organizational resources judiciously for both internal and external customers.
- Cooperation and Flexibility – Related to an internal belief that we function as part of an interdependent team with only shared gains or losses thereby committed to assisting whenever possible beyond the prerequisite job description.
- Culturally Sensitive – Always working toward increasing one’s ability to understand, communicate with, effectively interact and care for people across cultures, while having an acute awareness of one’s own culture.
Kintegra Health is a is a community sponsored, family-centered provider of health care, health education and preventive care services without regard to the ability to pay. We first screen potential employees to ensure alignment with our core requirements followed by the requisite position skills set. In doing so we need staff committed to this mission who do their best to live and work the characteristics of our core values as we strive to care for our ever-increasing members of the communities we serve. Our goals are:
- To provide continuing comprehensive and accessible primary care and behavioral health services to individuals and families of all economic levels.
- To provide primary care services to meet the physical as well as social health needs of individuals and families, promoting health maintenance, providing timely diagnostics, treatment and referral services.
- To emphasize preventive care through patient and community education to help individuals become aware and responsible for their own health behaviors.
- To employ an interdisciplinary team approach in collaboration with other community providers to provide a continuum of appropriate patient/family-oriented care in a cost-effective manner
