What are the responsibilities and job description for the Behavioral Health Specialist Trainee @ Special Education Department, TalentEd #2099 position at Mt. Diablo Unified?
Behavioral Health Specialist Trainee Job Description
Stipend Information:
Year 1 - Volunteer
Year 2 - $100/Day for 180-day work calendar (36 weeks)
- Which equals $3,600 per one work weekday worked for 36 weeks.
What we offer: Large suburban public district with approximately 29,000 students ranging from 3 to 21 years of age and a wide range of races/ethnicities, languages and socio-economic statuses. As its own SELPA, our district completes its own Educationally Related Mental Health Services (ERMHS) evaluations and offers a range of counseling and social-emotional/behavioral supports (e.g., school-based Outpatient Medi-Cal therapy services, DIS counseling, ERMHS counseling, Social Emotional Educational Collaborative/Counseling Enriched Program classrooms, and separate schools with in-classroom supports provided).
Job Duties
First year trainee students:
- Typically work 2 to 3 days a week with 1 to 2 hours of weekly direct supervision
- Complete supervised tasks related to individual counseling, case management, group counseling.
- Typically work 3-4 days a week with 1 to 3 hours of weekly direct supervision (Per Board of Behavioral Sciences - 2 units of supervision to collect pre-masters MFT hours).
- Complete tasks related to individual/group counseling with increasing independence in managing caseload over the school year including increasing capacity for billing on eligible students with open Medi-Cal cases.
- Build and strengthen professional skills (e.g., caseload management, crisis support, meeting facilitation, teamwork, consultation, assessment and treatment planning, documentation).
Behavioral Health Specialist Trainee (Stipend Pending Board Approval)
Year 1 - Volunteer Year 2 - $100/Day for 180 day work calendar (36 weeks) - Which equals $3,600 per one work week day worked for 36 weeks. Anticipated Board Approval May 10, 2023
