Behavioral Health Specialist-Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI)

The Behavioral Health Specialist (BHS) provides intensive, strength based, needs-driven early intervention and prevention activities that support the engagement and participation of the client and significant support persons and to help the client develop skills and achieve the goals and objectives of the plan. BHS services are not traditional therapeutic services. 

Providing behavioral services may include, but not limited to, providing outreach and prevention services, mentorship and academic support, parent education, and other prevention and early intervention activities. assistance in improving, maintaining or restoring a client’s or group of client’s functional skills; daily living skills; social and leisure skills. Services will be provided as part of . BHS will be trained to provide services under each treatment level and billing source. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining a constructive and collaborative relationship among a client, their family or caregiver(s), other providers, and other involved child-serving systems.
• Care planning and monitoring to ensure that the plan is aligned and coordinated across the mental health and child serving systems to allow the client to be served in their community in the least restrictive setting possible; 
• Ensuring services are provided that equip the parent/caregiver(s) to meet the client’s mental health treatment and care coordination needs, described in the client’s plan;
• Ensuring that medically necessary mental health services included in the client’s plan are effectively and comprehensively assessed, coordinated, delivered, transitioned and/or reassessed as necessary in a way that is consistent with the full intent of the Core Practice Model; 
• Providing active coordination of services and resources as required to meet the goals of the plan; 
• Providing active participation in the planning and monitoring process to assure that the plan addresses or is refined to meet the mental health needs of the client:

Starting Salary: $22.50-$23.18

Qualifications.

A successful candidate must have the following skills and experience:

• 60 semester units of college credit in psychology, behavioral or social science or related field required. In lieu of college credit requirements, 3+years related experience with 1 year of direct work under a licensed clinician is accepted. 
• Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or other related fields is preferred
• Bilingual/Spanish preferred. 
• Two years experience working in a Mental Health Setting required
• Knowledge of African American history and culture preferred.
• Maintain a welcoming environment for families and other community partners.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA privacy practices.