This position is eligible for $2,000 hiring incentive. Certain payout conditions may apply.
Who We Are
Pacific Clinics is California's largest community-based nonprofit provider of behavioral and mental health services and support. Our team of more than 2,000 employees speak 22 languages and are dedicated to offering hope and unlocking the full potential of individuals and families through culturally responsive, trauma-informed, research-based services for individuals and families from birth to older adults.
Who We Serve
Pacific Clinics serves children, transitional age youth, families, adults, and older adults. We offer a full range of mental and behavioral health services, foster care and social services, housing, continuing adult education and early childhood education programs to Medi-Cal eligible individuals and families throughout various counties in California.
What We Offer
- The compensation for this position can be up to $25.81 per hour. Compensation will vary based on qualifications, skills, experience, and geographic location.
- We Offer Medical, Dental & Vision benefits, retirement options, Flex Spending, EAP, and more!
- Employee engagement and advocacy opportunities to advance our justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion agenda across our Agency and throughout the communities we serve.
JOB SUMMARY
Works within the vision, mission and philosophy of the agency. Within a team process, develops a strength-based relationship with youth and caregivers. Intervenes with maladaptive behaviors while developing the youths' strengths and interests. Responsible for linking to community resources and transferring skill sets to the caregiver. Helps to create permanent connections for youth and families. May search, locate and engage family members for youth. Assists with transitioning kids to the lowest level of care. Works independently in the family’s home and in a variety of community and/or treatment settings.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
- Provides direct services to youth and families.
- Provides direct billable mental health services, documents in alignment with MediCal regulations and achieves set productivity expectations.
- Engages and builds alignment and relationships with parents, youth, and others in the normal course of working with the families.
- Utilizes strengths of youth, families, and others to assist in the implementation and achievement of goals and outcomes.
- Works with youth and family teams to support family driven, strength-based planning and interventions.
- Understands and takes advantage of therapeutic opportunities in crisis situations.
- Conducts observations regarding specific target behavior, tracks progress and modifies plans with the family to support their intended identified outcome.
- Assists teams in developing a hypothesis of function and underlying unmet needs in an effort to develop individualized, strength-based strategies and interventions that will result in positive behavior change.
- Engages caregivers, family members, and other natural supports in building youth-specific parenting responses that support positive behavior change and overall family relationships.
- Works in the community directly with youth and families to develop and implement safety and skill refinement plans.
- Supports families in bridging to and/or building on natural resources and accessing community-based program supports that will continue support over time.
- Develops resources within the community to serve children and families.
- Assists youth and family teams to meet specific service needs and monitor outcomes.
- Participates in family finding team activities by identifying family finding needs, obtaining authorizations, creating teams, conducting searches and setting deadlines.
- Documents interactions and practices and maintains administrative expectations in a timely manner.
- Meets and/or exceeds all direct service expectations and documentation requirements.
- Assists in developing program responses to needs identified across a number of youth and families where natural community resources are not available or appropriate.
- Builds on individual strengths, concerns, and needs with balanced focus on the family as a unit.
- Facilitates and/or co-facilitates, supports, and models participation in healthy group dynamics within various settings including family homes, schools, parks and recreation centers, and treatment facilities.
- Builds solid, cooperative, culturally responsive relationships with youth and families as well as community resources to assist with the planning, organizing, implementation, and evaluation of appropriate activities to achieve family identified goals.
- Performs other responsibilities, as assigned, to support department/business needs.
JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES
- Documents clearly and accurately
- Encouraging customer focus
- Learning on the fly
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
High school diploma or GED.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
1 year working with children; BA/BS in related field preferred.
HIGHLY DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS
Speak, read, and/or write another language is highly desirable.
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