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About the Role

The Behavioral Health Specialist provides services to children and families, ensuring all services meet minimum educational and qualification requirements. The role involves delivering various support services based on training, experience, and qualifications.

Responsibilities

Provide Prevocational Services to prepare youth (age 14+) for paid work, volunteer work, or career exploration by teaching skills, work habits, and job production requirements.
Offer Respite services for children/youth with disabilities and their families/caregivers, providing supervision and engaging activities.
Deliver Planned Respite services for planned short-term relief to enhance family/caregiver ability to support the child/youth.
Provide Crisis Respite services as a short-term care and intervention strategy during mental health/substance use crises, medical crises, or trauma.
Offer Supported Employment services to assist participants in obtaining and maintaining competitive or customized employment.
Provide Caregiver/Family Advocacy Supports and Services to enhance the child/youth's ability to function within the family unit and improve caregiver capacity.
Deliver Community Habilitation services to assist children/youth with disabilities in developing self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills.
Oversee and execute all program requirements as assigned.
Properly document all necessary information on each child for billing purposes.
Participate in treatment team meetings to provide updates.
Report all Serious Reportable and Recordable Incidents to Supervisor.
Comply with Abbott House's policies, procedures, and time frames for reporting, documenting, and billing.
Utilize knowledge of evidence-based practice and complex trauma.
Perform any other related duties as required.

Requirements

Regularly required to stand; walk, use hands and fingers, handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; talk and listen, and taste or smell.
Frequently required to walk.
Occasionally required to keep balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Must be able to use a computer and learn software programs.
Required to operate a fax, copier, scan, and other office equipment.
Must be able to speak, read and write fluently in the English language.
Must be able to write in the English language using correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.
May frequently lift 0-25 lbs.
May occasionally lift 25-50 lbs.
May rarely lift over 50 lbs.
May frequently push/pull 0-25 lbs. of force.
May occasionally push/pull 26-45 lbs. force.
May rarely push/pull over 45 lbs.
Required to sit, stand and walk throughout the work day.
May occasionally stoop (bending body downward by bending spine at the waist).
May occasionally kneel (bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee(s)).
May occasionally crouch (bending body downward and forward by bending spine and legs).
Frequently works in an office environment.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate due to talk and movement of the program participants and other co-workers.
The noise level can increase on occasion due to yelling or screaming by the participants of the programs.

Skills

Knowledge of evidence based practice
Knowledge of complex trauma

Location

Irvington, NY

Work Type

Per Diem

Experience Level

1 year of experience
2 years of experience

Education Level

AA/AS
BA
BS
MA
High School Diploma

Salary/Compensations

$20.34 - $40.68 Hourly