Job Description
Description Fred Finch Youth & Family Services is a great place to work. Year after year, our employees make the difference in helping those with mental health issues. Whether you are just starting your career or a seasoned professional, you'll be able to find the right spot to help others at a TOP WORKPLACE in 2023.
Fred Finch TBS behavior "coaches" work intensively with a participant in their home or in the community. The program requests authorization to provide services up to 20 hours a week. The needs of each participant guide the length and intensity of the program services they receive. The TBS coach designs, structures, models, and supports one-to-one interventions to modify target behaviors of concern or teach appropriate alternative behaviors, so that children and their family members or caregivers can live independently.
To sustain participants' improvements after TBS concludes, staff develops transition plans to help each child and their caregivers.
We are currently seeking:
TBS Worker - Therapeutic Behavioral Services What You Will Do: The TBS Worker is responsible for providing individualized 1:1 behavioral and therapeutic interventions to participants in their home environment, school, or other setting toward the goal of stabilization. The TBS Worker provides services as an adjunct to specialty mental health services in order to prevent higher level of care (including psychiatric hospitalization) or to transition to a lower level of care.
Shifts Available On-Call - Hourly; Mon-Fri/hours TBD
Salary Range In accordance with California law, the expected salary range for this position is between $25.30 and $32.29 per hour. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.
Amazing Benefits: 21 PTO Days per year 9 Nationally Observed Holidays 401k matching up to 6% Affordable monthly health care premiums: What You Bring to The Table (requirements): Required - B.A. Degree and one (1) year experience working with youth.
- Experience with or knowledge of designing, supervising, monitoring, changing, and discontinuing individualized behavioral interventions.
- Demonstrated ability to assess, triage and organize work.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the developmental stages of youth and young adults.
- Demonstrated knowledge of risk assessment, including danger to self or others, and effective community-based interventions for those with high risk.
- Demonstrated ability to utilize de-escalation techniques that align with the trauma-informed care model as part of the intervention strategy for working with participants in crisis who are responding to triggers/stressors and/or demonstrating early indicators of distress.
- Demonstrated ability of cultural responsiveness in working with diverse families and
- Clean driving record: current CA Driver's License or ability to obtain within 10 days after hired.
- Must have access to dependable transportation; personal car insurance meeting minimum liability coverage required if position requires driving for work or transporting participants.
- Basic computer and keyboarding competence with the ability to use Microsoft Office Suite and/or competency with electronic clinical documentation
Preferred - One (1) year experience with program target population (Example: intellectually disabled, homeless, teens or young adults with a mental health disability
- One (1) year experience with behavioral work.
- Applies a strength-based, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and flexible approach to supervision, participant and community service, in order to support participant recovery, health, and wellness.
- Familiarity, training, certification, or experience with recovery-model orientation, public mental health and child welfare systems.
- Exhibits strong behavioral and crisis management.
- Fluency in prevailing language(s) of the community.
Our Mission: "Fred Finch Youth & Family Services partners with individuals and communities to provide culturally responsive services that cultivate mental and physical resilience and wellness." Fred Finch Youth Center Glassdoor Reviews | Txt FFJOBS to 22100 for a current list of openings
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