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Full time position with benefits

Delivers an array of community-based services, which meet the individualized mental health needs of the children and families served. Performs a variety of functions in multiple settings, displaying an understanding of family dynamics, cultural preferences, and community environments. Delivers service to client and/or any other individual who will assist in that client’s mental health treatment.

Primary Responsibilities:

Direct Client Service

• Provides behavioral health interventions including, but not limited to on-going assessment of needs, assistance in managing basic needs, facilitation of development of interpersonal, coping, and daily living skills, symptom monitoring, advocacy, and outreach, and helping clients’ adaptation to home, school and community environments.
• Provides coordination and/or assistance in crisis management and stabilization as needed.
• Responsible for the development of or participation in the development of, each child’s Individualized Service Plan (ISP) in consultation with client, parent/guardian, and other service providers.
• Coordinates services as identified in the Individualized Service Plan. Maintains knowledge of client and family assessments, medical history, strengths of the person served and treatment need.

Internal and External Collaboration

• Conduct team meetings, scheduled according to level of care, to ensure all members of the team are following the treatment goals and objectives of client’s plan to be successful.
• Consults, collaborates, and coordinates treatment with other provider agencies and systems on behalf of the client and family.
• Assists in gaining access to essential community resources, linking to formal community services/systems. Provides assistance to clients in accessing natural supports within the community.
• Develops and maintains a working knowledge of community resources maintaining updated information regarding juvenile justice, human services, health, mental health, legal, and educational/vocational systems of care.
• Facilitates the successful generalization of skills into community settings
• Assists the transition of children through systems of care, ensuring continuity and collaboration with caregivers and treatment team.

Administration

• Responsible for providing a team meeting agenda, taking notes from the meeting, and delivering the documentation to each participant.
• Adheres to all agency and regulatory standards and expectations. Responsible for meeting administrative expectations including, but not limited to maintaining required documentation and reporting data.
• Ensures all required documentation is submitted accurately and on a timely basis.
• Attends professional development trainings as indicated.
• Attends department and agency wide meetings and committees as requested.

Quality Assurance and Effectiveness

• Delivers interventions based on best practice models.
• Participates in quality assurance and process improvement activities as identified.

Fiscal Responsibility

• Meets or exceeds monthly and year to date department productivity requirements (UR).

Other duties as assigned

Minimum Education, Experience and Other Skill Requirements:

This position requires a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling or related field from an accredited college or university plus a minimum of one-year clinical experience in working with children and families. Must possess minimum technical skills including familiarity with Microsoft Windows and ability to use standard Microsoft Office applications.

Our Culture:

Best Point is Greater Cincinnati’s most prolific non-profit specializing in education, behavioral and therapeutic health services and autism services for vulnerable, at-risk youth, their families, and caregivers.

Best Point is proud to embrace our ideals of an equal opportunity workplace by actions as well as our words. We lead our community with respect and tolerance, internally and externally, and we expect our employees to embrace this ideal and express it in their day-to-day interactions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against, based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.

Compensation details: 38000-45000 Yearly Salary

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