Behavioral Health Treatment Specialist- Residential 1st Shift

The Treatment Specialist is responsible for ensuring the safety and well-being of those we serve by coaching, educating, guiding, and actively engaging them in processes and activities designed to build the skills necessary for effective self-regulation, communication, greater attention, and flexible thinking.

• Contributes to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for our clients, colleagues and community partners from diverse backgrounds and experiences
• Integrates principles of Trauma Informed Care in all aspects of work.
• Is sensitive to the children’s culture and socioeconomic characteristics that delivers the best possible care to the youth and families served.
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation of services and/or critical incidents provided in accordance with agency and regulatory standards.
• Ensure regulatory and agency compliance is met at all times.
• Assist with a child’s physical care and hygiene, behavior management, and treatment planning and implementation.
• Utilize approved trauma-informed and evidence-based treatment techniques.
• Assist with planning for school, summer programming and special events.
• Promote parental involvement.
• Provide crisis intervention as necessary.
• Assist in the facilitation of Day Treatment programming.
• Serve as a positive role model to clients while promoting pro-social behavior.
• May assist with the administration of medication for youth as needed.
• May transport children upon request of supervisor.
• Ensure a safe, structured environment free from physical, verbal or emotional abuse for each child.
• Provide coverage for programming as needed across the agency.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Education and/or Experience: HS Diploma required, plus 3 years of childcare or behavioral health experience required. Bachelor’s degree preferred in social services, psychology, or related field preferred. Possess a basic understanding of child development.

Licenses: A valid driver’s license, valid automobile insurance and valid automobile registration is required. Must be insurable by St. Vincent Family Center’s insurance carrier.

Communication Skills: Must be able to communicate client and program-related information effectively through verbal, written and computer. Must also have the ability to communicate with diverse audiences both internal and external to the agency.

Mathematical Skills: Basic mathematical skills required.

Technical Skills: Proficiency with Microsoft Office products. Ability to read and comprehend complex regulatory documents.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to multi-task and solve complex human relations matters.

Ability to Self-Regulate: Must be able to self-regulate: to manage your emotions and behavior in accordance with the demands of the situation. It includes being able to resist highly emotional reactions to upsetting stimuli, to calm yourself down when you get upset, to adjust to a change in expectations and to handle frustration without an outburst.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; occasionally run; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; perform repetitive motion data entry; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 80 pounds and be able to physically restrain a client as necessary. Ability to complete crisis intervention training and successfully pass course for certification and perform techniques to a satisfactory level. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Moderate noise level with the potential to experience loud verbal or displayed outbursts from potentially distressed children seeking treatment. Work may be stressful at times.