Child & Adolescent Behavior Specialist

Child & Adolescent Behavior Specialist

As a Child & Adolescent Behavior Specialist, you will work with children and adolescents who are actively involved in mental health treatment.  By meeting with clients and their families, you will develop a recovery plan focused on their strengths, support systems, and needs. 

You will provide services that consist of rehabilitative, environmental support and resources coordination considered essential to assist a youth/family in gaining access to necessary services and in creating environments that promote resiliency and support the emotional and functional growth and development of the youth. The service activities include: 

1. Assistance to the youth and family/responsible caregivers in the facilitation and coordination of the Individual Resiliency Plan (IRP) including providing skills support in the youth/family’s self-articulation of personal goals and objectives; 

2. Planning in a proactive manner to assist the youth/family in managing or preventing crisis situations; 

3. Individualized interventions, which shall have as objectives: 

a. Identification, with the youth, of strengths which may aid him/her in achieving resilience, as well as barriers that impede the development of skills necessary for age-appropriate functioning in school, with peers, and with family;

b. Support to facilitate enhanced natural and age-appropriate supports (including support/assistance with defining what wellness means to the youth in order to assist them with resiliency-based goal setting and attainment);

c. Assistance in the development of interpersonal, community coping and functional skills (including adaptation to home, school and healthy social environments);  d. Encouraging the development and eventual succession of natural supports in living, learning, working, other social environments; 

e. Assistance in the acquisition of skills for the youth to self-recognize emotional triggers and to self-manage behaviors related to the youth’s identified emotional disturbance; 

f. Assistance with personal development, school performance, work performance, and functioning in social and family environment through teaching skills/strategies to ameliorate the effect of behavioral health symptoms;

g. Assistance in enhancing social and coping skills that ameliorate life stresses resulting from the youth’s emotional disturbance

h. Service and resource coordination to assist the youth and family in gaining access to necessary rehabilitative, medical, social and other services and supports;

i. Assistance to youth and other supporting natural resources with illness understanding and self-management; 

j. Any necessary monitoring and follow-up to determine if the services accessed have adequately met the youth’s needs;

k. Identification, with the youth/family, of risk indicators related to substance use disorder relapse, and strategies to prevent relapse. 

This service is provided to youth in order to promote stability and build towards age-appropriate functioning in their daily environment. Stability is measured by a decreased number of hospitalizations, by decreased frequency and duration of crisis episodes and by increased and/or stable participation in school and community activities. Support based on the youth’s needs are used to promote resiliency while understanding the effects of the emotional disturbance and/or substance use disorder and to promote functioning at an age-appropriate level. Staff will serve as the primary coordinator of behavioral health services and will provide linkage to community; general entitlements; and psychiatric, substance use disorder, medical services, crisis prevention and intervention services.

Perks of this role:

• Primarily weekday role
• Bonus opportunities
• Stability and growth working for a national agency

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, or related field
• Preferred:
• Prior behavioral health experience
• Experience working with clients in a therapeutic treatment environment
• Professional and courteous communication (verbal and in writing) and knowledge of and sensitivity to culturally diverse populations.
• Valid Georgia Driver’s License and clean Motor Vehicle Record (MVR);
• Clean Criminal Background Check (no conviction or credible evidence of abuse, neglect, or sexual exploitation-child or adult)

What we offer:

• Full Time Employees:
• Paid vacation days that increase with tenure
• Separate sick leave that rolls over each year
• Up to 10 Paid holidays*
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefit plan options
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health, Dependent and Transportation Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee, Spouse and Dependent Basic and Optional Life Insurance
• All Employees:
• 401 K Plan
• Mileage & Cell Phone Reimbursement (or company phone)
• Pet Insurance
• DailyPay- daily access to your earnings without waiting for payday!
• SoFi at Work student loan refinancing
• Next Steps Financial Wellness program webinars and tools
• Company laptop and great IT support
• Verizon discount
• Dell discount
• Perks at Pathways national discounts on travel, shopping, and entertainment
• Training, Development and Continuing Education Credits for licensure requirements
• Opportunities for advancement!  As we grow, you grow with us!

To Learn More About Us:

Pathways @ http://www.pathways.com/mission-vision-and-values/  

Current openings @ https://www.pathways.com/working-at-pathways 
Pathways is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status or any other protected characteristic.
*- benefit availability may vary by State/County