Child & Family Specialist - Traverse

Category Child and Family Services

Description

CHILD & FAMILY SPECIALIST | TRAVERSE CITY

Persons in this position demonstrate a belief in Youth Guided Family Driven Care and a Culture of Gentleness. Employees in this clinical position are responsible for ensuring family support and training, continuity of services, coordination of supports and services, case management functions of assessment, planning, linking, monitoring, and advocacy. The Child and Family Specialist is an advocate and service broker for the child and family, a resource to treatment staff, and provides parent education and family training using agency endorsed EBP.

Participates in NLCMHA's multi-system team that addresses needs of children with SED and those dually diagnosed. Works closely with the SOC community partners, ISD/Schools, Health Care, Family Court, and DHHS. The Child & Family Specialist reports to the Child and Family Supervisor, as assigned. This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Provide direct clinical services to registered consumers, primarily mentally ill children, adolescents, and caregivers. Direct services are expected to approximate 30% of the normal workweek.
• Coordinate Person-Centered Planning. In doing so, attends to the total spectrum of the individual's needs, including but not necessarily limited to, housing, family relationship, social activities, education, finance, employment, health, recreation, mobility, protective services and records.
• Collaborate with consumers (and staff) assessing their needs, develop treatment goals, objectives, methodologies, timelines, and evaluate progress toward goals.
• Locate, obtain, and coordinate services outside and inside the CMH system as indicated by the individual treatment plan.
• Provides Family Training using NLCMHA endorsed EBPs.
• Provide supportive services to the consumer and his/her family.
• May participate in interventions, assessments, and other aspects of crisis services during and after hours as necessary.
• Intervenes when necessary to assure implementation of the plan
• Request, when necessary, review of the individual program plan by the individual's interdisciplinary team.
• Facilitate interdisciplinary team evaluation and review for assigned consumers, as indicated.
• Conduct orientation and annual psychosocial assessment of individual consumer needs.
• Evaluate, facilitates and monitors services and consumers progress in relationship to established goals and objectives in the IPOS, and document as appropriate.
• Provides Youth Transition Planning and Services.
• Establish and maintain an effective liaison between NLCMHA and outside providers.
• Participates in Quality Assurance case review procedures, including consumer satisfaction.
• Maintain current knowledge of mental health symptomotology, intervention and treatment strategies.
• Facilitate consumer’s benefits (e.g. SSI, Medicaid, SSB, and Medicare).
• Review and coordinate with team and provider on decisions involving hospitalization, respite and/or transfers/level of care changes. Implements plan of action.
• Monitor treatment plan follow-up, services to consumer and over-all conditions. Works with the providers to make necessary improvements. Follow-up problem areas as appropriate.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in a mental health related field from an accredited school with three (3) years supervised experience with examining, evaluating, and treatment of minors and their families in Social Work from an accredited university.
• A Registered Nurse with one (1) year experience in the examination, evaluation and treatment of minors and their families.
• Master's Degree in a mental health related field from an accredited school with one (1) year of…