Qualified Professional, Community Support Team

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Qualified Professional, Community Support Team

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Regular

If you are a positive and personable individual looking for a satisfying and fun opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of people with intellectual, developmental disabilities, and people facing mental health, and substance use challenges, join our team at RHA Health Services!  

Provides support to individuals with Mental Health (MH) or Substance Abuse Issues. In residential, school, workplace and community settings. These interventions are strength-based and focused on promoting recovery, symptom reduction, increased coping skills, and achievement of the highest level of functioning in the community. Staff ratio takes into consideration evening and weekend hours, needs of special populations and geographical areas to be served. Persons who meet the requirements specified for Qualified Professional (QP) status have the knowledge, skills, and abilities required by the population and age to be served may deliver supports within the requirements of the staff definition specified in the service definitions. Relies on supervision and direction to provide quality services.

Education, Licensure, and Experience required for the position include:
Must meet the requirements of a Qualified Professional

Physical requirements to perform essential functions of the job included:
Regularly required to lift 10 lbs. Must be able to lift a minimum of 15 lbs. Must be able to pull minimum of 10 lbs. Must be able to squat, kneel, crawl, crouch, climb, and stoop. Must be able to regularly use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. Required to regularly stand and walk. Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in CPR from the floor level requiring to work on hands, knees, bending, standing and lifting. Vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision. Must be able to talk and hear

Calling all compassionate and caring behavioral health specialists who are looking to partner with a community-based service provider offering mental health and substance abuse services where individuals live and work.

RHA Behavioral Health Services is looking for dedicated Behavioral Health Specialists (Qualified Professionals) to join our interdisciplinary healthcare team providing support to individuals in home, school, workplace and community settings.

In this dynamic and rewarding role, there is an emphasis on creating interventions that are strength-based and focused on promoting recovery, symptom reduction, increased coping skills, and achievement of the highest level of functioning for the client in the community.

Specifically, IIH services are delivered to children and adolescents, primarily in their living environments, with a family focus, and include but are not limited to the following interventions as clinically indicated:

• Individual and family therapy
• Substance abuse treatment interventions
• Developing and implementing a home-based behavioral support plan with the youth and his or
• her caregivers
• Psychoeducation, which imparts information to the recipients, families, caregivers, and/or other
• individuals involved with the recipient’s care about the recipient’s diagnosis, condition, and treatment.
• Intensive case management
• Arranges for psychological and psychiatric evaluations
• Crisis management

The IIH Team shall provide “first responder" crisis response, as indicated in the Person Centered Plan, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to recipients of this service.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to truly make a difference in the lives of the people that you serve then consider RHA Behavioral Health Services where we put people first!

Job Responsibilities

As a Behavioral Health Specialist, you will be responsible for the development, implementation, monitoring and revision to the Person-Centered Plan in conjunction with the interdisciplinary healthcare team.

Additional responsibilities of the Behavioral Health Specialist include:

• Facilitating relationships and serving as a link between the company, parents, guardians, local agencies and the community
• Minimizing the negative effects of psychiatric symptoms or substance dependence that interfere with the recipient’s daily li