Behavioral Health Clinician Team Lead

Description

Easterseals Blake Foundation started as the Cerebral Palsy Foundation of Southern Arizona. Since then, we have expanded our services to better serve our community members. We are now one of Arizona's top providers of comprehensive behavioral health services, child welfare, and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We serve more than 40,000 individuals and families across 10 counties and support more than 3,700 children in Foster Care throughout Southern Arizona. Are you ready to make profound, positive differences in people's lives every day?

We offer our full-time employees the following benefits:

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Flexible Spending Account 
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Life insurance
• Voluntary Short-term Disability insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Accident insurance
• Employer paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program 

General Position Description: 

Assist with the day-to-day questions from the Behavioral Health clinicians (BHC). Responsible for comprehensive coordination of behavioral health services for adult and child members eligible for enrollment with public behavioral health services. 

Program Summary:

Evidence-based counseling offered to children, families, and adults. All services are designed to meet the needs of the individual and family, ensuring that members receive quality care. Trained clinicians focus on strengths to support members and families through life transitions, behavioral concerns, and/or behavioral health and substance abuse challenges Play-based therapy is utilized for young children.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assesses the member’s behavioral health needs and eligibility for services. Assists staff in developing and monitoring member service plans.
• Provides comprehensive intakes, assessments, annual assessments, and offers therapeutic and support services. Screens, evaluates, and schedules referred members who may need behavioral health services. 
• Coordinates communication between the member and other providers or community agencies to ensure coordination of care. This includes assisting with scheduling appointments, attending telemed appointments, arranging transportation, conducting CFTs and ARTS, and coordinating with the hospital for d/c appointments. 
• Provides rehabilitation services that include living skills training, counseling, and supported employment services to enrolled members.
• Provides support services like case management, personal assistance, family support, peer support, respite care, and transportation services to enrolled members.
• Conduct Rapid Response and/or Intakes based on the needs of the assigned work location.
• Performs crisis intervention and solution-focused interventions.
• Maintains EBF productivity, timelines, and quality standards set forth by EBF.
• Provides complete documentation and reporting of member behavioral health services in accordance with agency and funding requirements. Maintains member records in accordance with agency and funding source requirements.
• Assists with day-to-day duties and questions from BHCs as part of teaching and support for the team.
• Mentors new and current BHCs with higher level cases or when assistance is needed.
• Assists with reports for overdue reports or other reports when needed. 
• Provides a broad range of administrative and supervisory functions. Supervises assigned staff in accordance with EBF personnel practices including recruitment, training, performance evaluations, and day to day scheduling. Participates in the process of ongoing professional development. Maintains comprehensive communication among all contacts within the agency, members, and external agencies. Models professional standards and ethics in accordance with EBF Code of Conduct, Strategic Plan, Mission, and Vision. 
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma/GED with 2 years of behavioral health or related work/volunteer experience or an Associate’s/Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Health required. The education and experience level will determine the position level of Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) or Behavioral Health Professional (BHP). 
• Bilingual (Spanish) preferred. 

Regulatory

• Must be at least 21 years of age. 
• Current, unrestricted AZ driver’s license with no more than two (2) minor moving violations or one (1) accident within the past three (3 years). Three (3) years of driving experience required.
• Must be able to pass a criminal background check.
• Ability to o