Rehabilitation Specialist

Position Summary:

The Rehabilitation Specialist ensures child/youth voice is heard during the Child & Family Team (CFT) meeting; ensures the needs of the child/youth are addressed in the development of Family Plans and service delivery; and helps child/youth accomplish goals consistent with Integrated Core Practice Model.

Essential Duties:

• Provides services to children, youth and families in their home, school, or other field location.
• Acquires, maintains, and demonstrates knowledge of Continuum of Care, Integrated Core Practice Model, and trauma informed care.
• Supports individual and family member decision-making in developing, implementing and coordinating an Intensive Mental Health Family Plan.
• Individualizes and ensures care to client families, primarily in their home, but also in other community-based and office settings.
• Conducts client outreach and engagement as appropriate
• Maintains an emotionally safe and supportive environment for families to express their concerns and frustrations.
• Actively participate in problem-solving and conflict resolution within the team and ensure that differences do not negatively impact clients and families.
• Connects individuals and families to community resources and supports individual and family decision-making in selecting resources.
• Encourage and support identification and inclusion of additional natural supports that emerge during Mental Health process.
• Advocates on behalf of the individual and family and encourages self-advocacy.
• Responds to crisis situations of families and coordinates with other team members to timely and effectively respond to such situations.
• Provides transportation of client and family and actively participates in appointments, court hearings, CFT, internal team meetings, and other meetings as needed and assigned.
• Prepares and submits timely progress notes, incident reports, and other documentation in appropriate formats and within time frames set by contractual or other requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

BA/BS in DMH approved degree such as Psychology, Sociology, Human Services, Criminal Justice or closely related field and a minimum of 1 years' experience working directly with the target population OR an AA and 3 years' experience working with the target population.

Additional Requirements:

• Must be able to work primarily in the field, which requires a valid California driver's license, proof of vehicle insurance, and maintain consistent availability of a working vehicle.
• To meet the needs of monolingual clients, bilingual proficiency in a threshold language is preferred and compensated with a bi-lingual stipend.
• Basic math skills to assist families with budgeting.
• Moderate English language proficiency to effectively participate in meetings, document activities, and develop Family Plans.
• High degree of emotional skills to read social/emotional cues, body language, and surroundings, to manage environment, and to be sensitive to clients and community.
• High level of reasoning ability to identify and respond to variables and to quickly solve practical problems.