Behavioral Health Clinician

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 Arizonas top providers of comprehensive behavioral health services child welfare and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We serve more than 40000 individuals and families across 10 counties and support more than 3700 children in Foster Care throughout Southern Arizona. Are you ready to make profound positive differences in peoples lives every day

We offer our fulltime employees the following benefits:

• Medical Dental and Vision
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Life insurance
• Voluntary Shortterm Disability insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Accident insurance
• Employer paid life insurance longterm disability insurance and Employee Assistance Program

General Position Description: Responsible for comprehensive coordination of behavioral health services for adult and child members eligible for enrollment with public behavioral health services.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assesses the members 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 solutionfocused 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.
• Participates in the process of ongoing professional development and meetings. 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.

Minimum Requirements: High School Diploma/GED with 2 years of behavioral health or related work/volunteer experience or an Associates/Bachelors 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 drivers 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 obtain and maintain an AZ DPS Level 1 fingerprint clearance card (employer provides).
• CPR and First Aid certification (Employer provides).
• Satisfactorily Completed Competency Checklist within 6 months of hire.

Skills/Job Knowledge/Abilities: Must have a strong clinical knowledge of development across the life span and knowledge of best practices when working with diverse populations with trauma backgrounds. Extensive knowledge of managed care systems AHCCCS/Title XIX medical assistance screening and ADHS policies and practices. Able to establish and maintain a team atmosphere of communication and collaboration for all that reach out to the Department. Must be selfdirected and be sensitive to cultural and linguistic diversity. Must be able to utilize DSM5TR to diagnose older children adolescents and adults and the crosswalk to the DC05 to provide diagnoses or diagnostic impressions for young children. Must remain calm and nondefensive with a supportive attitude during stressful potential crisis and crisis situations. Must be able to work in an extremely stressful environment where there are considerable mental and emotional demands. Must be able to manage high volumes and unpredictability of work. Must be able to remain flexible and reprioritize according to the changing demands of the day. Maintains a professional in appearance communications and actions. Be able to use excellent interpersonal communication skills. Possess a high level of computer proficiency.

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements (with or without accommodation): Normal office environment with multiple interruptions in person and through computer and phone. Field position visiting different sites or homes for member care. Will work outside and inside environments as needed. Daily travel to member homes and other locations. Interacts with employees and members of the public on a daily basis. Able to lift up to 50lbs to support member care. Visual acuity to read information from computer screens and forms and assess members wellbeing. Able to communicate verbally with members and emergency personnel as needed for daily operations. Hearing ability for communication in persona phone and/or other electronic methods. Manual dexterity for typing and writing. Able to stoop squat reach pull push stretch ascend and descend stairs stand and sit for long periods of time. Weekend and later hours are required. May be required to work additional hours or days depending on circumstances.

Additional Information: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all possible duties skills job knowledge responsibilities and/or qualifications. EBF reserves the right to revise the job description or to assign other duties to this position. This job description is not intended to create a contract or property right to continued employment between the employee and EBF.

Easterseals Blake Foundation and Aviva are an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative action employer that promotes a work environment of inclusion and diversity. We are committed to provide employment opportunities to all candidates based on their qualifications free of discrimination based on race color religion national origin sex (including pregnancy sexual orientation or gender identity) age disability veteran status genetic information mental or physical disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

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