Mental Health Specialist

About Us & Why Were Hiring

We empower children youth and families to flourish in vibrant communities.

• Child and Family Guidance Center (CFGC) established in 1962 is a leading provider of community mental health and social services in the San Fernando and Antelope Valleys
• Our mission is to empower children and families to achieve health and wellbeing through innovative mental health services.
• We serve thousands of children and families annually
• We are inspired by our staff of caring and committed professionals
• We are seeking passionate people to join our team

If our mission resonates keep reading.

• As part of our team you will join us in providing a continuum of prevention early intervention and intensive treatment services to children and families.
• We offer services in our offices at schools and in homes.
• Together we seek to create stronger more resilient communities
• Your role will center around changing lives extending our reach deepening our impact and building meaningful outcomes for those seeking help.

The Position:

We are seeking fulltime Bilingual Mental Health Specialists for our Northridge location to provide skill based behavioral interventions to clients within the Child and Family Guidance Center agency in an effort to support goal achievement. The Mental Health Specialist will implement the clients individual treatment and behavioral plans intervene therapeutically when a client is experiencing behavioral and emotional difficulties and complete regular documentation of these services.

What Youll Do:

• Responsible for providing skill building mental health services through implementing the clients individual treatment plan.
• Provides individual and group rehab skill building services independently or in conjunction with current mental health service provider.
• Closely collaborates with therapist to support high risk clients (danger to self/others).
• Provides clients with skill building intervention including but not limited to coping skills problemsolving strategies emotional regulation skills anger management skills social skills conflict resolution to reduce target behaviors.
• Participates in specific training to develop areas of expertise in different models of treatment including but not limited to IBIT cooccurring DBT.
• Provides clients and families with individual/group support in the office home school and/or community settings based on client need.
• Explores treatment progress and potential risk factors.
• Collaborates with caregivers teachers treatment team members and other significant support persons in the clients life to develop skills necessary to support client in goal achievement through psychoeducation modeling coaching and other behavioral therapeutic strategies.
• Hours: Monday through Friday with possible weekend hours
• Fulltime: 40hours per week based on the needs of clients/cases. Must be willing to work nontraditional work hours with flexible schedule early mornings afternoons and/or late evenings
• First four months of employment are fully onsite. Hybrid work options are available after four months of employment
• Salary: $21.00 $23.00 per hour (commensurate on experience)

Qualifications

• Bilingual Spanish/English required*
• Bachelors Degree in Psychology Sociology Child Development or other related fields.
• Experience with children and families in a mental health or related setting (i.e. community MH agencies schools group homes etc. providing behavior or skill building services individually and/or in group.
• Ability to work in a warm and supportive manner with children who have mild to severe behavioral social emotional difficulties.
• Ability to work with an interdisciplinary team form and maintain professional relationships and accept and utilize supervision from clinical staff.
• Mature responsible selfstarting organized person with excellent time management skills.
• Possess effective and clear verbal and written communication skills.
• Must have a valid California drivers license and a clean driving record.

Were building a diverse inclusive team

• Youre welcome here. We want CFGC to reflect the diversity of our community and flourish together.
• CFGC is committed to Equity Diversity and Inclusion and strives to create a diverse welcoming and supportive workplace

CFGC promotes professional development and a healthy worklife balance

• Educational Assistance Reimbursement
• Great training/learning opportunities
• Supportive friendly work environment that prioritizes YOU
• Hybrid work schedule
• Worklife balance flexible time off policies
• Committees and workgroups that always strive to make CFGCs workplace culture the best it can be.
• Premier Benefits including medical dental vision life insurance identity theft protection Tickets at Work discount services and even pet insurance policies!
• Employees in this role may be eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program
• And much more! Check out our full benefits summary job posting includes a summary of duties responsibilities and qualifications for this position. It is not a complete job description and is subject to change based on the needs of the center.
  
  

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