Behavior Specialist Wadesboro
Behavior Specialist - Wadesboro - 110000ZN
Job Behavioral/Mental Health Professional
Primary Location United States-NC-NCWadesboro
Organization Cambridge
North Carolina MENTOR Founded in 1993, North Carolina MENTOR is a Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency (CABHA) providing a continuum of support and treatment options for children and adolescents throughout the state. Using a comprehensive treatment model and partnership approach, North Carolina MENTOR provides expert clinical assessments and develops individualized family and community-based services for each child they support. In addition, North Carolina MENTOR is a recognized Therapeutic Foster Care provider for youth of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as emotional, behavioral and medically-complex challenges.
North Carolina MENTOR is a partner of The MENTOR Network, a national network of local human services providers offering quality, community-based services to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families. With opportunities from coast to coast, when you join North Carolina MENTOR and The MENTOR Network, you'll make a difference every day and help to provide quality of life enhancing services to individuals across the country.
Description NC MENTOR is currently seeking an individual who is a
Qualified Mental Health Professional / Behavior Specialist per North Carolina state requirements to be a Team Member for our Specialized Day Treatment Service Programs. This individual is expected to learn, understand and implement the North Carolina MENTOR model for providing professional Mental Health Planning, should use a strengths approach to helping and supporting individuals served.
Key Responsibilities:- Provide 1:1 skill building interventions with children and teens
- Build rapport with families
- Participate in multi-disciplinary teams
- Implements and actively contributes to development, review and revision of intervention plans
- Maintains current and complete client records and documentation in accordance with MENTOR and regulatory standards
- Implement service interventions per regulatory rules and requirements (i.e. Day Treatment)
- Assists with all legal, licensing, regulatory and certification activities as needed
- Provide emergency and crisis support as assigned
- Provide parent education and support
Qualifications Requirements:- Bachelor's Degree in human services field and 2-year post graduate degree experience with population served
- Must meet qualifications as a Qualified Mental Health Professional for children
- Must have at least one-year experience with children who have emotional and/or behavioral issues
- Prior experience working with aggressive and oppositional children/teens preferred
- Other education and experience plus licensure as required by state
Founded in 1980, The MENTOR Network is a national network of local human services providers offering an array of quality, community-based services in more than 30 states to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families.
EOE/AAE
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