About this role
Job Description:
Family Access Center is seeking a BHIS Specialist to join our team in the Council Bluffs and surrounding areas.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree and two years of full-time experience working in a mental health setting or 30 hours working with children in a mental health setting.
Essential Functions and Job Duties
- Provide skill-based interventions for individuals focused on reducing behavioral health challenges by teaching skills such as conflict resolution, problem solving, coping, impulse control, and relationship building.
- Teach skills in an individual, family and/or group setting.
- Work with the clients from a wide range of cultural, racial, and ethnic groups.
- Collaborate with assessing clinician regarding individual needs, strengths, and family functioning.
- Monitor potential child and family risk factors to assure family’s service needs are met.
- Respond to crisis as needed.
- Connect families to community resources and services to reduce recurring child abuse and neglect.
- Use evidenced based practices to work with families.
- Schedule continued service reviews or annual assessments with assessing clinician.
- complete required documentation, progress reports and discharge summaries within the allotted time frames.
- Adhere to mandatory reporter, confidentiality, and social work ethics.
- Yearly mandated training.
- Set-up and maintain files on computer systems to ensure case documentations.
- Collaborate with other professionals by attend staff meetings and individual supervision meetings or other assigned duties as requested.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Applicant must possess strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Time management skills.
- Ability to work independently.
- Knowledge of community resources and service providers in the service area.
- Flexibility and willingness to work days/evenings/weekends and be available for crisis intervention.
Benefits:
- Mileage/Travel .62 a mile
- Tuition Assistance
- Paid Time Off
- Holiday Pay
- Sick Time/Leave
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 401(k) plan
- 401(k) matching
- Referral Bonus
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