Behavioral Health Clinician ASW Youth Family

Job Details

Job Location
:
Skyline High School - Oakland, CA 94619

Position Type
:
Full Time

Education Level
: 4 Year Degree

Salary Range
: $34.93 - $42.28 Hourly

Travel Percentage
:
Up to 25%

Job Shift
:
Day

Job Category
:
Health Care

POSITION
:
Behavioral Health Clinician I, ASW-Youth & Family
DEPARTMENT
:
School Based Health Center (SBHC)
REPORTS TO
:
Behavioral Health Clinician III
LOCATION
:
School Based Health Center Sites
WORK HOURS
:
Full time, 80-100% FTE, 32-40 hours per week
STATUS
:
Non-Exempt, Non-Union

The SBHC Department partners with three school districts to provide comprehensive health services at seven SBHCs. The SBHCs reduce health inequities by focusing on prevention and youth empowerment. NAHC is looking for an Associate Clinical Social Worker (ASW) that will work closely with youth clients and families, school health care staff, and other agencies to meet clients’ multiple clinical and non-clinical health and wellness needs.

The ASW responsibilities include clinical intakes, assessments, medical department consultation, and crisis services. This position is active in developing, supporting, and implementing the wrap-around philosophy with its individualized, strengths-based, culturally-competent, and family-centered approach. Per organizational need, excellent communication, both written and verbal, in English and Spanish is required for this role. The Native American Health Center is an accredited institution and adheres to the standards of excellence by the Accreditation of Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) and the Commission of Dental Accreditation (CODA).

• Provide culturally proficient, treatment plan driven, behavioral health therapy for clients and their families. Clients will include children, adolescents, adults, and families who have been exposed to trauma and present with a wide range of behavioral health issues, and services may be performed on or off-site.
• Conduct behavioral health intakes and assessments in accordance with professional expectations, including biopsychosocial, cultural, diagnostic, and crisis/risk evaluations for the full spectrum of psychological conditions. Includes scheduled appointments, “warm handoffs,” and walk-in services.
• Conduct full clinical intakes. Intakes may involve and are not limited to scheduling; eligibility screens; providing program information; receiving member informed consent; facilitating behavioral health screens, risk assessments, safety plans; and making referrals as appropriate.
• Provide case management and service linkages, including facilitating urgent or emergency service referrals to medical/psychiatric staff/agencies, mobile crisis services, and the police.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and work closely with Nurse Practitioner, Program Manager, school faculty and on-site community partners to exchange referrals and provide integrated health care.
• Create, review, and update individualized treatment plans that are client driven, strengths-based, informed by recognized best practices, modified based on clinical need and client priority, and supportive of the integrated health team’s plan of care.
• Perform all clinical services under licensed clinical supervision. Participate in required administrative, clinical, and educational/training meetings including clinical case assignment conferences, rounds, team huddles, site Coordination Of Services team meetings (COST) and supervision meetings. This includes presenting and discussing case material.
• Coordinate and network with other agencies on clinical services, activities, and trainings.
• Document and track service activities in electronic health record systems and other data management systems as required in a thorough, accurate, secure, and submit within 72 hours of service delivery, in accordance with agency policy and procedure. Support all evaluation and data reporting requirements (including, as needed, introducing evaluation activities to families, attaining consent for participation in evaluation, and gathering baseline and follow-up data through the administration of questionnaires).
• Actively contribute to quality assurance and…