CBHC Family Partner
Danvers, MA, United States
Together we can make a difference.
We're looking for empathetic individuals dedicated to providing quality support and care to others. With your creative problem-solving skills and Eliot's cutting edge Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) programs, we can overcome traditional barriersin the behavioral health system. Imagine having access to trauma-informed behavioral health services in real time? Or providing coordinated care continuum? Join Eliot and get to work alongside our talented and dedicated staff specializing in housing navigation, recovery coaching, case management,peer supports and other specialized stabilization services.
The Family Partnerserves as a member of the CBHC Team and uses their own lived experience in navigatingthe mental health system in the state of Massachusetts, to provide coordinated interventions that offer hope and support to families needing stabilization services.
Responsibilities:
Provide side by side interventions to families that focus on problem solving, skills training, modeling behavior, optimism and encouragement
Participate in daily Team Huddles and Team Meetings
Complete NOMS assessments and other assessments as assigned
Provide third-party billable services as needed and clinically appropriate within the context of the CBHC services
Assist the team and individuals in providing on-going assessment of symptoms and responses to staff interventions
Participate in the development of treatment plans for each family in which you are working with including triage/urgent care services and CBHC team-based services
Ensure that treatment goals are culturally competent, strength based, realistic, attainable and promote recovery
Participate in stabilization and triage supports/evaluations in the community focused on developing in-home supports to youth and families during a behavioral health emergency, with a primary focus on assisting the parents/ caregivers
Ensure compliance with the principles/policies of MCI to advocate for the preference of each family. Participate in evidence-based treatments for families and youth as assigned by supervisor and in accordance with Eliot's CBHC policies and procedures.
Provide interventions related to evidence-based treatments for families with the context of triage/urgent care, emergency response/evaluation and as part of a CBHC team
Provide follow along supports to youth/families post evaluation, through the connection to a CBHC Team
Qualifications: Associates or Bachelors degree in a human services field preferred and at least one (1) year experience working with children, adolescents or transition age youth
Experience working collaboratively with state agencies, consumer advocacy groups and behavioral health facilities
Must be a parent, guardian or caregiver of a youth with behavioral health needs. Ability to communicate with other parents in a supportive and non-judgmental manner regarding their needs.
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with both professional and non-professionals and have the capacity to work effectively with the service provider community
Ability to be an effective spokesperson/advocate
Ability to actively facilitate the development of local and community resources and engage others creatively in the on-going development of CBHC
Bilingual and bicultural skills a plus . Additional language capacity and/or cultural diversity highly desirable.
Rate:$23.08per hour
Mon-Friday 9am-5pm, some flexibility preferred for evening hours
Bilingual candidates preferred and eligible to receive a 6% differential if fluent.
Why Eliot?
At Eliot we are dedicated to restoring dignity and hope to the lives of the people we serve by ensuring access to evidence-based treatments, trauma-informed services and relevant resources. The fiber of our culture includes transparency, creativity, clinical sophistication, responsiveness, and compassion
Eliot is committed to identifying and dismantling barriers that prevent people with marginalizedracial identities from actualizing their full employment potential, assuming leadership roles, orfrom fully engaging at all levels in the workplace.