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Employment Opportunities:
Full-Time Bilingual Mental Health Professional
Job Summary:
The Mental Health Professional serves as a liaison between children/families and systems, and provides a wide range of services depending on the needs and expectations of each child and family.
Goals:
- Meet productivity level as defined by management.
- Complete documentation as required by Supervisor and/or agency in a timely manner.
- Meet goals for opening and closing cases as defined by milestones provided by supervisor.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serves as a specialist to systems’ staff, providing information on a wide range of mental health topics.
- Provide Targeted Case Management (TCM) and Community Support Services that include, but are not limited to, monitoring and linking of services identified as determining the strengths, needs, abilities, and preferences of the child and family.
- Proved support to the individual child and family to help them cope with stressors related to serious emotional disturbance.
- Actively collaborate with other systems’ staff regarding assigned children and their families, and participate as a member of the multi-disciplinary team to advocate for the mental health needs of the child/family.
- Monitor child/family participation and progress in organized treatment programs to assure the planned provision of service according to the child’s individual treatment plan.
- Participate as a member of multi-disciplinary team in all treatment plan reviews of children.
- Collaborate with families and systems to develop Individualized Plan of Interim Care.
- Provide crisis intervention and critical incident stress management services.
- Maintain contact with children who are hospitalized/respite/residential and participate in discharge planning and necessary collateral contacts.
- Provide skill building training as appropriate and as a goal directed (anger management, communication, social skills)
Secondary Duties:
- Attend all required trainings and meetings.
- Participate in weekly individual and team supervision.
- Maintain updated statistics monthly.
- Working on specific assignments related to the agency as a whole.
Position Qualifications:
- Masters degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy or related field
- Bilingual Spanish required
- Two years experience preferred
- Experience with families and children is preferred
- Registration with BBS required
- LiveScan fingerprinting required
- Valid California Driver’s License
Fax Cover Letter and Resume to:
Human Resources
(714) 543-4398
Email us at:
jobs@brightfutures4kids.org
Mail to:
Attn: Erin Fleming
Child Abuse Prevention Center
500 S. Main St., Suite 1100
Orange, CA 92868
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