Intensive Family Intervention Paraprofessional for Newton/Rockdale County - Full-time Position

The Intensive Family Intervention Paraprofessional position is focused on providing intensive in-home individual/family mental health skill building and case management services using evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches of care for children and adolescents at high risk of out of home placement or returning home from inpatient or residential treatment.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Providing individual/family mental health skill building services using evidence based and trauma informed approaches of care.
• Commitment to providing consistent, ongoing services to clients.
• Participate in coordination of care with a multi-disciplinary treatment team.
• Coordinating with a team to provide crisis intervention as necessary to enhance and restore functioning.
• Participate in weekly individual supervision with team lead.
• Meet or exceed agency required productivity and documentation standards.
• Maintain flexibility to work after-school hours and weekends to accommodate client needs.
• Be flexible to meet the scheduling needs of the parent/guardian.
• Travel to client homes and community locations as required, with willingness to commute up to 1 hour for client sessions.
• This position requires full-time availability and cannot be held concurrently with another job.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Travel required
• Other duties as assigned

Core Competencies

• Interpersonal Skills & Communication: Demonstrated emotional intelligence with an ability to balance an empathy forward response with families and throughout the organization. Enjoys working closely with other people to understand their concerns and seeks out the ways our workplace might address them. Able to use storytelling to advance a concept or idea.
• Professionalism: Confidence, articulation, ability to receive criticism and feedback well. Ability to resolve conflicts.
• Organization & Time Management: Organizes work, effectively prioritizes, and sets short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them. Aligns communication, people, processes, and resources to drive success. Organizes information and data to identify/explain trends, problems, and their causes.
• Teamwork & Collaboration: Contributes to common goal, maintains open communication with team members, asks for help when necessary, encourages involvement.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Self-aware, attentive listener, people-oriented, cognizant of bias, cultural intelligence; demonstrating a respect for divergent viewpoints; an awareness of and sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the population served, thereby contributing to an environment that is equitable, inclusive, and cooperative.
• Flexibility: Adapts effectively to change by accepting changes in processes readily and with an optimistic perspective of the resulting benefits; readily accepts new technology as part of his/her job and uses it to continually improve efficiency or the quality of his/her work products.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a psychology/social work/human services-related discipline with at least 2 years of experience required
• Past experience with Notenetic preferred, but not required
• Must be able to pass DBHDD background check (required prior to providing any services to clients)
• State-mandated training: Relias, CPR/First Aid, CPI - must be completed within the first 30 days of hire, Relias training is at no cost, the cost of CPR/First Aid and CPI are not covered by GFIT
• Knowledge of Medicaid/CMO compliance requirements preferred
• Willingness to learn new documentation and case management skills
• Receptivity to feedback/constructive criticism
• Schedule Requirements: Must be flexible to work afterschool hours and weekends in order to accommodate the needs of the clients served.
• Willingness to travel to meet with clients in the Newton/Rockdale County area and up to 1 hour of travel to surrounding areas.
• Bilingual skills advantageous
• Experience in substance abuse treatment or CADC  (Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor) certification is a plus 

*At least 90% of contact must be face-to-face

*Services must be available 24/7 through on-call arrangements

*Must live in Newton/Rockdale County to be considered