Administrative Assistant

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Position Summary:

Coordinates activities of the Child & Family Team to ensure the development of Family Plan, including facilitating child and family team meetings, monitors and documents progress, identifies resources and services, and oversees service delivery to client families consistent with Shared Core Practice Model.

Essential Duties

• Provides services to children, youth and their families to facilitate child and family team meetings.
• Acquires, maintains, and demonstrates knowledge of Continuum of Care, Shared Core Practice Model, and trauma-informed care.
• Individualizes and ensures care to client families, primarily in their home, but also in other community-based and office settings.
• Responds to crisis situations of families and supports/directs team members to timely and effectively respond to such situations.
• Attends and actively participates in CFT meetings, ISC meetings, internal team meetings, and other meetings as needed and assigned.
• Actively participate in problem-solving and conflict resolution within the team and ensure that differences do not negatively impact clients and families.
• Encourage team members to observe how each client and family member copes and to apply those observations to assist families to identify their strengths.
• Prepares and submits timely progress notes, incident reports, and other documentation in appropriate formats and within time frames set by contractual or other requirements.
• Documenting and entering records into electronic database.
• Act as the hub of coordination and communication with treatment team.
• Provide 24 hour Case Management including crisis response.
  
  

Work Environment

All staff in the Outpatient Mental Health program must regularly provide services in client homes, as well as in schools, alternative meeting sites, and in offices.

In-Home settings: houses or apartments, often upper story with no elevator; may not have heating/air conditioning, cramped quarters with limited privacy; community and home risk factors may be present.

Community settings, both local (such as school and recreation) and community-based to facilitate transports, court, and family visits. Low to moderate noise level.

Salary Range

$26.45-$34.39 per hour

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

BA/BS in DMH approved degree such as Psychology, Sociology, Human Services, Criminal Justice or

closely related field and a minimum of 1 years’ experience working directly with the target population OR an AA and 3 years’ experience working with the target population.

Additional Requirements

• Must be able to work primarily in the field, which requires a valid California driver’s license, proof of vehicle insurance, and maintain consistent availability of a working vehicle.
• To meet the needs of monolingual clients, bilingual proficiency in a threshold language is preferred and compensated with a bi-lingual stipend.
• Basic math skills to assist families with budgeting.
• Moderate English language proficiency to effectively participate in meetings, document activities, and develop Family Plans.
• Moderate computer skills to effectively document and to learn and use Exym or other electronic record systems.
• High degree of emotional skills to read social/emotional cues, body language, and surroundings, to manage environment, and to be sensitive to clients and community.
• High level of reasoning ability to identify and respond to variables and to quickly solve practical problems.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Ability to drive a motor vehicle without restrictions, often in heavy traffic and frequently long distances (one hour or more) to ensure safe transport to client settings and to safely transport clients to appointments as needed.
• Senses of vision, hearing and smell sufficient to regularly operate a motor vehicle, to visualize threats in the environment or risks to clients, and to operate safely in the field.
• Required to occasionally lift and carry 10-20 pounds
• Regularly required to sit, stand, climb stairs (1 or more flights) and walk while in route to and during family visits.
• Regularly required to sit and use computer in office settings