BHIS Specialist

Family Access Center is seeking a BHIS Specialist to join our team in the Council Bluffs and surrounding areas.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree and two years of full-time experience working in a mental health setting or 30 hours working with children in a mental health setting.

Essential Functions and Job Duties

• Provide skill-based interventions for individuals focused on reducing behavioral health challenges by teaching skills such as conflict resolution, problem solving, coping, impulse control, and relationship building.
• Teach skills in an individual, family and/or group setting.
• Work with the clients from a wide range of cultural, racial, and ethnic groups.
• Collaborate with assessing clinician regarding individual needs, strengths, and family functioning.
• Monitor potential child and family risk factors to assure family’s service needs are met.
• Respond to crisis as needed.
• Connect families to community resources and services to reduce recurring child abuse and neglect.
• Use evidenced based practices to work with families.
• Schedule continued service reviews or annual assessments with assessing clinician.
• complete required documentation, progress reports and discharge summaries within the allotted time frames.
• Adhere to mandatory reporter, confidentiality, and social work ethics.
• Yearly mandated training.
• Set-up and maintain files on computer systems to ensure case documentations.
• Collaborate with other professionals by attend staff meetings and individual supervision meetings or other assigned duties as requested.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Applicant must possess strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Time management skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Knowledge of community resources and service providers in the service area.
• Flexibility and willingness to work days/evenings/weekends and be available for crisis intervention.

Benefits:

• Mileage/Travel .62 a mile
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid Time Off
• Holiday Pay
• Sick Time/Leave
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• 401(k) plan
• 401(k) matching
• Referral Bonus

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