Support Specilaist Supervisor - Lafayette

Company: Behavioral Services of Louisiana, LLC
Location: Lafayette
Posted on: November 22, 2021

Job Description:

Job Description PROGRAM: Family Support OrganizationBehavioral Services of Louisiana, LLCREPORTS TO: Director of OperationsRESPONSIBILITIES: - Provide Direct oversight to Support Specialist - Complete weekly quality assurance measures. - Ensure that Support Specialists are producing effective documentation of all meeting with families - Maintain open communication with the Wraparound Agencies - Ensure that treatment goals and interventions from the Plan of Care are being correctly implemented - Marketing and Community Outreach - Conduct monthly staff meetings and supervisions with Support Specialist - Provide ongoing education and training to the Support Specialist as needed - Be able, or willing to learn, to use computer interface to complete documentation for billing or other purposes as needed. - Return phone calls promptly - Follow all safety rulesMay also be responsible for: - Providing individual Support Specialist services in the community. - Participating with the youths Child Family Team meeting. - Assists in teaching problem-solving skills, coping mechanisms and strategies for their youth's symptoms and behavior management. - Assist parents in identifying, enhancing, and establishing support networks, community awareness, coping strategies, to improve theyouths functioning in their social environments (home, work, school). - Teach parents skills that help improve the youth's self-management of the negative effects of psychiatric or emotional symptoms. - Assists parents in identifying, effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors (triggers) that lead to functional impairments insocial environments (home, work, school). - Help implement the youths Plan of Care on an ongoing basis. - Participate in collaborative meetings with Behavioral Health Services staff, other agencies or community and natural supports asneeded. - Communicate parent's status on a regular basis, including, but not limited to changes in effectively parenting or ability tounderstand/manage youths functioning, medical issues and all crisis and health and safety issues. - Be knowledgeable of and adept at producing effective, documentation of every contact with parent or other members that providesignificant support to youth. - Turning in notes on time according to policy. Document all no shows, and communicate all difficulties contacting clients with appropriateoffice staff.MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: - Has a minimum of a bachelor's degree in a human services field; or - A bachelor's degree in any field with two years of full-time experience working with family, children/youth or community service capacity. - Must self-identify as a current or former consumer of mental health services; and - Must demonstrate a minimum of 6 months in self-directed recovery within the last year; and - Successful completion of parent support training and Behavioral Services of Louisiana Required Trainings - Complete Parent Support Supervisor TrainingJob Type: Full-timeBenefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insuranceSchedule:
  • Monday to FridayEducation:
    • Bachelor's (Required)Experience:
      • Microsoft Office: 3 years (Required)
      • Customer Service: 1 year (Preferred)
      • Supervising experience: 1 year (Required)Work Location: One location

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