Behavior Support Specialist - Mobile Crisis

at  YMCA of Greater Seattle

JOB SUMMARY

The Behavior Specialist works within a treatment team providing behavioral support to youth and families experiencing behavioral challenges. Behavior Specialists can provide support to youth and families in school, at home, and/or in community environments. Behavior Specialist works in programs in the Y’s Behavioral Health Services division and suggests and implements behavioral intervention strategies for the client and family. Behavior Specialist often transport clients and monitor family visitations.
This position is with the Y Social Impact Center, the social services branch of YMCA of Greater Seattle (YGS). The mission of the Social Impact Center is to accelerate young people’s ability to build safe, successful, and happy lives. Every year, we serve 5,000 children, youth, young adults, and families across King County with programs that aim to strengthen young people’s ability to develop to their fullest potential through four strategies: reducing risk factors; navigating systems towards successful life transition; ensuring stability, safety and wellness in times of crisis; and building competencies and social capital. The Social Impact Center Y’s programs include housing, behavioral health, foster care licensing, violence prevention, education, and employment. Many of the young people we serve have had involvement in the foster care, criminal justice system, and/or homelessness systems. Applicants must have own transportation and be able and willing to travel around King County to meet client and family needs.

• Creates individualized behavioral plan for each client on caseload.
• Works collaboratively with treatment team to achieve treatment goals within a shared action plan.
• Develops and facilitates life skill and coping skill curriculum for youth in the child welfare system.
• Provides behavior management and intervention strategies for youth in home, school, and community settings.
• May help coach staff YGS branch staff on behavior management techniques and youth engagement in programs.
• Works therapeutically with clients and their parents on prescribed treatment goals.
• Facilitates service-learning opportunities with youth in the child welfare system.
• Provides direct client support in emergent and crisis situations for youth on their caseload. Supervises clients in parent/sibling visitation environment. Makes decisions to intervene in or terminate visits if necessary.
• Supervises clients in social and recreational experiences, providing short-term day-of respite to foster parents.
• Ensures clients are transported on-time and safely to/from all scheduled parent/sibling visitations, appointments, and other activities.
• Reports all critical incidents in accordance with YMCA Incident Reporting Policy & Procedures.
• Meets monthly and as assigned for clinical supervision and training.
• Adheres to YMCA program rules and procedures