Behavioral Assistant

1 day ago


Newport, Rhode Island, United States Tides Family Services Inc Full time
Job Title: Behavioral Assistant

Tides Family Services is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive support and resources to children, adolescents, and families facing various challenges. Our mission is to provide services and supports that enable youth to thrive in community-based settings.

Job Summary:

The Behavioral Assistant plays a critical role in providing in-home and community-based strengths-based services to clients and families. This position focuses on addressing behaviors with targeted outcomes within specified timeframes, collaborating with an integrated team to develop treatment goals, provide resources, advocacy, and perform routine assessments.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide in-home and community-based strengths-based services to clients and families, addressing behaviors with targeted outcomes within expected timeframes.
  • Collaborate with an integrated team of caseworkers, behavioral assistants, and clinicians to develop treatment goals, provide resources, advocacy, and perform routine assessments.
  • Maintain crisis and trauma counseling and other services to ensure client and family safety.
  • Build and sustain collaborations with community partners, including health, education, vocation, legal, and family intervention providers, to increase access to services for individuals and families.
  • Ensure quality service metrics are met through ongoing analysis, case review, daily ECHO reporting, and accuracy of data entry into TFS ECHO platform or other reporting measures.
  • Serve as liaison/advocate between the program, community, and surrounding neighbors to build partnerships.
  • Support activities, services, and programs that uphold NASW professional boundaries and are culturally sensitive to clients and families.
  • Develop case reports or communication letters or other forms of contact to truancy court or other juvenile justice systems.
  • Attend and participate in all required program meetings, including program coordinator meetings, biweekly supervision with leadership, run downs, and all staff meetings.
  • Coordinate activities and resources that can benefit all clients and families within TFS.
  • Provide caseworker coverage as needed statewide.
Requirements:
  • 2-4 years of experience in human services, healthcare, and other non-profit agencies.
  • Demonstrates a safe, strengths-based environment while continuously using everyday behavior opportunities to teach, guide, and support youth and families with their goals and challenges.
  • Capacity for behavior management utilizing counseling techniques, program structure, guidelines, and crisis intervention, and to use metrics to ensure accountability.
Essential Roles/Experience:
  • Strong crisis management, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills, particularly when working with youth of all ages.
  • Managed in-home and community-based strengths-based services to clients and families.
  • Skilled in building relationships with internal team, stakeholders, clients and families, schools, law enforcement, and other community resources.
Degrees/Certifications/Licenses:
  • Bachelor's degree - Required.
  • Valid driver's license and registered/inspected vehicle - Required.
  • Bilingual; English, Spanish, Portuguese, Creole - Preferred.

Tides Family Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values our diverse workforce and encourages all mission-driven candidates to apply. We are a PBN Best Place to Work recipient, a Safe Zone Certified Employer, and a Veteran Friendly Employer.



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