Behavior Support Specialist

Tides Family Services is a nonprofit organization that is committed to providing comprehensive support and resources to children, adolescents, and families facing various challenges. The overall mission of Tides is to provide services and supports that allow youth to live in a community-based setting. An "Agency Without Walls" our services are delivered in homes, communities, schools...wherever our youth are.

Position Summary:

The Behavioral Assistant is responsible for providing in-home and community strengths-based services to clients and families, focusing on addressing behaviors with targeted outcomes within specified timeframes. They collaborate with an integrated team of caseworkers, behavioral assistants, and clinicians to develop treatment goals, provide resources, advocacy, perform routine assessments, and build relationships. Additionally, the Behavioral Assistant maintains crisis and trauma counseling services to ensure client and family safety, while also fostering collaborations with community partners to increase access to services. Flexibility to provide statewide caseworker coverage as needed is essential.

Essential Functions:

• Provide in-home and community strengths-based services to clients and families by addressing behaviors with targeted outcomes within an expected timeframe.
• Work collaboratively with integrated team of caseworkers, behavioral assistants and clinicians to develop treatment goals, provide resources, advocacy, perform routine assessments and build relationships with clients and families.
• Maintain crisis and trauma counseling and other services to help ensure client and family safety.
• Build and sustain collaborations with community partners, including health, education, vocation, legal and family intervention providers with the goal of increasing access to services for individuals and families whose needs align with our services.
• 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 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.
• Meet client engagement productivity expectations as outlined by program or supervisor.
• Provide caseworker coverage as needed statewide.