The Department:
Children's Residential Program
The Position:
Rehabilitation Specialist (Full-Time)
Junior Blind is pleased to announce that it will be adding mental health services to its already enriched resource and service support for DCFS youth placed in our residential program. Mental Health services will also be available to youth approved for placement in our residential program but placed on a waiting list. Additionally, mental health services will be available to youth discharged from our residential program and returning to their homes or communities. Mental Health services will be provided by a multidisciplinary team.
As the Rehabilitation Specialist, you will work in the residential milieu and/or off-site in the community (school, neighborhood venues, and home) to provide children with family-centered, strength-based intensive case management services. You will assist clients in their efforts to build upon existing family and community support and resource systems and collaborate with team clinicians, psychiatrist, and mentors to ensure effective delivery of treatment plans.
You will also implement a high quality, comprehensive and individualized intervention program to assist children with appropriate behavior in their current setting. You will work with individual families on issues relating to the clients' individualized treatment plans. Provide intensive milieu, community and home-based family counseling and support services.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree, Master's degree preferred, in Child Development, Psychology, Counseling and Guidance, Early Childhood Education, Human Services, Nursing, Social Science, Social Welfare, Social Work, Sociology from an accredited college or university.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in a mental health setting.
- Considerable knowledge of child development, the dynamics of dysfunctional behavior in children, separation responses, methods and approaches to crisis intervention treatment, and child behavioral management.
- Ability to work cooperatively, creatively, and effectively as a member of a highly skilled crisis intervention and evaluation team.
- Must possess and maintain a valid California Class "C" Driver License and a good DMV driving record.
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