Mental Health Facilitator
Position Summary:
The Systems Integration Facilitator will provide interagency team meeting (ITM) facilitation and leadership that is comprehensive, highly skilled, objective and neutral, trauma-informed, and person-centered for assigned children, adolescents, and transition age youth with complex needs within the Bucks County Behavioral Health system. For all levels of care, planning is essential to keeping families informed and connected serving as a mechanism for supporting the professionals in working together with families in a solution-based manner. Facilitation assignments will be referred by the County and are intended to assist a youth, their family and team address a lack of progress or barriers to planning on a temporary basis.
Responsibilities:
- The Systems Integration Facilitator (SIF) will be the lead organizer and facilitator of the interagency team meeting (ITM) process for assigned youth up to age 21 and their families within the program.
- Engage families, youth, and system partners in exploring strengths, needs and barriers that impact the youth.
- Receive, review and determine program eligibility for new referrals.
- Facilitate an ITM planning process that is strengths based, objective, trauma-informed, and person centered. This may be in person, in the community, in a client’s home or over Microsoft Teams.
- Support the young person’s team through the process of moving toward a resolution that will help to determine the young person’s next steps, level of care and/or living arrangements.
- Document their efforts in agency EHR.
- Attend monthly meetings with county stakeholders to report on activities and system barriers.
- Create monthly invoice/reports for program.
- Assist program director in preparing the annual data report.
- Receive training in person-centered planning models as assigned.
- Perform additional duties or tasks, as assigned, or requested.
Required Qualifications:
- Master's degree in human services or related field.
- One or more years of experience with team dynamics and systems work, e.g. family systems.
- One or more years of experience working with cross systems education, e.g. D&A and the Act 53 process.
- One or more years of experience working in case management.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent leadership, partnering and customer service skills.
- Expertise with conflict resolution and management.
- Knowledge of Bucks County children’s serving systems.
- Confidence in public speaking.
Work Environment:
- Hybrid work environment both in a standard office environment, and remotely from home, as well as community settings to include client home, schools, court, doctor’s offices and hospitals.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Hourly rate of $21.50-$22.50 an hour
- Annual Increase
- Flexible Hybrid Work Schedule allows for Work/Life Balance
- Monthly Reward Structure for exceeding billing requirement
- Medical and Vision Benefits offered on first day of employment, 3 plan options offered by Independence Blue Cross
- Dental Benefits offered on first day of employment, 2 plan options offered by Guardian
- Ancillary Benefits offered on first day of employment, such as Accident, Critical Illness, Cancer, Short Term Disability
- Employer Paid Long Term Disability and $50,000 Life Insurance Policy
- 9 Paid Holidays
- 17 days of Paid Time Off with additional days added through years of service
- Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- 401K plan with company match and profit sharing
- Mileage and Expense reimbursement for travel and training
- Company Issued Equipment with Helpdesk support
- Clearance Reimbursement
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