Behavioral Health Specialist en Growing Home Southeast Inc

Description

Job Title: Behavioral Health Specialist

FLSA Status: Full-Time/Salaried/Exempt

Reports To: Behavioral Health Manager

Location: Hybrid

Position Summary

The Behavioral Health Specialist plays a vital role in supporting children and youth with behavioral health challenges by delivering rehabilitative, home- and community-based services. This position focuses on equipping youth and their families with the tools and strategies they need to succeed whether that means improving daily functioning, building healthier relationships, or strengthening coping skills.

As a Behavioral Health Specialist, you will work directly with families to develop individualized service plans, provide evidence-based interventions, and support progress toward personal goals. Services may include behavior modification (BMod), family support (FS), and psychosocial rehabilitative services (PRS), all tailored to meet the unique needs of each child and family.

This role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact by helping youth increase their ability to thrive at home, in school, and within their community. You will collaborate closely with the Behavioral Health Manager for guidance and supervision, while maintaining the highest standards of confidentiality and professionalism.

Why This Role Matters
Children and families facing behavioral health challenges often need someone who believes in their ability to grow, heal, and succeed. As a Behavioral Health Specialist, you are that person. Your work not only helps stabilize immediate needs but also creates long-term change empowering children to build resilience, supporting families in navigating challenges, and strengthening communities as a whole. This is a role where your dedication directly transforms lives.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Provide ongoing case consultation to support youth in meeting their emotional, behavioral, social, cultural, and educational needs. Assist youth and families with accessing and coordinating community resources.
2. Participate in monthly individual case supervision, consultations, required trainings, and team meetings. Collaborate with team members to assess and recommend appropriate resources for youth and families.
3. Organize, facilitate, and document treatment plan meetings with all involved parties. Ensure youth and family treatment planning is thorough and that financial responsibilities for placement are coordinated with the referral worker.
4. Conduct quarterly reviews of treatment plans in collaboration with the treatment team.
5. Complete and submit all required documentation within stated timelines, including treatment plans, updates, reviews, progress notes, medication logs, and other client records required by state and federal guidelines.
6. Accurately document services provided, including Behavior Modification (BMod), Psychosocial Rehabilitative Services (PRS), and Family Support (FS).
7. Engage in internal and external communication, public relations, and collaboration with referral sources and community stakeholders. Represent the program in agency workgroups or initiatives designed to enhance treatment services.
8. Participate actively in staff and regional team meetings while demonstrating support for colleagues and promoting a collaborative team culture.
9. Maintain the required number of annual training hours as directed by federal, state, and agency regulations. Licensed staff must also meet the requirements of their respective licensing boards.
10. Manage a caseload of clients, providing 25–30 hours of direct service per week for full-time staff and 15–20 hours for part-time staff.
11. Deliver authorized RBHS services across a variety of settings (home, school, community), always aligning interventions with the client’s treatment plan, GHSE expectations, referring agency guidelines, and Medicaid standards.
12. Maintain service hours in accordance with the Medicaid authorization, the client treatment plan, and GHSE expectations.
13. Assist the Behavioral Health Specialist Manager and Intake Coordinator with gathering documents and information required for initial and ongoing service authorizations, treatment plans (IPOCs), and behavior modification plans (BMPs), as applicable.
14. Perform all other duties as assigned to support the mission and success of the program.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in human services or a related field (required).
• Master’s degree in social work or a related field (preferred, not required).
• At least 3 years of social work or related experience serving youth and families.
• Preference given to experience in foster care, child welfare, or family systems.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong understanding of:
• Developmental and attachment theory
• Child psychopathology
• Behavior management practices
• Family systems dynamics
• Ecological approaches to intervention
• Skills in group facilitation, family intervention, and linking families with community resources.
• Ability to work cross-culturally with sensitivity and respect.
• Strong organizational, time management, and independent work skills.
• Effective oral and written communication abilities.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to work effectively under stress while maintaining professional self-care and wellness.
• Commitment to Growing Home Southeast’s mission, vision, values, and core principles.
• Ability to foster respectful partnerships and maintain the practitioner’s helping role with families.
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation. Must pass DMV check and hold minimum auto insurance per GHSE policy.
• Willingness to work irregular hours when needed.

Location and Work Environment

GHSE delivers behavioral health services across South Carolina, connecting with youth and families in their homes, schools, and communities. This position is hybrid or remote based on your location, with travel to surrounding areas to meet the needs of clients.

This role offers a dynamic and flexible work environment. It requires availability during evenings and weekends to ensure families receive timely and effective support. While this is not a traditional 9-to-5 position, it provides the opportunity to make a meaningful, hands-on impact in the lives of children, youth, and families throughout the community.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Growing Home Southeast is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a diverse team and strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds to apple. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

Note: Neither this nor any other policy of the Agency creates a contractual commitment.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) of this position. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.

The company is a drug-free workplace and complies with ADA regulations as applicable.