Classroom Support Counselor Family Partner
Behavioral Health Network, Inc.

Job Info

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Apply your knowledge of child development and behavior management within local schools!

Join our team of competent and compassionate professionals as a Classroom Support Counselor Family Partner in the Springfield Public Schools partnership at Behavioral Health Network! Classroom Support Counselor Family Partners provide social, behavioral, and academic support grounded in basic trauma-sensitive principles to students and their caregivers.

Learn, grow, accomplish develop skills utilizing best practices to provide support for students and their caregivers to help them improve academically and socially at an elementary school. Attend trainings on de-escalation strategies, trauma sensitive approaches, and will outreach to families.

Program: An elementary school multidisciplinary team working with students, school staff and caregivers, under the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health Facilitating Student Access to Pediatric Behavioral Health Urgent Care grant.

Part of a collaborating team utilizing best practices, providing sound and culturally sensitive consultation to school staff with the aim to support students' psychosocial skill-building with awareness and professionalism.

Additionally, Classroom Support Counselor Family Partners provide telephone and in-home support and consultation to caregivers when needed. They will provide their knowledge of community resources and connecting families to these resources. They participate in BHN and school-required trainings, as well as weekly team meetings at the school and supervision through BHN.

• Responsibilities: What you will do
  • Work effectively as a Multidisciplinary Team member within an elementary school
  • Demonstrate problem solving ability in normal and changing conditions
  • Demonstrate a strength-based relationship with a parent/caregiver by improving the capacity of the parent /caregiver to parent the youth so as to improve the youth's functioning.
  • Engage parents/caregivers in activities that are designed to address one or more goals on the youth's treatment plan

• • Demonstrate ability to teach parents/caregivers how to navigate the child-serving systems and processes.
  • Demonstrate ability to foster empowerment and link parents/caregivers to peer/parent support and self-help groups.
  • Demonstrate ability to teach parents/caregivers how to identify formal and community-based resources.
  • Demonstrate competence in dealing with families from a variety of different cultural backgrounds.

Behavioral Health Network is a growing non-profit community behavioral health agency that has been providing services to children, adults, families and communities in Western Massachusetts since 1938. BHN provides comprehensive, outcome-driven behavioral health care. We are dedicated to offering high quality, affordable and culturally appropriate care to people of all ages and income levels in our constituent communities.

Qualifications/Requirements

Classroom Support Counselor Family Partners at BHN have the following qualities:

• • Basic knowledge of child development and behavior management, particularly in a school setting (required).
  • Experience as a caregiver of a youth with special needs and preferably a youth with mental health needs (preferred).
  • Previous experience working with children with challenging Social/Emotional/Behavioral concerns (preferred).
  • Demonstrated willingness and ability to treat challenging and diverse client populations (required).
  • Bilingual in Spanish and English (required).
  • Valid Massachusetts driver's license and automobile (required).
  • Basic computer skills, including email and the internet (required).
  • Bachelor's degree and one (1) year experience working with target population; or Associate's degree, High School Diploma, HiSET®, or GED ® and two (2) years' experience working with target population.

How do I apply to be a Classroom Support Counselor Family Partner?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please click "Apply for Job" from Kronos/WFD or visit our website at www.bhnworks.org and click on "Browse All Jobs" to apply!

BHN maintains its commitment to social justice and diversity and strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply.

**NOTICE**

In accordance with the BHN Mandatory COVID vaccine policy - all staff, interns, temps, residents, and contractors are required to be fully vaccinated no later than day one of employment. Medical or religious exemptions will be offered and must be approved prior to starting work.

The same guidelines noted above apply during flu season (defined as December 1st - through end of flu season as announced by the CDC) for BHN's Mandatory Influenza Vaccine policy.

Additionally, BHN is a Tobacco Free workplace. All Staff, interns, temps, residents and contractors agree not to smell of or use Tobacco or ENDS products while on paid work time or within sight of any BHN facility.

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