TIP Facilitator - Auburn, CA

DescriptionOVERVIEW: 
The Transition Facilitator implements the core functions of the TIP Model to 15 youth and young adults ages 14-24 with mental health challenges in Western Placer County.  The Facilitator ensures the continuity of planning, services and supports by working directly with young people and his/her support team in order to help facilitate the young person’s future through the identification and attainment of the youth’s goals.  
 
DIRECT REPORTS:  
 

• None

 
QUALIFICATIONS:
        Required
 

1. Bachelor's Degree in Behavioral or Social Sciences field
2. Minimum of 1-3 years’ experience working with individuals with emotional/behavioral difficulties
3. Knowledge/skills/abilities in the unique needs of transition age youth

 
Preferred
 

1. Master's Degree in Behavioral or Social Sciences field

 
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE (but not limited to):
 

1. Carry a caseload of 15 youth and young adults, ages14-24 who struggle with mental health and/or behavioral challenges.
2. Facilitate support team meetings at the convenience of the team utilizing the TIP Model philosophy.
3. Engage young people as well as their support teams in the process of planning for the individual’s future utilizing culture and age-appropriate, individualized services and resources built on the team’s strengths across various life domains to include: employment/career, educational opportunities, living situation, personal effectiveness and wellbeing, and community-life functioning
4. Develop and model skills such as: problem solving, decision-making, goal setting, advocacy, assertiveness, interdependence while simultaneously allowing individuals to experience natural consequences.
5. Coach/teach life skills (such as: symptom management) which coincide with the youth’s individualized goals
6. Help to ensure a safety net by involving formal and informal supports who will be able to continue assist/guide the individual beyond involvement in the program.
7. Complete necessary documentation to include: assessments, intake, generating reports, session write-ups, tracking outcomes, data entry into computerized charting system and keeping paper-based charts.
8. Provide needed transportation to enable a youth to participate in his/her support team meetings as needed.
9. Collaborate and coordinate within Unity Care and other community and county resources in order to better serve assigned caseload.
10. Provide oversight and direction to interns/volunteers/mentors that assist with casework.
11. Attend staff meetings and trainings as identified by supervisor/contracting agency.
12. Other duties as assigned.

 
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.   The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
 
 

1. Ability to read and interpret documents and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
2. Ability to speak effectively before groups of students or employees of organization
3. Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
4. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
5. Ability to identify negative disruptive behaviors and redirect behavior using mediation techniques
6. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell.
7. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
8. The employee may be required to make and/or receive physical contact in the process of delivering First Aid/CPR or Handle with Care, or in training to those methods.
9. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
10. Ability to get CPR and First Aid certificate within 30 days of start date, and maintain a current certificate
11. Must clear a Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) background check including fingerprinting before start date and maintain clearance
12. Must clear a health screening, including TB before start date and maintain clearance
13. Must be at least 21 years of age and able to work in a Community Care Licensed Facility
14. Must be able to drive, have a valid driver’s license, clean driving record and maintain a clean driving record.
15. Meet and maintain the minimum vehicle liability and property insurance limits (in order to be insured by our insurance carrier for transportation of residents)

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