Job Title: Adult Behavioral Health Coach
Job Type: Part-time; Hourly Immediate
Supervisor: Clinical Compliance Officer

Douglas County Community Services Board is searching for an inspiring behavioral health coach to facilitate our clients’ transitions to fulfilling lives. The behavioral health coach will be required to elucidate clients’ goals, identify salient resources and impediments, and then collaborate to produce actionable ideas that foster goal actualization. To ensure success, the behavioral health coach will be a strategic and communicative resource to all clients. Invariably, a remarkable behavioral health coach will exhibit non-judgment and empathy during consultations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Help clients identify their goals.
• Develop strategies and plans for working with each client.
• Identify internal and contextual barriers, and create action plans to reduce barriers.
• Teach useful emotional and behavioral regulation techniques.
• Collaborate with clients to develop action plans that center on the actualization of their stated ambitions.
• Gather information for behavioral health assessments.
• Evaluate clients’ advancement toward goal actualization.
• Encourage continued and sustainable progress.

Skills and Competencies

• Non-negotiable adherence to all pertinent ethical guidelines.
• Ability to encourage introspection, connection, and ambition.
• Non-judgemental, reflexive, and empathic.
• Decisive but amenable to change.
• Knowledge or ability to learn and practice trauma informed principles and practices.
• Knowledge of community resources.
• Ability to assess crisis situations and intervene appropriately.
• Familiarity with the DSM-V and diagnostic techniques.
• Effective listening, de-escalation as well as verbal and written communication skills.
• Must work well under pressure and act as problem solver and team.
• Ability to be flexible and work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Some experience with children required.

Qualifications
Master’s Degree in counseling, social work, psychology, or related field preferred. Minimum of one year experience in a community based environment.

Employment is contingent on passing a mandatory Drug Screen, MVR and Background Investigation.