BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TRAINING COORDINATOR - ARPA - BE

at Cook County Government in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Job Posting:Jul 24, 2024, 4:12:33 PMClosing Date:Aug 8, 2024, 4:59:00 AMFull-timeShift Start Time:8:00A.M.Shift End Time:4:00P.M.
Collective Bargaining Unit:NonePosting Salary:COMPETITIVE
Organization:Health and Hospital Systems

LOCATION: John H Stroger - 4897
SHIFT: 8:00AM - 4:00PM
Job Title

Behavioral Health Training Coordinator 
Department 

Behavioral Health

Job Summary
The Behavioral Health Training Coordinator designs, develops, selects, delivers, monitors, and evaluates training and education, implementing Behavioral Health learning strategies to promote health, well-being, and equity. The Behavioral Health Training Coordinator will incorporate recovery principles for Behavioral Health consumers of care.
This position is grant funded until November 30, 2026
Typical Duties
*Collaborates with stakeholders, including the Organizational and Workforce Development Department, to prioritize workforce needs based on input from the community and providers.
*Plans, implements, and evaluates Behavioral Health education initiatives aimed at improving healthcare access and equity, developing best practices for co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions, building a comprehensive suicide prevention program, honoring lived experience in employment, creating trauma-informed systems of care, decreasing stigma, and increasing prevention and early intervention efforts.
*Works with various CCH behavioral health programs to develop internship and trainee programs, supporting the growth of future professionals.
*Designs, develops, or selects, monitors, assigns, tracks, and evaluates CCH behavioral health employee training courses and learning content.
*Coordinates the production of educational materials and develops and maintains learning materials, including job aids, to be added to the CCH Learning Management System (LMS).
*Trains staff to identify, prevent, and de-escalate crises, as well as on behavioral health best practices.
*Writes up learning paths and course overviews to be uploaded onto the CCH Learning Management System to enable enrollment and record-keeping
*Creates communications needed for each course or program and sets up training with other departments for behavioral health staff, such as BLS and learning how to take vital signs.
*Collaborates to develop, implement, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure staff adherence after training.
*Coaches others in the development of performance improvement activities for behavioral health care quality, with an emphasis on process design and measurement.
*Performs administrative duties related to responsibilities and attends staff meetings and current training sessions for professional skill development.
*Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications
*Master's degree from an accredited college or university is required (Official transcript is due at the time of interview)
*Independent behavioral health license (i.e., LCPC, LPC, LCSW, LSW, RN, etc.) is required
*One (1) year of working with Behavioral Health clients/patients is required
*One (1) year of Staff Training in a general hospital or behavioral health setting is required
*Must be willing to become a Crisis Prevention Instructor (CPI) instructor to train CCH staff at multiple locations is required
*Must be willing to become a Psychological First Aid Instructor to train CCH staff at multiple locations is required

Preferred Qualifications
*Master's degree in Education, Social Work, Psychology, Nursing, or closely related field is preferred (Official transcript is due at the time of interview)
*Working knowledge of principles of behavioral health, including Serious Mental Illness and program development is preferred
*Experience creating training materials and designing training curricula is preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics
*Excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills necessary to communicate with all levels of staff and a patient population composed of diverse cultures and age groups
*Ability to work with people of diverse backgrounds.
*Able to manage group dynamics in a training environment.
*Coordinates activities and projects.
*Operates with minimal supervision, as well as collaboratively within a team setting.
*Intermediate proficiency using Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
*Able to deliver training across multiple modalities, both in person and virtually and settings throughout Cook County and CCH
*Knowledge of adult learning principles.

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