What are the responsibilities and job description for the Community Based Therapist - MS position at Betty Hardwick Center?
The Community Based Therapist is committed to empowering youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends. Therapists will work in close collaboration with all involved to address the needs of youth who engage in problematic and criminal behaviors and, in some cases, substance abuse.
Therapists will empower families to address problematic behaviors and to help their youth ages 12 - 17 make life-transforming changes. Treatment progress is made through intensive interventions such as changing unhelpful family interactions, addressing the youth’s problems with peers and in school, and increasing social support, etc.
Monday-Friday, variable hours; will require after hours and weekend work as needed
Preferred Experience :
- Professional clinical licensure preferred but not required : LPC, LMFT, LCSW, LMFT
- Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies
- Therapy with children and adults using cognitive-behavioral techniques
- Couples therapy using behaviorally-based approaches
- Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
- Collaboration and partnership with community agencies
- Previous work providing in-home or community-based therapy services
QUALIFICATIONS :
Will be eligible for a one and two year step increase, depending on satisfactory performance.
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