What are the responsibilities and job description for the Therapist position at Child & Family?
About Your Team
Your team is part of our Family Preservation program which family-based prevention and intervention for high-risk children and adolescents, and their families that focuses on issues affecting youth including substance abuse, conduct disorder, truancy, and related family issues.
What You’ll be Doing
You will develop professional local networks within the state and communities to help further family centered practice. The Therapist will work with clients and families to assign appropriate services based on a need.
Your Main Priorities
While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:
• Works with the families and initiation of services including provision of services defined as resistant or oppositional to services.
• Provides support to client and/or families sessions per the requirements of the assigned treatment model.
• Provides the services with a variance of days/hours designed to respond to the client/family needs/schedule.
• Observes appropriate personal and professional boundaries and adheres to FCT and professional code of ethics.
• Provides service or treatment plan that is based on an effective assessment, as well as provision of a closure and aftercare plan for clients and/or families.
• Maintains require confidentiality regarding client case materials in compliance with IFCS and HIPAA standards.
• Provide the collateral of the required documents per the specific contract and/or grant requirements or state and federal standards.
• Provides all services required by the referral agency and FFT.
• Maintains regular contact and responds to all calls and inquiries from the referring collateral.
• Participates in, and guides when appropriate, the monthly meeting or collateral team meeting (Child & Family Team or other designated contract expectation)
• Provides prediction of and education regarding the developmental stages and the behaviors expected as result of an internal value change treatment process.
• Provides guidance for the clients and families in their interaction with referring agencies, schools, and other community organizations as needed.
• Participates in and supports the FFT peer development process by respectfully addressing areas of concern for peer FFT’s professional development and team performance issues.
Who You Are
Requirements, Skills & Abilities:
• Master’s degree in social work or related field required.
• Must be license eligible (LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, LICSW, etc.), licensure preferred.
• Minimum 1 year experience in a similar role required.
• Knowledge of family dynamics, substance abuse, and/or crisis intervention preferred.
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
• Strong organizational, critical thinking and time-management skills.
• Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
• Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, proof of auto insurance and car registration.
• Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.
• The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.
Physical Requirements
Direct Service Staff (Travel as part of position):
This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.
Travel Requirements
Site location: Providence
Statewide travel required.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.
In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ communities, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.
Affirmative Action
Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experiences by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities LGBTQ communities and others.
o Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.
Your team is part of our Family Preservation program which family-based prevention and intervention for high-risk children and adolescents, and their families that focuses on issues affecting youth including substance abuse, conduct disorder, truancy, and related family issues.
What You’ll be Doing
You will develop professional local networks within the state and communities to help further family centered practice. The Therapist will work with clients and families to assign appropriate services based on a need.
Your Main Priorities
While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:
• Works with the families and initiation of services including provision of services defined as resistant or oppositional to services.
• Provides support to client and/or families sessions per the requirements of the assigned treatment model.
• Provides the services with a variance of days/hours designed to respond to the client/family needs/schedule.
• Observes appropriate personal and professional boundaries and adheres to FCT and professional code of ethics.
• Provides service or treatment plan that is based on an effective assessment, as well as provision of a closure and aftercare plan for clients and/or families.
• Maintains require confidentiality regarding client case materials in compliance with IFCS and HIPAA standards.
• Provide the collateral of the required documents per the specific contract and/or grant requirements or state and federal standards.
• Provides all services required by the referral agency and FFT.
• Maintains regular contact and responds to all calls and inquiries from the referring collateral.
• Participates in, and guides when appropriate, the monthly meeting or collateral team meeting (Child & Family Team or other designated contract expectation)
• Provides prediction of and education regarding the developmental stages and the behaviors expected as result of an internal value change treatment process.
• Provides guidance for the clients and families in their interaction with referring agencies, schools, and other community organizations as needed.
• Participates in and supports the FFT peer development process by respectfully addressing areas of concern for peer FFT’s professional development and team performance issues.
Who You Are
Requirements, Skills & Abilities:
• Master’s degree in social work or related field required.
• Must be license eligible (LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, LICSW, etc.), licensure preferred.
• Minimum 1 year experience in a similar role required.
• Knowledge of family dynamics, substance abuse, and/or crisis intervention preferred.
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
• Strong organizational, critical thinking and time-management skills.
• Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
• Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, proof of auto insurance and car registration.
• Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.
• The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.
Physical Requirements
Direct Service Staff (Travel as part of position):
This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.
Travel Requirements
Site location: Providence
Statewide travel required.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.
In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ communities, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.
Affirmative Action
Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experiences by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities LGBTQ communities and others.
o Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.
