What are the responsibilities and job description for the Adolescent Residential Treatment Counselor position at HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES?
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Description
Your Responsibilities
As a Adolescent Residential Treatment Counselor, your primary responsibilities include providing therapy and counseling portions of the treatment program for adolescent residential education clients. In addition, you will be:
- Meeting with clients in individual counseling sessions
- Facilitating weekly group counseling sessions
- Maintaining a complete and updated clinical record for each client, making all efforts to obtain all pertinent clinical, medical, educational and legal reports, meeting all standards and policies
- Attends school conferences, re-entry meetings or other scheduled school meetings
- Providing case management services, including responsibility for scheduling and facilitating client staffings
- Responsible for authoring psycho-social assessment, admission, and progress staffings and discharge summaries on a timely basis
What You Need
- BSW or BA from an accredited school in a social sciences program. Master Degree is preferred in a related field
- Grounded in an understanding of cognitive, physical, emotional and chronological maturation of children and adolescents
- Competencies in the delivery of evidence based individual, group, and family services
- Mentoring, teaching, and coaching skills in order to provide information, education, support, direction and oversight of children and youth with a mental health diagnosis and their families.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Basic computer/keyboarding skills
What Makes You Stand Out
- Team player who enjoys building, creating, and executing new strategies
- Detail-oriented and compliance-minded
- Trustworthy in managing sensitive situations and information; you are discrete, professional, and possess excellent judgment
- A positive, motivating, and encouraging personality
Knowledge/Skills
- Knowledge of human growth and development, behavioral theories and individual, group and family therapy skills.
- Strong inter-personal skills and have the ability to utilize and develop community resources.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Invested in the interdisciplinary treatment team process.
- Knowledgeable of agency policies and procedures.
- Grounded in an understanding of cognitive, physical, emotional and chronological maturation of children and adolescents.
- Basic computer/keyboarding skills, including ability to utilize email in a courteous and constructive manner
Competitive benefits package for full-time employees working 30 hours a week:
- Health insurance (up to 79% employer paid)
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) with profit sharing and employer match
- Paid time off (accrue up to 80 hours during first year of employment; increases based on tenure with agency)
- 10 paid holidays
- 80 hours sick time
- 2 wellness days
- Staff development and training
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligibility for federal student loans
- Employer paid CEU's through Relias
- On-site primary care
- PerkSpot- employee discount program
- MeMD- virtual health provider for you and your family
- Free talk therapy
- $0 Telehealth/urgent care
- Discounted psychiatry
- Employee assistance program
- Advancement opportunities
About the Organization
Hillcrest Family Services is a non-profit organization that assists adults and children in need of help. Every day, Hillcrest builds confidence in hundreds of people and families. We strive to be a leading provider in supporting brain health and wellness. We are a place where compassion is commonplace. Where our passion soars and faith restores.
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