What are the responsibilities and job description for the Foster Care - IAFT Therapist - Licensed Professional - Fulltime position at INTEGRATED FAMILY SERVICES, PLLC?
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Responsible for providing psychotherapy to clients in an individual, family, or group setting to help reduce and manage symptoms. Provide direct clinical care, service planning and implementation. Delivery of services requires flexibility and ability to develop interventions that draw upon strengths, capacities and resources available in Northeastern NC. Must have the following Knowledge / Skills : Thorough knowledge of Social work, Psychology, diagnostic classification and the dynamics of outpatient therapy and mental health concepts. Normal and abnormal psychology; Evaluation and various forms of psychotherapy; intervention and patient counseling processes, techniques, and method. Mental health care facility programs and procedures. Addiction and dynamics of abuse; crisis intervention and suicide assessment methods. Considerable knowledge of treatment involving psychotropic medications. Ability to perform under adverse crisis situations. Ability to communicate verbally and in writing. Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with multi-disciplinary treatment teams, executives, professionals, administrators, and the general public Strong psycho educational and individual, group, and family counseling skills, Strong diagnostic and assessment skills, Strong family / caregivers training and consultation skills, strong service planning and implementation skills. Excellent problem-solving skills.
WORK DUTIES AND TASKS
Clinical Work : Essential Function, 60% of time
- Administers any specialized mental health programs for IFS consumers and provides initial diagnostic assessments and formulates a wide variety of treatment plans based on the sound integration of theory and practice.
- Directly assigned to provide therapeutic services to Intensive Alternative Family Treatment clients.
- Provides a range of psychotherapeutic services including crisis intervention counseling, and individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy to clients diagnosed with mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disability disorders.
- Provides resources assistance to patients in acquiring assistance through community and state resources.
- Adheres to all federal, state and local ethical and legal guidelines for the therapist licensure and in accordance with program standards.
- Conducts assessments and writes evaluative reports.
- Conducts psycho educational and psychotherapeutic groups
- Provide psychotherapy services for patients with co-occurring disorders
- Works directly with clients, parents or other care givers on functional problems that occur in natural settings. Focuses on assisting the client in preventing, overcoming or managing functional deficits in school, home or in a assisting the primary caregiver in acquiring the skills needed to assist the client in all functional domains : vocational, educational, personal care domestic, psychosocial, communication, problem solving, adaptive, etc.
- Co-facilitates multi-disciplinary treatment team, interviews patients and facilitates discussion around diagnosis and treatment planning.
- Monitors patient behaviors and reaction to medication as needed to avoid adverse side effects, makes reports to the staff psychiatrist.
- Prepares mental status reports.
- Provide clinical supervision to the Foster Care Director and other members of the Intensive Alternative Family Treatment Team in regard to therapeutic care for the foster care children served within the agency.
- Other duties as assigned
Administrative Duties : Essential Function, 30% of time
Professional Activities : Essential Function, 10% of time
QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
In addition to competitive salaries and opportunities for advancement, full-time employees are offered a wide range of benefits to meet their individual needs, which includes :