Bilingual Youth Counselor (Substance abuse case management) - Spanish required

Working at Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS) means doing work that matters every day because of the difference you will make in the lives of children and families in Northern Virginia. NVFS’ breadth, depth and scope of services offer the resources and support to ensure that everyone in need, at every stage of life, maximizes their potential and fully contributes to a thriving community. At NVFS, we value the diversity of backgrounds, experience, perspectives, and skillsets that we collectively provide to our community, clients and coworkers. We celebrate and thrive on our differences and welcome everyone’s unique contributions.

Join the NVFS Family: We are looking to hire a bilingual Spanish-speaking S Youth Counselor to join our Youth Initiatives team at NVFS! As the Substance Abuse Youth Counselor, you will provide brief case management for youth and their families who have been significantly affected by opioid abuse and would benefit from assistance in accessing substance abuse related resources due to barriers such as language, literacy, immigration status, limited technology access or competency, low cultural navigation, and/or needs in multiple domains.

Services include explanation of available resources, assistance and support enrolling and engaging in services, and basic needs assessment to identify and address barriers to clients accessing services including through referrals and psychoeducation. Services are designed to be accessible to clients through location, language, and cultural familiarity. Services are provided in person at a location of the client’s choice to include the home and community.

As the Youth Counselor, you will provide short-term, therapeutic case management services to address the families' unique barriers to successfully connecting to substance abuse services.

Compensation: We want you to be well, have work/life flexibility, grow your career with us, and have the resources and support you need. Check out our comprehensive benefit offerings here in support of various dimensions of your wellbeing.

The starting salary is low to mid 50s.

In this role, you will:

• Conduct intake for all referred
• Provide short-term case management services to assigned case load, in accordance with the Service Delivery Model, including assessment, goal plan development, and
• Provide psychoeducation and intervention in accordance with clients’ goal plan and resource
• Provide one-time individual and group psychoeducation on substance abuse resources to identified
• Participate actively in team meetings and collaborative service delivery models with other team members to effectively address community, family, and individual
• Initiate and maintain collaborative contact with other agencies working with the youth and their family, including the referral source, and appropriate school personnel in order to effectively coordinate service delivery and monitor clients’ progress towards
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with other community services providing services for youth and
• Participate in regular individual and group supervisions as directed by
• Assure confidentiality policies and procedures are followed to protect the rights of clients, that reports to authorities occur in the mandated time frames and that critical incident reviews related to these procedures are completed and
• Maintain client files in accordance with program/licensing requirements and NVFS
• Prepare statistical and narrative reports as
• Participate effectively and positively in required Program and Agency meetings and

Your Background: We understand that you may obtain skills through a variety of professional, personal, educational, and volunteer experiences.

• Prefer one of the following:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Social Work or other human services field from an accredited college or university; OR
  • Associate’s degree with at least four (4) years of related work
• Must have at least two (2) years of related direct service experience providing:
  • individual and/or group services to youth and families,
  • case management, and
  • working with at-risk
• Experience providing services to immigrants, recently reunified families, and
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of substance
• Experience providing direct services to individuals in crisis strongly
• Oral and written fluency in English required; Spanish language fluency required. Additional language skills always
• Proficiency in usage of basic technological tools including laptops/computers, email, phones, and internet Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite required.
• Must be able to demonstrate and live the organizational values of Communication, Integrity, Respect, Collaboration, and Accountability.

Additional Requirements:

• Successful completion of background checks and Motor Vehicle Record check (in order to transport clients as needed) upon hire.
• Must have reliable transportation to visit client homes and other designated community locations.
• May be called upon to work beyond normal working hours.

NVFS is committed to advancing equity, embracing diversity, and promoting inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer. NVFS is an E-Verify participant and drug-free workplace.

NVFS values diversity in our workforce. We strongly encourage all interested individuals to apply, including people of color, all genders and gender identities, people of all abilities, LGBTQ individuals, other members of marginalized communities, veterans and national service alumni.

Experience

• 2 year(s): Related direct service experience providing: individual and/or group services to youth and families, and/or case management, and/or working with at-risk youth.

• Providing services to immigrants, recently reunified families, and adolescents

Education

• Bachelors or better in Social Work or related field
• Associates or better

Skills

• Language-Spanish
• Computer-Microsoft Office Suite