Group Facilitator

Title: Group Facilitator

Reports To: Clinical Director

Supervises: No Supervisees

POSITION SUMMARY:

Under the direction of the Clinical Director, the Group Facilitator provides mental health services to clients referred for assessment and assistance with the goal of facilitating and promoting appropriate behavioral health and personal growth. The Group Facilitator oversees the development and implementation of their assigned group subject ensuring all curriculum follows PLRR policies and procedures and reflects PLRR missions, visions, and goals.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND JOB DUTIES:

Any one position may not include all the listed duties, nor do all the listed.

examples include all tasks that may be found in positions within this classification.

• Provides services with adults through group therapy services.
• Completes required documentation including records, reports, and case histories.
• Develops and maintains behavioral health programs including therapy.

goals to meet client needs.

• Refers clients to other public/private community agencies if necessary.
• Performs related duties as required.

Key Competencies

• Written Communication skills
• Oral Communication Skills
• Analytical Thinking
• Diagnostic Information Gathering
• Results Orientation
• Problem solving
• Diagnostic Information Gathering
• Thoroughness (Attention to detail and accuracy)
• Flexibility
• Decisiveness
• Customer service orientation
• Teamwork
• Interpersonal Awareness
• Stress Management

Essential Physical and Mental Demands of the Job

The employee must be able to perform the following essential duties and activities with or without accommodation.

Physical Demands:

• Requires mobility and physical activity: Having an adequate range of body motion and mobility to work in an office, residential, or outdoor environment including standing and walking (even and uneven surfaces), sitting for extended periods of time, bending, twisting, reaching, balancing, occasional lifting and carrying of up to 30 pounds. Use of computer and telephone systems is required which includes coordination of eye and hand, and fine manipulation by the hands (typing, writing, and working with files)
• Requires the ability to defend oneself and clients in physically abusive situations using approved physical de-escalation techniques.
• Requires talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work. Talking is required to impart oral information to employees, clients, patients, and the public, and in those activities in which the employee is required to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Requires hearing: Hearing is required to receive and communicate detailed information through oral communication.
• Requires seeing: Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less and at a distance. This factor is required to complete paperwork for many of the employee’s essential job functions and to observe client behavior and activities in and out of the facility.
• The normal work routine involves no exposure to human blood, body fluids or tissues (Category III). However, exposure or potential exposure may be required as a condition of employment. Appropriate personal protective equipment will be readily available to every employee.

Mental Demands:

• Requires the ability to work and cooperate with clients, co-workers, managers, the public and employees at all levels to exchange ideas, information, instructions, and opinions.
• The ability to defend oneself and clients in mentally/verbally abusive situations using approved mental/verbal de-escalation techniques.

Working Conditions:

• Task to be performed in a residential, office or outdoor setting.
• Some direct contact with clients of all ages and levels of functioning
• Fast paced environment
• Potential for high noise level at times
• Some local and/or out of state travel
• Completion of job duties may require working before and after normal working hours. Regular attendance is required. Being able to work as many hours as is necessary to complete job tasks is required and essential duty of this position.

Essential Qualifications:

• Maintain the highest ethical and professional standard as to clients and employees.
• Ability to avoid all dual relationships with clients (any personal, financial, business, social or sexual relationship or other activity outside the context of the traditional therapist-client relationship)
• Meet all state and federal laws, regulations, and guidelines in provision of client services.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Outstanding critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• High level of initiative
• Ability to manage, direct and lead a treatment team.
• Professional demeanor
• Knowledge of Therapy methods appropriate to meeting the needs of clients and their families
• Knowledge of agencies and resources available to assist clients.
• Knowledge of federal and state laws concerning family rights and behavioral and mental health services.
• Ability to identify the behavioral and mental health needs of clients.
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary support team, develop and implement appropriate behavioral and mental health services.
• Ability to Maintain accurate records, meet established time frames.
• Ability to Provide behavioral and mental health services to clients.
• Ability to conduct group therapy sessions.

Education, Experience and License:

• Master’s Degree from an accredited college or university in social work, psychology, counseling, or equivalent social services field
• Hold or working towards licensure as a Mental Health Counselor or Social Worker
• Minimum 2 years’ experience working in the social services field i.e., substance abuse, residential treatment, etc.
• Attend regular professional education classes/workshops to continuously upgrade job skills or promote the image of the agency.

NOTE: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the Group Facilitator. These statements are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, tasks and skills required of an employee in this position. PLRR reserves the right to require that other tasks be performed when warranted (for example, by emergencies, changes in personnel or workload, corporate reorganization, or technical development). PLRR also reserves the right to revise this job description and this job description will be reviewed annually.

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TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:

Salary and work schedule to be established by the Executive Director.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $45,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Work Location: In person

Salary : $45,000 - $60,000