What are the responsibilities and job description for the Child and Family Therapist position at Residing Hope?
This is a full-time, salaried position.
Do you believe that every child deserves a healthy, happy, nurturing environment in which to grow? Are you an individual who desires to dedicate your career to enriching the lives of children and families? If so, we look forward to you joining Residing Hope where you can make a positive difference to children and families in need.
How We Help Children in Need
At Residing Hope, we believe that children and families should be empowered to experience the transforming love of Christ through evidence-based care and holistic services. This is reflected in our work as we care for children in crisis, including those abused, abandoned or neglected.
We give love, hope, and a place to live to more than 500 children through group homes, foster care, an independent living program, and specialized therapy.
Why Residing Hope?
- Competitive insurance plans, including health, dental, vision, life insurances, and more
- Work life balance, including flexible scheduling, generous paid time off plans and ten paid holidays per year
- Retirement benefits with up to a 5% contribution match
- Educational tuition reimbursement and certification incentives
- Incredible training opportunities
- Discounted tuition rates to our onsite Montessori school
What You Need
- Master Degree in Human Services or related field from a nationally accredited college or university
- LCSW, LMHC or LMFT is required or license eligible and pursuing completing licensure within 1 year or less
- A minimum of two years of experience in social work, counseling or related area of experience
- Experience working with sexually reactive children preferred
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Does psychosocial assessment upon assignment of case
- Provides treatment planning and oversight for the behavioral health programming associated with implementing those treatment plans on assigned caseload
- Provides individual, group, and family therapy to the residents and their families
- Maintains case records
- Completes discharge summary at discharge
- Administers the Childrens Functional Assessment Rating Scale (Florida Version) on all children in assigned caseload
- Attends psychiatric appointments
- Under rare circumstances may attend court hearings, judicial reviews, or other legal meetings as necessary or required
- Participates in guardian Ad Litem and or case manager meetings/staffing as needed
- Arranges home visits for the residents
- Works as the liaison between the Home and the family
- Coordinates community resources as needed by individual residents
- Facilitates treatment plan review/changeover meetings
- Is responsive to staff and residents when there is a need for crisis counseling
- Meets regularly and as needed with direct reports to adequately lead the planning, implementing and evaluating of the services, systems and structure in the assigned cottage program
- Remains current and fluent regarding agency personnel policies and practices and manages within these policies
- Also serves as an on-call clinician for assigned residents
- Attends bi-weekly clinical supervision with direct supervisor
- Attends Clinical Department meetings for supervisory development sessions
- Coordinates with superiors to develop and implement staff retention strategies
- Ensures staff participation in team decisions
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Residing Hope is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race, color, religion, age, sex, disability, marital or veteran status, genetic information or sexual orientation/gender identity, place of national origin and other categories protected by law are not factors in employment, promotion, compensation or working conditions.
