Bilingual Family Assessment Clinician

Description

POSITION TITLE: Bilingual Family Assessment Clinician  

PROGRAM: Intimate Partner Violence - Family Assessment Intervention Response   

GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES:
Provide Intensive Family Assessment Intervention Response as delineated in the Intimate Partner Violence program standards, including crisis intervention, counseling, parent education and skill building, linkage to concrete services, and advocacy.

This position requires coverage for three offices: Waterbury, Torrington, and Danbury.

SUPERVISION: Supervised by the IPV-Fair Program Manager 
 

EXAMPLES OF RESPONSIBILITIES:

•    Provide a range of clinical, concrete and advocacy services to family members exposed to intimate partner violence that are consistent with the family’s values, learning styles, lifestyle, circumstances and culture.

•    Develop and maintain a positive, collegial working relationship with family members.

•    Assume responsibility for motivating families and employ motivation enhancement strategies.

•    Conduct comprehensive, strength-focused assessment process, including screening for trauma.

•    Actively use the Fathers for Change and Mothers and More clinical curricula to enhance each parent’s skills and capacity in communication around parenting.

•    Provide a supporting service array of interventions including safety planning, counseling, strengthening the parent/child relationship, parent education and skill building, trauma screening, and service linkages. 

•    Collaborate with family members and referents in developing intervention goals and service plans.

•    Advocate for and coordinate concrete goods and services (including transportation) that are directly related to the family’s goals, while teaching family members to meet these needs on their own.

•    Collaborate and advocate with formal and informal community resources and systems, while teaching family members to advocate for themselves.

•    Assess goal progress and families’ ongoing needs. 

•    Adhere to all clinical components in the IPV-FAIR model as outlined in the DCF Scope of Service.

•    Serve families who reside in the defined catchment area that are involved with Department of Children and Families (DCF) or DCF’s Family Assessment Response/Community Support for Families (CSF) who are impacted by intimate partner violence. 

Qualifications

Requirements

•    A masters degree in social work, psychology, counseling or related field and at least 2 years experience working with families. 
•    Must -->have a CT license as a mental health provider at the associate level (i.e.,: LMSW, LPCA, LMFTA)-->
•    Commitment to the IPV-FAIR model.
•    Ability to speak, read, write and translate in Spanish.
•    Ability to work with diverse individuals.
•    Ability to exercise discretion and maintain client confidentiality.
•    Effective verbal and written communication skills.
•    Ability to maintain the utmost confidentiality 
•    Valid CT driver’s license and vehicle in good working condition.
•    Automobile liability insurance that meets minimum agency requirements.
•    Familiarity with Word, e-mail and Internet.

Typical Working Conditions

•    Requires working flexible hours, including evenings and weekends as needed.
•    Work is performed primarily in client homes.
•    Requires extensive travel to client homes and throughout the community.
•    Involves exposure to tobacco smoke, domestic animals, household pests, and other conditions common to domestic environments.
•    Frequent contact with staff and non-staff (e.g., client families, referring agencies, community professionals, community agencies / programs).
 

Position is based in Connecticut. This is not a remote position

Salary : $63,860 - $73,130