Counseling Director

Summary : The Counseling Director / Direct Services Director provides direct counseling to victims and directs the counseling department. This includes program development, education on the effects of trauma and sexual assault and working as a member of the victim services leadership team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Provide individual and group counseling to victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and other violent crime.
• Provide individual and group counseling to significant others of victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, homicide, and other violent crime.
• Recruit, train, supervise and evaluate counseling coordinator, clinicians, and administrative assistant.
• Responsible for interfacing with directors of all victim service programs to assure the continued provision of appropriate and adequate awareness, access, and advocacy to all program service recipients.
• Oversee client waiting list
• Provide informal counseling consultation to other providers when requested
• Stay current on legislative and policy issues that affect our counseling work
• Continually assess departmental training and educational needs
• Coordinate and conduct weekly Counseling Hour meetings / trainings, in-service trainings, and other ongoing counseling training opportunities
• Provide trainings and technical assistance to internal and external providers as needed.
• Provide counseling information and resources for other VS departments as needed
• Help write and review applications for VS grants as needed
• Ensure compliance with grant requirements as well as documentation and reporting of those requirements.
• Collaborate with partner agencies to enhance services for our clients
• Review all sexual assault files every six months per PCAR standards

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In addition to the duties listed above, this position also has physical components as listed below. The list is intended to give an overview of the position as performed by a person without disabilities. In conformance with the Americans With Act, the YWCA York will make reasonable adjustments to enable an otherwise qualified individual with a disability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without accommodation where necessary.