Therapeutic Clinician

Provides trauma‑informed, person‑centered care to children and adolescents and biological, adoptive and foster parents. Recruits, trains, and certifies foster parents. Opportunity for no‑cost postgraduate supervision for licensures such as LPC or MSW. Occasional paid emergent on‑call services after hours are required. Excellent organizational and communication skills are required. Travel within Colorado for training and case management.

Position primarily provides therapeutic services to individuals and/or families in La Plata and San Juan counties; offers professional case worker services, a full range of intake and ongoing case management, and serves as a specialist in areas such as sexual abuse therapy, play therapy, family therapy, home‑based therapy, or investigating difficult and/or complex abuse cases. Makes referrals to community resources and/or protective services;

maintains records, documentation, and reports related to services provided. Requires thorough, advanced knowledge of established theories, principles, and concepts of social casework practice, including in‑depth therapeutic approaches, techniques of affecting changes in behavior, casework intervention skills, and human behavior related to assigned program area(s). Functions independently, requiring only supervisory consultation, and has acquired a high level of expertise in the field.

Provides child psychotherapy, using play therapy, to children traumatized through family violence, physical abuse or neglect, emotional abuse or sexual abuse. Helps children remain in their own home, reunite with their family after placement in foster care, or be placed in an adoptive home successfully. Explains the process to affected parties, enlists their participation at appropriate stages, and maintains appropriate documentation throughout therapy.

Provides home, school, or office‑based family, individual, and marriage therapy for clients referred from child protection workers and community sources. Provides a safe, therapeutic environment so clients can learn more appropriate communication, anger management, crisis management, and problem‑solving skills with an emphasis on child safety and welfare. Maintains appropriate documentation throughout therapy.

Provides casework and therapeutic services to clients with underage children who are placed by the Court. Develops plans for timely permanency for children and maintains appropriate documentation throughout the process.

Provides ongoing case management and support services to children and youth in long‑term foster care or independent living situations. Develops and monitors plans for situations, makes arrangements for needed services, provides family counseling services to preserve placements and prevent moves, if possible, and maintains appropriate documentation throughout the process.

Provides therapeutic services to female adolescent victims of sexual abuse; meets with prospective group members to assess their ability and readiness to participate in a therapeutic group; provides individual services for those that need to meet outside a group format; meets with non‑offending parents of victims to provide information about sexual abuse issues and treatment; and maintains appropriate documentation throughout the process.

Provides therapeutic support to the therapeutic foster homes. The therapeutic foster clinician (ThFC) will provide intensive/extensive clinical assessment and treatment services to ThFC families, and the children/youth placed in their care with the primary goal of reducing and/or eliminating acute concerns in order to return to a lower level of care.

Provides pre and post‑adoption services; offers relinquishing counseling to biological parents; assesses viability of and offers services/referrals to adoptive homes; facilitates preparation and filing of paperwork related to the adoption process; makes recommendations about finalization of adoption; and provides necessary services or referrals after finalization to preserve the intact family.

Manages a specialized caseload of difficult/complex child abuse or neglect cases; screens and investigates child abuse or neglect…