FIT Paraprofessional - Community Service Agency

The Family-Based Intensive Treatment (FIT) Paraprofessional is responsible for working as a member of a multidisciplinary team to offer a combination of intensive family therapy, care coordination, targeted case management and Family Partner support for youth under 21 who have experienced a Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) and meet other Medical Necessity Criteria (MNC). They are responsible to the Clinical Team Lead and the CSA Program Director.

Child and Family Services recognizes the power in Diversity and believes that Equity is a Human Right.$1 per hour Language Differential! (eligible languages include: Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL)
Child & Family Services carefully considers a wide range of factors when determining compensation including, but not limited to, prior experience, education, certification(s), license(s), skills and expertise, location, internal equity and other factors that are job related and consistent with business need. Our goal is to support, reward and compensate the entire individual. Depending on role eligibility, your offer may include a bonus or other incentives.

Therefore, final offer amounts may vary from the amount stated.

Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Work in collaboration with team members and the entire family, or a subset of the family, to assist with implementation of focused, structural, or strategic interventions and behavioral techniques to: enhance problem-solving, limit-setting, risk management/safety planning, and communication; build skills to strengthen the family, advance therapeutic goals, or improve ineffective patterns of interaction; identify and utilize community resources; and develop and maintain natural supports for the youth and parent/caregiver(s) in order to promote sustainability of treatment gains

Maintain positive working relationships with FIT team, including supervisor and clinician, in addition to other collateral contacts and community providers.

Support implementation of the clinician’s treatment plan to assist the youth and family in achieving the goals of that plan Provide coaching in support of decision-making in both crisis and non-crisis situations

Attend and assist with facilitating family therapy sessions

Facilitate individual sessions with clients

Assist the clinician in implementing the therapeutic objectives of the treatment plan designed to address the youth’s mental health, behavioral, and emotional needs

Make referrals as determined by the family, FIT team, and treatment plan Promotes linkage with outpatient providers by assisting the youth and family in their attending outpatient appointments. When requested by the family, and when clinically appropriate, attends and supports a youth and family at meetings related to the youth's behavioral health needs treatments in any setting

Support and help the family with the education system by attending school meetings and participating in the development of any school plans/IEP’s; and within other systems such as the courts, state agencies and community organizations

Using the treatment plan, identify and actively assist the family to obtain and monitor the delivery of available and agreed upon services

When requested by the family, and when clinically appropriate, attends and supports a youth and family at meetings related to the youths behavioral health needs

Promotes linkage with outpatient providers by assisting the youth and family in their attending outpatient appointments

Engages in robust discharge planning, that begins ists the youth and family in assessing and accessing other levels of care as…