In Home Therapy Clinician

In-Home Therapy (IHT) is a structured, consistent, strengths-based therapeutic relationship between a clinician and the youth and family for the purpose of meeting the youth’s behavioral health needs, including improving the family’s ability to provide effective support for the youth to promote his/her/their healthy functioning within the family. Interventions are designed to enhance the family’s capacity to improve the youth’s functioning in the home and community and may prevent the need for the youth’s admission to an inpatient hospital, residential treatment facility or other treatment setting.

$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 implement 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.
• Provide Family Therapy in a home-based and community-based setting.
• Maintain positive working relationships with IHT team, including supervisor and (Therapeutic Training and Support staff) TT&S, in addition to other collateral contacts and community providers.
• Develop and update required assessments and treatment planning documentation with youth and families within timeline per agency and program expectations.
• Utilize diagnostic skills involving practical knowledge of the DSM-5 and assessment tools.
• Provide diagnostic and treatment consultation to other agency programs and community agencies.
• Maintain production expectations and record keeping requirements.
• Participate in appropriate clinical and administrative staff meetings.
• Engage in effective Care Coordination and Collaboration.
• Participate in independent education and training opportunities.
• Provide psychoeducation and advocacy as appropriate.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Required Education and Experience

Master’s degree in psychology, Social Work or a related field from an accredited educational institution. Experience/interest in child/adolescent/family and intensive home-based family interventions with the ability to provide clinical care and support toward effort to prevent hospitalization and maintain youth safely in community.

Cultural Competency

Qualifications:

• Awareness of personal attitudes, beliefs, biases, and assumptions about others
• Knowledge of the various dimensions of diversity, including gender, race, and ethnicity
• Acknowledging that people from other cultural groups may not share the same beliefs and practices or perceive experiences in the same way
• Cultural knowledge of key populations that will be served to address disparities in service delivery
• Demonstrates positive attitudes towards cultural differences by showing respect and openness towards people whose social and cultural background is different from one's own
• Demonstrates…