Therapeutic Training & Support Staff

In-Home Therapy Position

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.

Child and Family Services recognizes the power in Diversity and believes that Equity is a Human Right. Hybrid schedule/WFH details: All sessions with clients are done in person. After an initial training period, employees have the flexibility to start their workday from home before going out into the community to begin sessions. Employees in this program will be expected to report to the office for staff meetings, supervisions, and to complete administrative tasks. Please note that work from home is a privilege that is based on meeting performance expectations. $1 per hour Language Differential! (eligible languages include: Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL)

This is an excellent position for someone who is working towards their clinical master's degree and looking for a more clinical work experience.

Job Responsibilities & 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;
• 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 IHT 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. 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. 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. (CBHI) Values and IHT Practice Profile.

Qualifications & Benefits

Required Education and Experience Bachelor's degree level degree in Psychology or a related human services field (i.e., LSW, Bachelor's degree in Education with significant experience, etc.). If the staff has a non-related Bachelor's degree, life experiences may be considered in place of related degree. Related experience can be considered without a Bachelor's degree with HR and program approval.

Travel Required Must have a valid driver's license and reliable transportation that meets CFS Driver Policy. Travel is required to provide services in different settings and to attend agency meetings, events, and trainings.