Description

To be a successful Aftercare Therapist you must become able to do the following always:

1. Ensure a trauma informed focus on creating a safe and supportive environment for staff and those served through knowledge, sensitivity, respect, and a focus on resilience and recovery.
2. Provide clinical services for clients and families as directed.
   
   1. Provide family-centered treatment for children and families to support efforts toward permanency and maintaining stable permanency, including all required and directed documentation.
   2. May facilitate parenting classes and psycho-educational services as directed.
3. Provide short-term, intensive in-home family therapy while the family is waiting for community services to begin or if there is an immediate therapeutic need to ensure the child safety remains in the home.
4. Responsible for providing a range of therapeutic assessments and interventions as needed.
5. Provide services that result in the timely and safe achievement of agency and state outcomes relevant to the position.
6. Provide ongoing clinical services and serve as a member of the clinical team, participate in clinical supervision.
7. Provide clinical consultation and training.
8. Complete progress notes and other written documentation in accordance with company protocol.
9. Follow company Policy and Procedure and operate according to the Company’s Program Practice Guidelines.

How you will spend your time in this job:

• 75% Therapeutic Services
• 15% Documentation  
• 10% Company & Team Meetings

Requirements

To qualify for this job, you need to have:

1.          Education requirement - Master’s degree in social work, marriage and family therapy or psychology, or related field.
2.          License – BSRB license as an LMSW, LMFT, LSCSW, LCMFT, LCP, or LCPC.
3.          Work Experience – 2-4 years of experience working with children and families in child welfare, mental health, or related field.
4.          Strong understanding of family-centered practice and belief the family has an inherent ability to change, and parents are the most effective change agent for children in their care.
5.          21 years of age. Must pass a background check, fingerprinting, and physical and drug screening
6.        Maintain company-required training.
7.          Ability to travel throughout the state.
8.          Physical work conditions - Subject to inside conditions frequently, with protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature change.