Title: Child and Adolescent Therapist
Reports to: Clinical Director
Salary: $70,000-$75,000 per year
Status: Full-time Work Schedule: M-F, some evenings and weekends required
Job Summary
Hour Children (HC) is an organization founded to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children successfully rejoin the community, reunify with their families, and build health, independent and secure lives. Hour Children provides compassionate and comprehensive services approaching work in an anti-discriminatory, inclusive environment committed to HC's standards of justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion. The therapist will provide psychological counseling and evaluations for young people and children as they navigate family and peer relationships, educational and childcare placements, and community resources.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provides individual and family therapy to toddlers, children, and adolescents residing in Hour Children housing using trauma informed, evidenced based therapeutic intervention.
• Conduct intakes interviews, screening, assessment, service plans, progress monitoring, advocacy, and referrals for families.
• Participate in reflective supervision of assigned cases, demonstrating progressive ability to critically assess own clinical work and actively engage with supervisor to address areas in need of improvement.
• Complete and file all charting documentation according to agency standards, such as court reports, client updates, and any documentation needed for timely service delivery.
• Provide crisis intervention, and crisis stabilization when needed. Collaborate with in-house and community resources to ensure seamless integration of services particularly for those with acute and complex needs.
• Participate in clinical case conferences and intake multidisciplinary team intake.
• Consistently follow up with clients to promote engagement and retention in services to address barriers to utilizing services
• As needed, provide parenting education and training to caregivers and childcare staff
• Perform additional department or agency related duties or special projects as directed by supervisor.
Minimum Qualifications and Requirements:
• Licensed by the state of New York - LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, or LMFT
• Experience in facilitating dyadic and/or child-parent psychotherapy
• 2 to 3 years' experience working with justice impacted populations who have experienced complex trauma
• Excellent time management and writing and written communication skills
• Must be able to work independently and with a team
• Familiar with evidence-based treatment models such as CBT, MI, DBT, TF-CBT
• Must be able to deliver services in a culturally sensitive manner
• Computer and technical skills, specifically Microsoft Office Programs and Electronic Health Records.
• Experience working with criminal justice involved populations preferred and understanding of gender
responsive services.
• We are an organization that is choosing to require all our employees be fully vaccinated against Covid-19
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