About the position
Established in 1899, Child & Family Service (CFS) is a community-based organization with a mission of strengthening families and fostering the healthy development of children. CFS has been a fierce advocate for children and families in the midst of social injustices and inequalities. Our statewide support, counseling, and therapeutic programs help individuals and families heal from trauma, prevent abuse and neglect, and can break the cycle of generational poverty. OUR MISSION: Strengthening families and fostering the healthy development of children. OUR VISION: Healthy, thriving individuals and families building strong, multi-cultural communities across generations. OUR VALUES: HOPE values: Humility, Ownership, Perseverance, Engagement. We offer an extensive array of benefits for our employee including paid time off, preventative health care paid time off, birthday floating holiday, volunteer floating holiday, 15 Paid Holidays in a Year (16 in an Election Year), Medical/Dental/Vision/RX plans, Opt-out incentive, 401(k), flexible spending plans, & more. Come join Child & Family Service and help us serve thousands in our communities!
Responsibilities
- Develops and implements service plans with measurable objectives based on clinical assessments.
- Provides individual, conjoint, family and group therapy according to treatment needs.
- Conducts outreach with home visits as the standard means of service delivery.
- Provides family life education and advocacy as needed.
- Utilizes a broad variety of diagnostic and treatment skills and techniques.
- May provide transportation for families on occasion.
- Performs required administrative tasks related to caseload, such as correspondence, reports, dictation and maintaining of case records.
- Allocates a minimum of 60% of available time to direct services.
- Uses regular supervision to improve performance and assure excellence in service delivery.
- Represents the program in community organizations.
- Coordinates and collaborates with public and private agencies to ensure non-duplication of services.
- Facilitates and records interdisciplinary team meetings.
- Provides case management and service coordination in conjunction with referring worker.
- Performs administrative tasks related to agency-wide data, such as daily and monthly activity reports, in a timely fashion.
- Maintains participant confidentiality at all times.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Masters' Degree from a school accredited by a recognized accrediting agency.
- Master's degree in Social Work or related Human Service field from an accredited school.
- A minimum of one year or 1000 hours of treatment with Families and Youth.
- Experience in areas of family violence, victimology and working with family related child abuse/neglect preferred.
- Good verbal and written skills, including therapeutic assessment and treatment, interviewing, recording and letter writing.
- Able to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends as required.
- Valid driver's license, clean driver's abstract, current no-fault insurance coverage and access to an insured vehicle.
Nice-to-haves
- Knowledge in the areas of mental health, evidence based/evidence informed and best practice therapeutic modalities such as Risking Connection-Trauma Informed Care.
- Knowledge in areas of victimology, sex therapy, human sexuality, sex offender treatment.
- Ability to advocate case needs to CPS and make community referrals as necessary if other needs are identified such as substance abuse, serious mental health, anger management or cognitive deficit/further assessments.
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Preventative health care paid time off
- Birthday floating holiday
- Volunteer floating holiday
- 15 Paid Holidays in a Year (16 in an Election Year)
- Medical/Dental/Vision/RX plans
- Opt-out incentive
- 401(k)
- Flexible spending plans
