Therapist Nurturing Connections

Foothill Family•Duarte, CA

About The Position

The Therapist will provide direct behavioral health services to birthing people, caregivers and children ages 0-5, including short term therapy, crisis intervention, and dyadic treatment focused on parent child bonding, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, and social-emotional development. The Therapist will also conduct behavioral health screening and participate in multidisciplinary care coordination meetings. When families require more intensive behavioral health support, the Therapist will initiate referrals to AltaMed or Foothill Family’s Internal Clinical teams to ensure timely access to high levels of care. This role is essential for expanding early intervention access and ensuring a responsive continuum of care for high-need families. The Therapist will document all services in the electronic health record system (EHRS) and will be supervised by the Program Manager to maintain alignment with Trauma-Informed, evidence-based practices.

Requirements

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist or registration with State of California and an active intern number as an Associate MFT or Associate Clinical Social Worker.
Master’s degree from accredited social work, marriage and family therapy, or psychology program.
Experience in providing direct service to individuals, families and groups.
Experience in providing child abuse treatment.
Experience in providing treatment to children with serious emotional problems.
Ability to effectively use of DSM V.
Good computer skills. Ability to navigate Foothill Family’s EHRS.
Good interpersonal skills, including the ability to work cooperatively as a team member.
Knowledge and sensitivity to cultural differences.
An understanding of child development, as well as individual and family functioning.
Valid CA Driver’s License and maintains insurability on the Agency’s auto liability policy (including a minimum of 2 years driving experience) and maintains the California state required auto insurance liability limits.
Bilingual English/Spanish skills required.

Responsibilities

Supports and promotes the mission of the Agency: Foothill Family empowers children and families on their journey to achieve personal success.
Provides high quality, compassionate and ethical therapy, treatment and case management to Foothill clients and their families.
Manages own clinical caseload.
Meets treatment goals for their caseload showing Outcome Measure Scores for clients indicating increase functioning.
Provides direct service to child, adolescent, and adult clients, including difficult to reach, traumatized, or disengaged individuals and families.
Drives to clients’ home, school, community or Agency offices to provide field-based services to clients and families as assigned and based on the families’ needs and availability.
Drives or arranges transportation for clients, as appropriate and necessary, to ensure service needs are met.
Provides care or services to minors or comes into contact with minors as part of their job duties.
Provides services relating to the administration of public funds or benefits, including eligibility for public funds or public benefits
Identifies and intervenes with the needs of abused and neglected children and adults.
Facilitates groups that engage and motivate group members in a manner that is beneficial to the group member and enhances his/her participation in the group. Leads discussions and facilitates group activities as relevant to group issues and topics.
Identifies symptoms of health, mental health and substance use conditions and responds accordingly.
Completes all required documentation, including charts, reports, client files and billing, within 24 hours of service delivery and in accordance with Agency policies.
Ensures documentation meets quality assurance, compliance, scope of practice and billing requirements independent of supervisory review.
Keeps abreast of all legal and ethical standards.
Assists intake, reception, clinical staff, and accounting in the collection of complete and accurate information necessary for treatment and billing.
Provides telephone counseling for emergencies both during office hours and outside of office hours for clients.
Provides a high level of collaboration and customer service both within the Agency as well as with community partners.
Communicates effectively with supervisor, co-workers and outside agencies.
Maintains current professional licensure.
Advocates for clients, as well as providing relevant information about community resources when needed.
Travels between Foothill Family sites for training, meetings, and other in-person interactions.
Attends in-person meetings and events at various locations within the Los Angeles County and surrounding areas.
Displays sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomics characteristics.
Performs work in a safe manner at all times and ensures that other individuals do not put themselves or others at risk.
Follows all Agency guidelines on confidentiality, reporting of child abuse and neglect, and recording in case records.
Follows all policies, procedures and legal mandates including HIPAA, client releases of information, protected health information (PHI) and client files.
Ensures performance and behaviors support the Agency’s performance quality improvement (PQI) goals and objectives.
Reports to work on time and maintains reliable and regular attendance.
Performs other duties as assigned.