Counselor Together We Rise

Directions for Living•Largo, FL

2d•$80,000

About The Position

This is a professional clinical position providing counseling to, youth and families in the Together We Rise (TWR) program under the Families First Division. TWR was created as a result of the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) which is focused on keeping children safely with their families to avoid the trauma that results when children are placed in out-of-home care. The Together We Rise program provides an intensive Wraparound approach to engaging and working with families that have a child deemed safe, but at high or very high risk of future maltreatment. The goal of services is to remove the risk of harm to the child and prevent out-of-home placement through intensive, in-home intervention. Services are provided in the home, school, and community by a counselor and behavioral health case manager team who work intensively with the parent and children as a family unit to address the behaviors that resulted in the referral to the TWR program. The Counselor – Together We is a position providing clinical interventions directed at substance use and safety concerns that bring the parent and family into treatment, utilizing natural supports, community supports, and input and resources from other community partners or professional agencies. The Counselor functions as a member of an Integrated Decision Team (IDT) consisting of the Counselor, a Behavioral Health Case Manager, a Peer Mentor, and an IDT facilitator. In additional to clinical interventions, the Counselor is responsible for ensuring the parent has an individualized treatment plan that is strength based and built collaboratively with each member of the IDT team during the IDT session. The treatment plan, risk level, and clinical interventions are developed by the Integrated Decision Team that consists of the family, natural supports, and formal supports that care about and know the parent best. Each IDT member, including the parent, contributes valuable knowledge, expertise and perspective that informs the treatment plan and clinical response. In addition, the Counselor is responsible for reporting and discussing at IDT’s the parent’s progress/lack of progress, barriers, interventions, safety issues, or any other information important in resolving the substance use and safety concerns that bring the parent into treatment. The Counselor ensures services are delivered using standards of trauma informed care principles, and that plans and clinical interventions address issues regarding how trauma impacts family functioning, and that plans and interventions use trauma resolution skills. The Counselor ensures that services are Culturally & Linguistically Competent and are tailored to the unique culture of the parent. The Counselor will ensure that clinical services occur in the community at a place convenient and comfortable for the parent. This is a field position. The Counselor is responsible for meeting an annual client facing client care number of 1,316 hours annually. Achieving the minimum required weekly, monthly and annual client facing client care hours is an essential function of this position. Directions for Living is an essential services provider. All Directions for Living employees must be willing and able to provide vital support and essential services to the people that we serve in the event of an emergency, pandemic or other disaster situation.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Counseling, Psychology, Social Work or related field required
licensed or licensed eligible in one of the healing arts is strongly preferred.
Minimum of two years’ relevant clinical experience in working with at-risk populations.
Knowledge of DSM-IV and ICD-9 diagnostic codes.
Basic knowledge of psychotropic medications.
Must have sufficient clinical knowledge to provide clinical intervention with adults and children who manifest a range of psychopathology, utilizing various treatment approaches including individual, family play, and group therapy, individual psychopathology and normal childhood development.
Must have a willingness to learn approaches with which staff are less familiar as required.
Must acquire knowledge of community resources.

Responsibilities

Providing counseling to youth and families in the Together We Rise (TWR) program.
Providing clinical interventions directed at substance use and safety concerns.
Functioning as a member of an Integrated Decision Team (IDT).
Ensuring the parent has an individualized treatment plan that is strength based and built collaboratively with each member of the IDT team during the IDT session.
Reporting and discussing at IDT’s the parent’s progress/lack of progress, barriers, interventions, safety issues, or any other information important in resolving the substance use and safety concerns that bring the parent into treatment.
Ensuring services are delivered using standards of trauma informed care principles.
Ensuring that services are Culturally & Linguistically Competent and are tailored to the unique culture of the parent.
Meeting an annual client facing client care number of 1,316 hours annually.