Position Title: Therapist/Social Worker – In-Home – Child & Family
Company Name: Seven Counties Services and Bellewood and Brooklawn
Location of Job: Louisville, KY
Full-time or Part-time: Full-time
Contact Email Address: Kathy Moran, kmoran@sevencounties.org
Contact Phone Number: (502) 589-8600
Position Description: We are an intensive home-based therapeutic program, providing individual and family therapy to children and their families. We serve families in Jefferson County. Our caseload is about 8 clients, seen 3-4 hours each per week. The children we work with are typically age 7-17. These children have emotional/behavioral health diagnosis including anxiety, depression, PTSD, Reactive Attachment Disorder, ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and others. We receive our referrals from community partners including DCBS, JCPS and the court system, as well as our Seven Counties Services partners including our Crisis Stabilization Unit, outpatient therapists, school based therapists, and service coordinators. Your position will require 2-3 evenings a week, reliable transportation and the ability to be flexible.
Therapists work from a positive, strength-based, future-focused perspective . Our therapists have an unwavering concern for the well-being of the clients whom they serve, and an unflappable perspective that allows them to be calm, consistent, and optimistic. Above all else, our therapists show their clients happiness, kindness, gentleness, peacefulness, consistency, patience, and a self-controlled response to everything that is brought to treatment. The vision of our program is to nurture the growth, self-suffiency and well-being of individuals through strong therapeutic alliances.
Under moderate supervision, provides clinical services to assigned client populations.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Performs clinical services, including intakes and therapeutic interventions such as group, individual, and family therapy, and crisis intervention.
- Maintains and completes service documentation such as psychosocial assessments, case notes, case reviews, court reports, letters, etc., according to prescribed standards.
- Conducts case reviews and determines current and future treatment and treatment planning based upon resulting quantitative results and professional opinion of client progress.
- Collaborates with external agents including school officials, family members, and other health agencies regarding organizational programs and client needs and conditions.
- Attends and participates in staff meetings, treatment planning meetings, case conferences, and clinical seminars providing information relating to program administration and development.
- Writes correspondence on behalf of clients and their families such as court reports, letters of recommendation, etc., according to prescribed standards.
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Incumbents may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.
EDUCATION
- Master’s degree in social services field with certification or licensure in area of specialization (e.g., LCSW, CSW, LPCC, LPCA, LMFT, Marriage and Family Therapy Associate)
EXPERIENCE
- Three to six months of related internship or practicum experience.
- Basic knowledge of mental and physical characteristics of applicable population group (e.g., growth and development and range of treatment needed), psychotherapy, human behavior, treatment modes, and related issues.
- Basic knowledge of community resources and SCS services.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to handle a case load with varying levels of client disability and need.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS/REQUIREMENTS
- Position has some unusual physical demands, including occasional exposure to threat of bodily harm from clients or their families.
- Normal work tasks may involve exposure to blood, body fluids or tissue.
- Position at times may require incumbent to remain on twenty-four hour call.
- Reliable transportation for frequent travel.
Website Address for Applying Online: https://sevencounties.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SevenCountiesCareers/details/In-Home-Social-Worker-or-Therapist—Child—Family_JR-008270