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Child & Family Services In Home Therapy Clinician in New Bedford, Massachusetts
Job description In-Home Therapy (IHT) is a structured, consistent, strengths-based therapeutic relationship between a clinician and the youth and family for the purpose of meeting the youth?s behavioral health needs, including improving the family?s ability to provide effective support for the youth to promote his/her/their healthy functioning within the family. Interventions are designed to enhance the family?s capacity to improve the youth?s functioning in the home and community and may prevent the need for the youth?s admission to an inpatient hospital, residential treatment facility or other treatment setting. \$1/hour Language Differential! (eligible languages include: Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL) *MA LEVEL GRADUATES ARE WELCOME TO APPLY NOW! Offers can be made pending verification of MA degree* Minimum Qualifications: Master?s Degree in psychology, social work or mental health counseling from an accredited educational institution Passion for working with children and their families Valid driver?s license and reliable transportation Responsibilities: Work in collaboration with team members and the entire family, or a subset of the family, to implement focused, structural, or strategic interventions and behavioral techniques to: enhance problem-solving, limit-setting, risk management/safety planning, and communication; build skills to strengthen the family, advance therapeutic goals, or improve ineffective patterns of interaction; identify and utilize community resources; and develop and maintain natural supports for the youth and parent/caregiver(s) in order to promote sustainability of treatment gains. Provide Family Therapy in a home-based and community-based setting. Maintain positive working relationships with IHT team, including supervisor and (Therapeutic Training and Support staff) TT&S, in addition to other collateral contacts and community providers. Develop and update required assessments and treatment planning documentation with youth and families within timeline per agency and program expectations. Utilize diagnostic skills involving practical knowledge of the DSM-5 and assessment tools. Provide diagnostic and treatment consultation to other agency programs and community agencies. Maintain production expectations and record keeping requirements. Participate in appropriate clinical and administrative staff meetings. Engage in effective Care Coordination and Collaboration. Participate in independent education and training opportunities. Provide psychoeducation and advocacy as appropriate.