Counselor Baby Children's Action Teams (Field-Based) Job at Directions for Living, Largo, FL

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  • Directions for Living
  • Largo, FL

Job Description

Salary: $80,000/year

We offer:

  • Medical (100% employer paid for employees only), Dental, Vision, Life, Short Term and Long-Term Disability.
  • 5 days of PTO
  • 16 Wellness Days and Holidays - Including the week of Christmas off!

Do you envision working for a dynamic, mission-driven organization which supports the community while fostering an employee culture of appreciation and fun? If your answer is yes, then an employment opportunity at Directions for Living may be a great fit for you! We offer an excellent salary and benefits package to include employer paid health insurance premiums for all full-time employees, PTO and paid company holidays, 403b retirement, EAP, and year-round employee wellness and appreciation initiatives.

POSITION SUMMARY:

This is a professional clinical position providing counseling and services adults and families in the Baby CAT program under the Families First Division. BabyCAT is a community service program that works in-home with parents that are seeking to understand their children's behaviors, keep their children safe, reduce the potential of incurring child welfare, DJJ, or other involuntary or court system involvement and focuses on parents or caregivers that have at least one child age 0-5.

The Counselor for Baby Children's Action Team is a position providing clinical interventions directed at safety concerns that bring the parent or caregiver to the attention of child welfare, and utilizing natural supports, community supports, and input and resources from other community partners or professional agencies. The Counselor for Baby Children's Action Team functions as a member of an Integrated Decision Team (IDT) consisting of the Counselor, a Behavioral Health Case Manager, and an IDT facilitator. In additional to clinical interventions, the Counselor for Baby Children's Action Team is responsible for ensuring the youth and family have 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 youth and family best. Each IDT member, including the parent and caregiver, contributes valuable knowledge, expertise and perspective that informs the treatment plan and clinical response. In addition, the Counselor for Baby Children's Action Team is responsible for reporting and discussing at IDT's the youth or families progress/lack of progress, barriers, interventions, safety issues, or any other information important in resolving the safety concerns that bring the youth and family into treatment. The Counselor for Baby Children's Action Team 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 for Baby Children's Action Team ensures that services are Culturally & Linguistically Competent and are tailored to the unique culture of the child and family. The Counselor for Baby Children's Action Team will ensure that clinical services occur in the community at a place convenient and comfortable for the family. This is a field position. The Counselor for Baby Children's Action Team is responsible for meeting an annual client facing client care number of 1,316 hours. Achieving the minimum required weekly, monthly and annual client facing client care hours is an essential function of this positon.

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.

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE/REQUIREMENTS:

  1. Master's degree in Counseling, Psychology, Social Work or related field required.
  2. 2. CAP certification preferred
  3. 3. Must take the Wraparound for Clinicians Training (3-hours) within 30 days of employment. Preference will be given to individuals who have taken the 3-hour Wraparound for Clinicians training.
  4. 4. 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.
  5. 5. Have sufficient clinical knowledge of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Focused- CBT and other evidence-based treatments.
  6. 6. Must acquire knowledge of community resources.
  7. 7. Experience with families and children.
  8. 8. Early Childhood Education Experience preferred.

EOE/ADA/DFW/Tobacco Free Campus

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Job Tags

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