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
• 11 Wellness Days- Including the week of Christmas off!
• 10 Paid Holidays

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!

POSITION SUMMARY:

This is a professional clinical position providing counseling to adults and families in the FIT program under the Families First Division. FIT is an intensive, wrap-around treatment program for parents with at least one child under 10 years old that are involved with child welfare due to substance misuse. Wrap-around services are an evidence based, research supported practice. By providing wrap-around services, FIT assists in reducing the impact parental substance use has on the family, community, and child welfare system. The FIT Team includes a Counselor to address therapeutic needs, a Behavioral Health Case Manager to improve parents' ability to access community resources, and a Peer Recovery Specialist to provide lived-experience mentoring. These services are provided in the community.

The Counselor - FIT 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 - FIT 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 - FIT 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 - FIT 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 - FIT 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 - FIT ensures that services are CulturallyLinguistically Competent and are tailored to the unique culture of the parent. The Counselor - FIT 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 - FIT 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 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:

• Master's degree in Counseling, Psychology, Social Work or related field required.
• Minimum of 2 years previous experience working with at risk population (children and families).
• CAP certification preferred.
• 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.
• Have sufficient clinical knowledge of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Focused- CBT and other evidence based treatments.
• Must acquire knowledge of community resources.
• Must take the Wraparound for Clinicians Training (3-hours) within 30 days of employment. Preference willbe given to individuals who have taken the 3-hour Wraparound for Clinicians training.

EOE/ADA/DFW

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