Staff Therapist - Youth and Family Division

STAFF THERAPIST (Youth and Family) - POSITION DESCRIPTION

POSITION TITLE: Staff Therapist (Youth and Family)   REPORTS TO:  Director of Client Care for Youth and Families

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

A staff therapist provides individual, group, couple, and/or family counseling; participates as a clinical staff team member; shares in staffing and case conferences; performs necessary administrative tasks; and participates in community engagement activities.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Provide care to clients seeking services under the scope of practice indicated by licensure.
2. Participate in organizational provider activities (such as SERT [Spiritual Existential Religious Theological], Peer Review, and Continuing Education, etc.)

   3. Community engagement and education

EXAMPLES OF WORK:

Professional Provider Services

• Providing the number of agreed upon clinical hours, with specific focus on work with children and adolescents
• Maintaining electronic clinical records in keeping with policies and procedures
• Working with the administrative staff to set and collect appropriate fees
• Representing the standards and practices of their primary professional fields

Organizational Provider Activities:

• Working cooperatively with staff colleagues, consultants, and referring professionals
• Actively participating in clinical staffing and case consultations, especially with the youth and family team
• Attending administrative staff meetings, staff retreats, and other activities

Community Engagement and Education

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  Participating in the development of the Center's referral network
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  Performing administrative and development tasks as assigned
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  Participating in the Center's programs of education, consultation, and community relations

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master's or doctor's degree in counseling, psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, or equivalent.
• Valid license within the State of Texas required, must be free from any license sanction and/or professional restrictions that could negatively impact the organization. Membership to corresponding professional associations respective of licensure preferred.
• At least 2 years of clinical training and experience respective of field of practice and licensure preferred.
• Experience working with children, adolescents, and families in a clinical setting for at least 1 year.
• Specific training in the scope of at least 10 hours regarding working with children and adolescents
• Demonstrates capacity to work freely with clients and to protect them from the therapist's own problems.
• Proficiency in a coherent theory and practice of therapy.
• Ability to clearly articulate how theory impacts work with youth and families
• Ability to effectively communicate with caregivers of youth and families
• Ability to use the language and methodology of differential diagnosis and familiarity with the contributions of various diagnostic tests.
• Ability to assess a client's therapeutic needs, to establish a therapeutic relationship, and to conduct, complete, terminate, and evaluate that therapy.
• Ability to relate the contributions of various disciplines to the therapeutic task and to make appropriate use of inter-professional collaboration.
• Ability to honor and integrate a client’s spiritual beliefs and practices within the therapeutic process.
• Ability to work effectively with the community, including but not limited to donors, sponsors, other nonprofits, and agencies that collaborate with the organization.
• Ability to think holistically about the therapeutic task and the relation of therapy to the total task of integrating care for mind, body, and spirit.
• Ability and willingness to develop and cultivate his/her own caseload by representing the organization in the community and relating to referral sources.
• Ability to establish and maintain appropriate personal and professional relationships and boundaries both within and outside the organization.

Position-Specific Demands

This position performs the majority of work indoors, with some outdoor work during special events. Job duties require the ability to remain in a stationary position between 50-80% of the time worked; the ability to traverse the office area; constantly operate office machinery such as computers, calculators, faxes and printers. Duties also require the ability to lift, push, pull or move items up to approximately 25 pounds. Occasionally, an individual in the position might find the need to kneel, stoop, crouch or traverse tight spaces. The position requires the individual to be able to communicate frequently using appropriate senses in order to detect, discern, identify, recognize, judge, observe, estimate, inspect or assess details of the work environment.

The individual in this position could be exposed to changes in climate when working outdoors; and be subject to tension, stress and difficult situations from time to time. Occasionally, the individual could be exposed to hazardous chemicals such as inks, toners, cleaning chemicals or similar. Exposure to blood/bodily fluids and bloodborne pathogens is expected to be rare.

Please note: nothing in this job description restricts administration’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time; This description reflects administrations assignment of essential functions, it does not provide or restrict the tasks that may be assigned; This job description is subject to change at any time.