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About the Role
The Functional Family Therapy - Adult program is a therapeutic model that reduces community and interpersonal violence by engaging people in a change process that nurtures hope and strengthens relationships. It focuses on interfamilial and extrafamilial factors influencing therapeutic processes. The Therapist is integral to successful treatment.
Responsibilities
- Carry a caseload as assigned
- Provide weekly one-hour, home-based, virtual, or office family therapy sessions to clients, at a minimum
- Actively participate as part of the therapy team
- Complete formalized FFT-A assessments
- Refer families to appropriate services and supports regularly
- Provide families with both clinical and concrete services
- Perform basic accountability tasks, including compiling and maintaining necessary records
- Attend all FFT-A training sessions and supplemental continuing education modules with fidelity by integrating required data management system into service delivery decisions
- Provide supervision to assigned Case Managers along with the Program Supervisor
- Provide life skills classes
- Collect information for program effectiveness along with administrative staff
- Perform other related duties as requested by direct supervisor or Clinical Director
Requirements
- Ability and willingness to work with families in their own homes
- Flexibility to work when families are available, including non-traditional and flexible work hours for weekend, evening, or other appointment times
- Ability to work independently and contribute to a team
- Very good interpersonal/communication skills
- Bilingual Spanish preferred
- Strong clinical skills
- Ability to internalize and work within the FFT-A philosophy and model
- Expertise in working with young adults, 19-27 years of age preferred
- Ability to work with respect for cultural diversity
- Ability to engage families who may not want the service
- Ability to adapt and individualize program interventions to utilize family strengths and skills
- Commitment to empowering families to solve their own problems
- Belief in the capacity of people to grow and change
- Ability to establish a mutually respectful relationship where the family is a full partner, empowered to solve their own problems
- Ability to intervene decisively when necessary to protect family members
- Ability to set appropriate boundaries and limits for best practice
- Commitment to RiseBoro’s mission, vision and values
- Ability to understand the concepts of institutional and structural racism and bias and their impact on underserved and underrepresented communities
- Demonstrated commitment to supporting communities who have experienced systemic oppression and bias (e.g., people of color, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, justice involved persons, etc.)
Skills
- FFT-A
- Data management system
- Life skills instruction
- Interpersonal communication
- Clinical skills
- Cultural diversity
- Family engagement
- Program intervention adaptation
- Problem-solving
- Relationship building
- Intervention
- Boundary setting
- Understanding of systemic racism and bias
- Support for oppressed communities
Location
- Home-based
- Virtual
- Office
Work Type
- Full-time
- Flexible hours
- Weekend availability
- Evening availability
Experience Level
- Two (2) years of experience in children and family services
Education Level
- Master’s degree in social work, counseling, mental health, or other relevant human service profession
Salary/Compensations
- $66,357.00 - $78,000.00 Salary/year
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Retirement
- PTO
About the Company
- Commitment to RiseBoro’s mission, vision and values
- Understanding of the concepts of institutional and structural racism and bias and their impact on underserved and underrepresented communities
- Demonstrated commitment to supporting communities who have experienced systemic oppression and bias (e.g. people of color, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, justice involved persons, etc.)