Child/Family Therapist: Intensive Services – Associate License

at  YMCA of Greater Seattle

JOB SUMMARY

The Child & Family Therapist provides comprehensive mental health, family stabilization & reunification, crisis stabilization, and recovery services to youth, and their families, in foster, adoptive, kinship, birth homes, or placements in the community.
This position is with the Y Social Impact Center, the social services branch of YMCA of Greater Seattle (YGS). The mission of the Social Impact Center is to accelerate young people’s ability to build safe, successful, and happy lives. Every year, we serve 5,000 children, youth, young adults, and families across King County with programs that aim to strengthen young people’s ability to develop to their fullest potential through four strategies: reducing risk factors; navigating systems towards successful life transition; ensuring stability, safety and wellness in times of crisis; and building competencies and social capital. The Social Impact Center Y’s programs include housing, behavioral health, foster care licensing, violence prevention, education, and employment. Many of the young people we serve have had involvement in the foster care, criminal justice system, and/or homelessness systems.

• Maintains a caseload of 10-12 intensive services clients as assigned. Partners with clients to succeed in school, job, home, courts, and community settings.
• Utilizes Credible including all required forms including documentation daily of all activities performed that day.
• Utilizes evidence based and best practice treatment modalities to provide individual and family stabilization services, including crisis prevention and safety planning, parenting skills training, behavior management, de-escalation training and brief counseling and case management.
• Uses clinical skills to assess, diagnose (DSM 5 and ICD 10) and treat individuals. Maintains numerous clinical practice qualifications as required and assigned (TF-CBT, CANS, CFARS, NOMS).
• Develops and implements individual Service plans in partnership with the individual and family that are sensitive to cultural, social, mental health and recovery needs. Provides therapeutic services within an intensive wraparound team model.
• Routinely provides intensive client services in home, school, and community settings, with an average service provision of 2-4 hours for each client per week. Utilizes personal vehicle for travel to provide services.
• Maintains a flexible schedule in order to meet the needs of children & families, including the ability to provide services during evenings and weekends as needed.Participates in rotation schedule as a member of the crisis on-call team. Provides after hours crisis response by phone and in person as needed during scheduled shifts.
• Responds to emergencies in a timely and effective manner.
• Accurately completes all required paperwork in a timely fashion. And, documents activities and interventions in accordance with agency, managed care, and state requirements.
• Participates in quality assurance measures including regularly scheduled clinical audits.
• Provides consultation and training as appropriate to assist individuals and families in articulating personal goals for recovery and determining the objectives the individual and family needs to take in order to reach their recovery goals.
• Attends weekly clinical and supervision meetings as scheduled.
• Understand and utilizes the recovery model in assisting consumers.
• Provides clinical and administrative support to case managers and adjunct clinical oversight and leadership to Behavior Specialists, Family Support Case Aides, and Child & Family
• Therapy Interns in order to ensure consistent treatment planning and a collaborative therapeutic approach
• Teaches individuals and families how to facilitate their own recovery, access support groups, utilize effective problem-solving techniques, and identify natural and community supports that are conducive to recovery.
• Collaborates effectively with other professionals including attending internal multi-disciplinary case planning meetings and external Family Team Decision Meetings, Child and Family Team meetings, wraparound meetings, etc. in order to meet the goals of the individuals and families.
• Maintains a working knowledge of current trends and developments in the mental health field through continuing education and reading relevant materials.Reports all critical incidents and adheres to YMCA program policies and procedures