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Form of work$3,000 Sign-on bonus. $1,500 paid at 90 days and remaining $1,500 paid at 180 days.
Make a living while making a difference!
Join Saint Francis Ministries and become a certified as a Family Centered Treatment® Specialist or Therapist, providing intensive prevention services to families in their home. FCT keeps families together by helping them develop the solutions and skills they need to reduce risks in everyday situations. You could be instrumental in helping families heal, develop new skills, and maintain wholeness. New hires will complete a self-guided online training course and make consistent progress towards achieving FCT Certification from the FCT Foundation through videotaped demonstration of competencies. Acquire new skills and certifications to launch you on a fulfilling career while supporting healthy families. What could be better? Plus, you can work from home when not in session with your assigned families - while carrying a caseload of no more than 5 families. If you can work alone and as a part of a team, and if you are open to constructive feedback from peers, we want you!
Start changing lives today, including your own.
- Enroll in Wheels of Change at time of hire completing he first 4 units within 14 days of hire. The first 4 units must be completed prior to serving clients. Training for each phase of training must be completed prior to providing services required in each phase
- Complete all requirements to be certified in the FCT model within 365 days of start date
- Conducts initial and on-going assessments that are strength based and individualized to be incorporated into treatment plans
- Attends and participates weekly team supervision meetings where cases are reviewed, and feedback is provided
- Facilitates and monitors ongoing treatment, planning, and implementation
- Includes the family in individualized treatment plans that are periodically updated to reflect the goals of the family and child and focuses on empowerment and increasing parent accountability
- Provides FCT in-home family treatment, adhering to and ensuring fidelity to the FCT model
- Ability to prioritize cases and organize multiple case demands for multiple clients
- Assigned a caseload of 5 families, spending an average of 4 hours per week with clients, a minimum of 2 weekly contacts, in compliance with the FCT model
- Serves as liaison with DCF, courts, schools, other providers, and community
- Provide thorough documentation including treatment plans, progress notes, monthly reports and assessments and submitted within the required deadlines reflecting language that is related to the model
- Complete and maintain all program fidelity documents in a timely manner
- Assists in monitoring the overall client satisfaction of the program
- Provides intervention for clients in crisis situations 24 hours on-call, 365 days
- Attend court, prepare youth and families of court and communicate with the case manager and court staff when necessary in consultation with the family and DCF
- Submits all required paperwork for billing as applicable
Requirements
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND LICENSURE/CERTIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's Degree in Social or Family Services, e.g. Social Work, Psychology or Sociology
- Must be at least 21 years of age
- Mandated Reporter
- Ability to monitor safety and address safety concerns
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of family driven practice, genograms, ecomaps and social histories
- Understanding of the child welfare and state system
- Family therapy techniques, both individual and group
- Understanding of child and adolescent development and family systems
- Ability to collaborate with child/family, extended family and friends and other agencies involved to empower the family
- Ability to work with all cultures, use culturally competent model
- Flexible to changing situations, ability to work evenings and weekend if needed by the family
- Able to solve problems and make independent judgments to effect change, but also able and willing to seek assistance when necessary
- Handles multiple priorities
- Ability to manage emotions and exhibit emotional maturity, empathy, patience, and sound judgment
- Works alone effectively, self-motivated
- Works effectively with others/teamwork
- Ability to receive feedback
- Understands and practices Universal Precautions
- Ability to travel and provide in home services
