Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Lcsw) / Licensed Professional Counselor (Lpc) Instructor

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) / Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) Instructor will provide training on how to properly respond to sexual assault and child abuse cases. 
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Adhere to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and Child Advocacy Center (CAC) guidelines and protocols.
• Responsible for professional training on mandated topics on Problematic Sexual Behaviors in Children and Youth (PSB-CY) of all PSB team members assigned to PSB cases.
• Instruct Family Advocacy Program (FAP) personnel, New Parent Support Program staff, Domestic Abuse Victim Advocates (DAVA), Child Development Program staff, Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) staff, Military criminal investigation organization (MCIO), Military and Family Life Counselors (MFLC), and behavioral health staff on NICHD and CAC guidelines.
• Maximize knowledge retention of the students through free-recall memory by using open-ended questions.
• Provide comprehensive instruction as it is utilized in the response of sexual assault and child abuse in a manner that most effectively meets the needs of both internal and external parties involved.
• Provide research-based guidelines to the students.
• Develop and issue LCSW/LPC educational content including notes, tests, and assignments.
• Supervise class to ensure all students are learning in a safe and productive environment.
• Deliver personalized instruction to each student by encouraging interactive learning.
• Ensure the classroom is clean and orderly.
• Evaluate and document students’ progress.
• Allocate and grade homework, assignments, and tests.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications: (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)

• BA or BS in Social Work or Counseling, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of LPC/LCSW experience.
• Proper licensure for their profession.
• U.S. citizen; able to read, write, speak, and understand English; have above-average Microsoft Office skills.
• Significant experience in researching, developing, implementing, and evaluating training and treatment programs for appropriate PSB-CY Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) appointed staff.
• Must possess broad spectrum of knowledge about treatment modalities, relevant and recent research on normative, cautionary, and problematic sexual behaviors of children and the advantages of an MDT approach.
• Immense civilian and military experience.
• Experience in NICHD child forensic interview training and CAC protocols.
• Experience in working directly with attorneys, investigators, juvenile justice centers and legal systems in the civilian and military sector.
• Full understanding of child development, including normal sexual development and behavior in children.
• Thorough knowledge of civil and criminal court proceedings.
• Introductory through advanced levels of understanding of PSB-CY.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to conduct training in reference to PSB-CY MDT treatment models which are non-punitive, family-oriented, cognitive-behavioral treatment group or family intervention models.
• Ability to teach trauma-informed care and evidence-based treatments and ways to assist members of the MDT about the reduction of stress, engaging parents and enhancing skills in parents and caregivers.
• Ability to facilitate and promote various approaches to cases and instruction to personnel responding to cases that involve various abuses as well as PSB-CY.
• Ability to facilitate PSB info about working directly with behavioral health personnel and systems, resources in the field, history of PSB and the latest theories and juvenile justice processes as it relates to the legal system.
• Ability to conduct peer case reviews, and provide inside regarding short-term, community-based outpatient program for youth and their caregivers.
• Ability to provide instruction to students working directly with attorneys, investigators, juvenile justice centers and legal systems at all levels.
• Ability to facilitate an advanced level of knowledge to civilian and military law enforcement officer, special agents, firsts responders and supporting personnel concerning the importance of documentation preparation, coordinated response, and handling complex investigations involving children and families.
• Ability to provide comprehensive instruction as it is utilized in investigation of sexual assault and child abuse in a manner that most effectively meets the needs of both internal and external parties involved, the understanding of state, local, and federal policies as well as the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
• Ability to facilitate an advanced level of knowledge to civilian and military personnel concerning the importance of parental engagement, using child first language, coordinated and collaborative response, and handling complex cases involving PSB-CY on an MDT.
• Ability to define and explain childhood mental health and behavioral problems as well as current research literature and empirically supported intervention and treatment for childhood behavioral and mental health problems.
• Ability to facilitate a trauma informed understanding of sexual development, cultural, environmental, and family factors that affect child and youth behaviors.
• Ability to collaboratively teach as part of a team. 
• Ability to multi-task in a high-stress, complex performance-based environment.
• Ability to establish priorities and meet established deadlines.
• Ability to self-start and work independently or as a team.

Physical Demands: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.)

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.  The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands, and/or fingers.  The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Work Environment: (The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.)

• The employee will normally work in a temperature-controlled office environment, with frequent exposure to electronic office equipment.
• During periods of instruction, may be exposed to extreme cold or hot weather conditions.  Is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and loud noise.

Chenega Corporation and its family of companies are an EOE.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Native preference under PL 93-638.
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