FFT Therapist

Description

Tides Family Services is a nonprofit organization that is committed to providing comprehensive support and resources to children, adolescents, and families facing various challenges. The overall mission of Tides is to provide services and supports that allow youth to live in a community-based setting. An \"Agency Without Walls\" our services are delivered in homes, communities, schools...wherever our youth are.

Position Summary: As an FFT Therapist, you will play a pivotal role in providing comprehensive counseling services to FFT clients and their families. Your responsibilities will include conducting bio-psychosocial assessments, collaborating with integrated teams to develop treatment goals, providing in-home and community-based FFT counseling, maintaining crisis and trauma counseling services, and ensuring the adherence to quality service metrics.

Essential Functions:

• Assess and evaluate case management needs of FFT clients and family services.
• Performs a bio-psychosocial assessment interview with client, family, and/or significant other according to agency policy and standards.
• Work collaboratively with outreach teams on shared cases to develop, review and evaluate treatment goals, provide resources, advocacy, perform routine assessments and build relationships with clients and families.
• Provide in-home and community based FFT counseling by addressing referral behaviors and measuring progress specified timeframes.
• Maintain crisis and trauma counseling and other services to help ensure FFT client and family safety.
• Ensure quality service case metrics are met through ongoing analysis, case review, daily Echo reporting, and accuracy of data entry into TFS Echo and FFT's CSS platform or other reporting measures.
• Support activities, services and programs that uphold NASW professional boundaries and are culturally sensitive to clients and families.
• Empower families to make stable commitments to children by providing counseling and aligning to the national FFT evidence-based model.
• Maintain a high degree of professionalism in the community, with clients, schools, courts and with referring agencies seeking to build and sustain positive relationships.
• Attending all required program meetings including weekly individual and group supervision, tracking rundown, staff meetings, and other meetings scheduled by supervisor.
• Maintain weekly service delivery requirements with FFT clients and families.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Master's degree from an accredited school in social work - Preferred
• LCSW/LICSW/LMHC - Preferred
• Valid driver's license, insurance, registered/inspected vehicle- Required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 2-4 years' experience in human services, healthcare, and other non-profit agencies
• Demonstrates a safe, evidence-based approach aligned to the requirements of
• Functional Families Therapy (FFT) while continuously using everyday behavior opportunities to teach, guide, and support youth and families with their goals and challenges to remain in the home and in their communities.
• Bilingual; English, Spanish, Portuguese, Creole- Preferred
• Capacity for behavior management utilizing FFT evidence-based counseling techniques,
• program structure, guidelines and crisis intervention and to use metrics to ensure
• accountability.

The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required to satisfactorily perform essential duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Tides Family Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values our diverse workforce and encourages all mission driven candidates to apply. We are a PBN Best Place to Work recipient, a Safe Zone Certified Employer, and a Veteran Friendly Employer. Join our team!