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What You’ll Be Doing

You will be responsible for providing service coordination to children and families in crisis, continued follow through and supervision beyond crisis stage in helping families cope with any issues and find longer term solutions. The Clinician will also be responsible for providing outreach family counseling to clients assigned through community-based services utilizing a variety of treatment interventions and working as a team with case workers.

Hybrid Role, 20% Remote Work.

Your Main Priorities

While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primary:

•    Conduct initial and follow-up assessments with clients and identified family members/caregivers.

•    Develop, implement, and monitor ongoing care plan for each family serviced; coordinates all service components within the agency and in the community.

•    Provide community and home-based therapy to assist families secure a safe and independent level of living.

•    Work with families dealing with psychological, emotional, and social challenges and helps parents develop healthy coping and parenting skills.

•    Utilize home-based strength models to provide a wide range of assistance and resources to families in the process of reunification or to avoid separation.

•    Coordinate services with schools, police, health care providers, court systems, and other service providers.

•    Maintain accurate client records, completing documentation requirements.

Who You Are

Requirements, Skills & Abilities:

•    Master’s degree in social work or related field required.

•    License eligible (LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, LICSW, etc.), licensure preferred.

•    Minimum 6 months’ experience working with children and/or adolescents; experience with child and/or adolescent development, abuse, and crisis intervention.

•    Must be able to adapt to a flexible work schedule.

•    Strong organizational, critical thinking and time-management skills.

•    Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.

•    Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.

•    Bilingual in Spanish preferred.

•    Collaboration and teamwork.

•    Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.

•    The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.

Travel Requirements

Site Location: Providence

Statewide travel required

Physical Requirements

Direct Service Staff:

This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:

•    Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.

•    Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.

•    Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.

Affirmative Action

Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.