Community Therapist

Are you committed to making a difference? 🏠🌎🙌

Do you have experience working in mental health, foster care, or similar fields of work?  

If you said YES to both of those questions and have your Master's degree in social work or mental health counseling then we have the job for you!  The Community Therapist position is active throughout the WNY community and provides services in the children and family's home, which provide direct services through our Children and Family Treatment and Support Services (CTFSS), empowering individuals to achieve their highest quality of life.  

This is a hybrid position combining work in the community, remote/home, and some office work for staff and supervision meetings.  Community settings are typically providers working with families directly in their homes and public spaces throughout WNY.  Our offices are in Lackawanna (just 10 minutes south of Buffalo)!

Work Schedule:  Create your own weekly schedule!  Hours are afternoons, evenings and weekends according to youth’s schedule.  

Perks

• Flexible schedule
• Casual dress code
• Paid training
• OLV Tuition Reimbursement up to $7,200
• Qualifying Non-For-Profit for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness Program (click here to learn more: https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation)
• Take advantage of our Dental & Outpatient Mental Health services while working
• Up to $180 annual gym reimbursement
• $$ Employee referral program $$
• Mileage reimbursement per IRS rate

Benefits:

• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO) 
• Health, dental & vision insurance options
• Paid employer sponsored life insurance
• Supplemental insurance programs for additional life insurance, short-term disability, accident & cancer insurance
• Up to $600 every year for completing biometric health screenings on a single health insurance plan & up to $1,200 if a spouse completes too!

Responsible to: HCBS Clinical Supervisor

Job Summary:

The Licensed Community Therapist provides Other Licensed Practitioner (OLP) services to individuals with behavioral health needs, including counseling, treatment planning, and evaluation. Service is provided to children, foster youth, and families to ensure that they are linked with supports both in the home, and in the community. The OLP researches and communicates with community organizations, and providers to provide a diverse array of services and to ensure all families and staff are aware of the resources available to them in their communities.

Essential Job Duties:

An OLP will provide direct services to clients in their home or community, and oversee the direct service providers as needed, ensuring quality service standards are met provide support, training and coaching to the staff. 
1. Provide OLP services, including: Assessments: Treatment Planning: Psychotherapy (Counseling) and Crisis Intervention Activities. 
2. Attend New Worker Training and insure DOH, OMH and OPWDD Training standards are met, maintain your records reflecting this. Complete required CEU’s for Licensure. 
3. Attend team meetings, staff meetings and supervision sessions as scheduled 
4. Report all incidents
5. Research community resources and build partnerships to assist with client programming 
6.Ensure appropriate chain of command is utilized 
7. Complies with all federal and state regulations and agency policies pertaining to HIPAA, false claims, whistleblower policies and all others.
8. Completes all documentation in electronic health record, including but not limited to, treatment plans, progress notes, assessments, safety plans.
9. Any other duties assigned by your supervisor.

Skills: 
• Excellent customer skills • Computer skills Competencies: • Communication: Oral and written • Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations • Quality Focus: Promoting and maintaining high standards at work, looking for ways to improve products and services, and encouraging coworkers to do so as well • Problem solving: Takes a systematic approach to solving problems rather than reacting to symptoms • Empowering others: The ability to convey confidence in employees' ability to be successful, especially at challenging new tasks; delegating significant responsibility and authority; allowing employees freedom to decide how they will accomplish their goals and resolve issues. • Taking initiative: Identifying what needs to be done and doing it before being asked or before the situation requires it  

Minimum Education Required:  

 Master’s Degree in Social Work or Mental Health Counseling

Minimum Experience Required:   

At least 3 years of experience working with children

License/Registration/ Certifications Required:

•NYS Driver's License (required)

One of the following: 
•Licensed Psychologist; OR
•Licensed Psychoanalyst; OR
•Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist; OR
•Licensed Mental Health Counselor; OR
•Licensed Creative Arts Therapist 

Training Requirements:
New Hire Orientation
Agency required annual trainings including Mandated Reporter
Program specific trainings including Trauma informed care

Physical Requirements:
The overall nature of the position is sedentary requiring little physical effort with occasional light physical exertion required. 

There is little, if any, exposure to environmental conditions • The constant physical demands of the position are standing and walking.

The frequent physical demands of the position are climbing, talking, hearing, repetitive motions, and eye/hand/foot coordination, sitting.

The occasional physical demands of the position are lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, balancing, stooping, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling