Therapeutic Training & Support Staff ($3000 Sign-On!)

Child & Family Services, Inc.
New Bedford, MA
Summary

In-Home Therapy (IHT) is a structured, consistent, strengths-based therapeutic relationship between a clinician and the youth and family for the purpose of meeting the youth’s behavioral health needs, including improving the family’s ability to provide effective support for the youth to promote his/her/their healthy functioning within the family. Interventions are designed to enhance the family’s capacity to improve the youth’s functioning in the home and community and may prevent the need for the youth’s admission to an inpatient hospital, residential treatment facility or other treatment setting.

Child and Family Services recognizes the power in Diversity and believes that Equity is a Human Right.

$1 per hour Language Differential (eligible languages include: Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL)

$3000 Full-time Sign-On Bonus! (Half at 3 months; half at 6 months)

This is an excellent position for someone who is working towards their clinical Master’s degree and looking for a more clinical work experience.

Compensation is determined by factors to include evaluating internal equity, individual experience and job value, and aligning with current external market pay to ensure fairness and competitiveness.

Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions

  • Work in collaboration with team members and the entire family, or a subset of the family, to assist with implementation of focused, structural, or strategic interventions and behavioral techniques to: enhance problem-solving, limit-setting, risk management/safety planning, and communication; build skills to strengthen the family, advance therapeutic goals, or improve ineffective patterns of interaction; identify and utilize community resources; and develop and maintain natural supports for the youth and parent/caregiver(s) in order to promote sustainability of treatment gains.
  • Maintain positive working relationships with IHT team, including supervisor and clinician, in addition to other collateral contacts and community providers.
  • Support implementation of the clinician’s treatment plan to assist the youth and family in achieving the goals of that plan.
  • Attend and assist with facilitating family therapy sessions.
  • Facilitate individual sessions with clients.
  • Assist the clinician in implementing the therapeutic objectives of the treatment plan designed to address the youth’s mental health, behavioral, and emotional needs.
  • Maintain production expectations and record keeping requirements.
  • Participate in appropriate clinical and administrative staff meetings.
  • Engage in effective Care Coordination and Collaboration.
  • Participate in independent education and training opportunities.
  • Utilize clinical skills involving knowledge of the DSM-5.
  • Provide psychoeducation and advocacy as appropriate.
  • Maintain consistent communication with supervisor and team members: remaining available via work cell phone and by reading and responding to work related emails daily.
  • Remain up to date with all paperwork and documentation needs within the IHT program.
  • Maintain all scheduled sessions with youth and families; maintain regular contact with all youth and families and consistently meet program expectations, including production (75% of hours worked).
  • Attend and actively participate in clinical supervision and team meetings.
  • Adhere to the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) Values and IHT Practice Profile.
  • Practice cultural relevance by (1) the ongoing process of acquiring an understanding of how the values, beliefs, attitudes, and traditions of racial, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic, and other groups contribute to our own and other people’s cultures; 2) learning about personal circumstances, conditions, nature, and experiences that influence our own and other people’s thinking, behavior, and community roles; 3) acknowledging differences and similarities in power and privilege among groups of people; and 4) using this knowledge to work effectively with all people (Per IHT Practice Profile).

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Posted 2025-09-23

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