Therapist

Overall Job Objective

What Success Looks Like In This Job

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We are seeking a Child Protection Therapist to provide intensive/extensive clinical assessment and treatment services to families involved with Social Services with the primary goal of reducing and/or eliminating child protection concerns.

Examples of Duties for Success

• Provides direct therapeutic services:
  • Strengths-based assessment, crisis intervention, and safety planning interventions, as well as individual, group, couple and family therapy services; with the primary focus/goal in reducing and/or eliminating child protection concerns. Direct therapeutic services include face to face and telemental health services.
• Conducts indirect therapeutic services:
  • Identifies mental health and clinical goals and bio/psycho/social needs of the family; develops treatment plans; documents observations of client (family) progress in contact notes; completes clinical reports (assessment, monthly, and closure) which address case status, stage of services, and evaluations towards terminating/transitioning clients out of treatment or to community resources.
• Engages in collaborative practices:
  • Sets and facilitates case staffings with internal and external collateral professionals to review clinical goals and ensure quality customer relations and service provision; keeps supervisor up to date on case status, issues, and potential concerns; participates in and/or facilitates individual and group clinical supervision, training and meetings; attends advisory/decision making forums to coordinate service provision. Provide expert testimony in Court Proceedings.

Qualifications for Success

• Knowledge of:
  • Colorado Children's Code.
  • Departmental policies and procedures.
  • Colorado State Department of Social Services Manual, Volume VII.
  • Computer systems used in child protection.
  • Practices and principles of child protection.
  • Clinical modalities and their application to child protection.
• Skill to:
  • Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
  • Assess and coordinate community resources.
  • Provide therapeutic treatment to clients.
• Ability to:
  • Represent department and County in a positive and professional manner.
  • Develop therapeutic relationships with clients.
  • Recognize and identify risk factors and dynamics of child abuse, child neglect, and family functioning and cultural issues.
  • Work independently.
  • Provide leadership to coworkers and make decisions as needed.
  • Establish, maintain, and foster positive and harmonious working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
  • Adhere to Adams County Norms and Values.

More Qualifications for Success

• Experience: Three (3) years of full time professional social casework experience or experience as a practicing clinician acquired after the degree in a public or private social services agency in an area appropriate to the position.
• Education and Training: A Master's degree in one of the human behavioral science fields.
• License or Certificate:
  • Clinical License required OR License Eligible.
  • Possession of a Colorado Driver's License and proof of automotive insurance
• Background Check: Must pass a criminal background check.
• Other: Must utilize a personal vehicle to get to many appointments in the local community and surrounding areas within Colorado