Therapeutic Training and Support Worker

$3000 Sign on bonus!

Are you someone who wants to empower and inspire families to achieve their goals? Do you want to gain professional experience working with a team of people, collaborating with other agencies and using evidence based interventions? MSPCC, a division of Eliot, is seeking a passionate, empowering clinician to support clients within their diverse home environments utilizing the Wraparound model.

Our Child, Youth and Family Behavioral Health Services encompass multiple service systems that include: Intensive Care Coordination, Family Support and Training, In-Home Therapy, Therapeutic Mentoring, Outpatient Counseling and Psychiatry, and other community based programming. Service delivery is collaborative, family driven and youth guided, with a focus on individual and family strengths, needs, and preferences.

As a therapeutic training and support person (TT&S) you will make a difference by providing family driven in-home therapeutic services through the Wraparound Approach. You support the diverse and complex needs of clients and their entire family system by working with a clinician to provide intensive weekly services through evidence based individual and family sessions. You work in collaboration with the clinician and the family to develop a strength based treatment plan in collaboration with the family, and assist caretakers during crisis through crisis intervention, safety planning, and communicating with Emergency Services when appropriate. You further support families through empowerment and advocacy while coordinating services with other treatment providers including inpatient, CBAT and STARR programs, other CBHI services, primary care physicians, schools. DCF, DYS, and DMH.

Your responsibilities include flexibility to accommodate the scheduling needs of families, meeting weekly productivity targets, maintaining up to date insurance authorizations, maintaining an up to date medical record, and participating in rotating on-call schedule to support families outside of regular business hours..

You will be supported through ongoing training in the Wraparound Model, billing practices, exposure and collaboration with other community systems, training in evidence based and trauma informed models, and consistent weekly supervision.

Responsibilities:

• In conjunction with the IHT clinician, provide weekly individual & family therapy as well as parent coaching sessions for the youth and their family. These sessions typically occur in the home or a community location.
• Assist parents in their development as advocates for their children, including joint attendance at school or community meetings.
• Assist in the gathering of information to be utilized in a comprehensive strengths and needs based assessment.
• Participate in the development of a strength-based treatment plan and safety plan. Such plans will include behavior modification therapy, crisis intervention to determine ways to best defuse a situation without necessarily moving a child; and linkage to needed supportive services.
• Be flexible with work schedule to accommodate the needs of the families
• Locate needed local/state/federal resources, such as after-school programs, summer camps for special needs children, fuel assistance programs, HUD low-income housing, etc., and supply these resources to the family.
• Provide linkage to on-going community treatment and support services, which range from traditional services (such as medication, therapy) to less traditional services (such as respite care, tutoring, transportation, and mentor services).
• Provide emergency response and intensive outreach to families in order to assist them in stabilizing children and adolescents within their home during a psychiatric crisis.
• Provide care coordination for youth and their wraparound team, including planning and facilitating quarterly team (HUB) meetings.

Schedule: M-F 8am-4pm

Experience

• 1 year(s): Experience with youth in a community setting

Education

• Associates or better in Other or related field

• Bachelors or better in Psychology or related field

Licenses & Certifications

• MA Driver's License

Skills

• Computer Software Skills
• Communication Skills
• Administrative Tasks
• Experience with population