FIT Paraprofessional - Community Service Agency

Child & Family Services, Inc.; Fall River (MA); On-site; USD 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Language differential: $1/hr

Job summary

Child & Family Services, Inc. in Fall River, MA is seeking a Family-Based Intensive Treatment Paraprofessional to join a multidisciplinary team.

You will support intensive family therapy, care coordination, and targeted case management for youth under 21 with Serious Emotional Disturbance, under clinical supervision. You will assist clinicians, participate in family therapy, coordinate with schools and outpatient providers, and contribute to discharge planning and ongoing program supervision.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team and family to implement interventions and strengthen family dynamics.
• Maintain positive relationships with FIT team, supervisors, clinicians, and community providers.
• Support clinicians' treatment plans to help youth and families achieve goals.
• Provide coaching in decision-making during crises and non-crisis periods.
• Attend and assist with family therapy sessions and facilitate individual sessions.
• Assist in implementing therapeutic objectives addressing youth mental health and behavior.
• Make referrals with the family and FIT team to access services.
• Link youth and families to outpatient providers and attend related meetings when needed.
• Assist families with education system needs; attend school meetings and IEP discussions.
• Identify and obtain services from available resources per the treatment plan.
• Attend meetings related to youth's behavioral health needs and support discharge planning.
• Participate in supervision and team meetings; engage in ongoing program activities.
• Engage in care coordination and collaboration across systems.

Job description

The Family-Based Intensive Treatment (FIT) Paraprofessional is responsible for working as a member of a multidisciplinary team to offer a combination of intensive family therapy, care coordination, targeted case management and Family Partner support for youth under 21 who have experienced a Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) and meet other Medical Necessity Criteria (MNC). They are responsible to the Clinical Team Lead and the CSA Program Director.

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)

Child & Family Services carefully considers a wide range of factors when determining compensation including, but not limited to, prior experience, education, certification(s), license(s), skills and expertise, location, internal equity and other factors that are job related and consistent with business need. Our goal is to support, reward and compensate the entire individual. Depending on role eligibility, your offer may include a bonus or other incentives. Therefore, final offer amounts may vary from the amount stated.

Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these 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 FIT 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
• Provide coaching in support of decision-making in both crisis and non-crisis situations
• 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
• Make referrals as determined by the family, FIT team, and treatment plan
• Promotes linkage with outpatient providers by assisting the youth and family in their attending outpatient appointments. When requested by the family, and when clinically appropriate, attends and supports a youth and family at meetings related to the youth's behavioral health needs treatments in any setting
• Support and help the family with the education system by attending school meetings and participating in the development of any school plans/IEP’s; and within other systems such as the courts, state agencies and community organizations
• Using the treatment plan, identify and actively assist the family to obtain and monitor the delivery of available and agreed upon services
• When requested by the family, and when clinically appropriate, attends and supports a youth and family at meetings related to the youths behavioral health needs
• Promotes linkage with outpatient providers by assisting the youth and family in their attending outpatient appointments
• Engages in robust discharge planning, that begins at intake. Assists the youth and family in assessing and accessing other levels of care as clinically appropriate
• Participates in weekly individual supervision and weekly clinical supervision, appropriate with the needs of the program
• Participates in ongoing program and agency meetings as required
• 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 FIT program.
• Maintain all scheduled sessions with youth and families; maintain regular contact with all youth and families and consistently meet program expectations
• Attend and actively participate in clinical supervision and team meeting

Travel Required

Must have a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation that meets CFS Driver Policy. Travel is required to provide services in different settings and to attend agency meetings, events, and trainings

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.