Home-Based Counselor

Home-based Services

 

This program provides intensive, time-limited, in-home crisis intervention and treatment services to the family unit in need.  The program is family focused and is strengths based.  Highly trained staff provides a broad array of services tailored to the individual child and family.  In-home services are provided typically but not solely in the residence of an individual who is at risk of being moved into out-of-home placement or is being transitioned to home from out-of home placement.  



MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

 

Education and Experience

 

Any combination of education and experience equivalent to a Masters degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, or a related field from an accredited college or university; five years of experience working with troubled children and families; experience working with the population served and in providing the services outlined in the service description; experience in the areas of program design and development, program management, and staff supervision.

 

HOME BASED COUNSELOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 

¨ Manages a small caseload of service recipient families, providing services in families’ homes on an intensive basis and utilizing short-term, solution focused treatment strategies

¨ Prepares written diagnostic assessments, assessing service recipients from multiple perspectives, including family functioning, psychological/emotional, social, academic, medical, behavioral, substance abuse, skills, strengths, barriers to economic self-sufficiency, treatment history, and others, and utilizing various assessment instruments

¨ Prepares written service plan, incorporating input from service recipients, involved service providers, and clearly identifying problem areas and needs, strategies, and service objectives

¨ Provides direct clinical services to service recipients, including individual, family, couple, and group therapy, and issue-specific or educational groups (parenting skills, anger management, substance abuse interventions)

¨ Responds to crisis situations with twenty-four hour a day availability

¨ Documents case activities for both clinical and billing purposes

¨ Prepares progress reports as required by referral source or service purchaser

¨ Participates in Child Specific Team, Family Assessment and Planning Team, and other interdisciplinary, diagnostic, or planning meetings

¨ Collaborates and coordinates with other case involved service providers and professionals, such as attorneys, school personnel, social workers, and probation counselors

¨ Links service recipients with external programs or services.

¨ Attends court hearings when families are court-involved and presents testimony and treatment recommendations as requested by attorneys, referral source, the court, or service recipients

¨ Works with Clinical Supervisor to increase effectiveness of therapeutic intervention

   ¨ Prepares written Discharge Summary and Plan

 

Benefits

 ¨ Provides support for licensure