Job Description

About the Job:

Kulima Care Family Services is a faith-based, non-profit agency offering foster care, adoption, mentoring, and counseling services to support children, their families, and adults most effectively and respectfully. Our employees live out their passion for helping the community and are looking for a hardworking, dedicated, and passionate person to join the team!

• A Licensed or Unlicensed Therapist (Master’s degree required in Human Services, Social Services, Behavioral Science, Education, or a related field) will be responsible for providing clinical services—including individual, family, and group therapy, as well as psycho-social assessments—for foster children, their biological families, foster families, and/or adoptive families.
• Licensure Requirement: If unlicensed, the candidate must work under the supervision of a Clinical Licensed Supervisor outside of the agency. Meeting with them once a Month.
• Work Environment: Flexible—services may be provided from home, in the office, and within the community.
• Office Commitment: Therapist must be available to work in the office on one scheduled day—every Tuesday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Outside of this time, you schedule your own hours.

Responsibilities:

General:

• Contributes to Kulima's mission, vision, and program philosophies through work product and professional behavior with internal and external consumers.
• Adheres to all current federal & state laws, as well as Kulima's Policies and Procedures, including the safeguarding of confidential healthcare information and compliance with the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA).
• Reports immediately any suspected child abuse or neglect incidents to the Director/supervisor and the DCBS Child Abuse Hotline.
• Establishes relationships and communicates with clients, caseworkers/probation officers, family members, and staff.
• Participates actively in agency quality assurance activities, including performance and outcomes review, case record review, stakeholder satisfaction review, incident review, and improvement planning.
• Demonstrates an awareness, appreciation, and respect for diverse cultures and individual differences of clients and fellow employees; identifies culturally relevant issues and implements communications in a manner appropriate to them.
• Maintains professional licensure as a mental health provider in good standing based on licensing requirements.
• Maintains all training requirements for licensure and Kulima.
• Attends staff/agency meetings as required.
• Attends training related to the responsibilities of the position.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

Essential Duties:
Program:

• Ensures compliance with all regulatory requirements and Behavioral Health Policies and Procedures.
• Makes recommendations for program improvements.
• Reports to the Director (or other administrative team members) as necessary regarding support services, personnel issues, fiscal considerations, etc.
• Develops professional relationships with other peers in the field.
• Attends meetings and training as required.

Clients:

• Completes initial diagnostic assessments on all clients assigned (within 72 hours of intake) to determine treatment needs, as well as conducts ongoing assessments (every 6 months/annually depending on clinical need) to determine when clinical goals have been achieved and service delivery is no longer indicated.
• Develops initial treatment plans (within 30 days of intake) and updates treatment plans (every 90 days) to include age-appropriate clinical interventions/objectives/goals that are observable and measurable.
• Provides in-home, in-office, and online therapy to individuals, families, or groups as clinically indicated.
• Provides support and crisis management services as needed or as requested by the supervisor.
• Participates in Treatment Team and other service providers.
• Maintains all client documentation in the electronic record.
• Attends court hearings when necessary.

Work Environment: Office/ home and/or school environment; occasional travel to other office locations.

Work Hours: The therapist position is a part-time position based on the needs of the program. The therapist makes up their hours, but they must be flexible.

Education:

• Required a master's degree in human services, behavioral science or a related field and a professional mental health license.
• Experience with trauma-informed care and family/group therapy preferred.
• A minimum of one year of experience working with children, families, and other individuals with behavioral health issues.

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