Job Description
Department: LifeMarks/Trauma Grant
Job Status: Full Time
Reports To: Managing Director of Behavioral Health
Position Supervises: Data Specialist, Trauma Therapists, Intake & Outreach Specialist
Work Schedule: Full-time, requiring flexibility
POSITION SUMMARY
Perform coordinative, managerial, supervisory, clinical, and direct service tasks essential in the delivery of outpatient and inpatient residential therapeutic services. Provide leadership in creative program design, implementation, and integration of clinical services within the organization. Provide direct services to clients as a therapist.
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS STATEMENT(S)
Program
- Direct services related to the Trauma Grant
- Ensure the provision of high quality individual, family and group therapy
- Coordinate the provision of clinical staff supervision, case staffings and casework reviews
- Provide community education to prospective constituents
- Coordinate and facilitate stakeholder meetings
- Conduct outreach and engagement for VOAD Youth and Family Trauma Center
- Represent the agency at service/client management-related meetings as appropriate
- Provide direct services to include, but not be limited to client casework, intake, assessment, crisis intervention, therapeutic support or counseling, referral, community education and/or outreach
- Provide consultation, supervision, and evaluation of key personnel
- Provide and/or coordinate training and education essential to service integration and delivery of therapeutic services
- Supervise clinical experiences for agency personnel working toward professional licensure and masters level interns as appropriate
- Work with third party evaluator to conduct evaluation of VOAD NCTSI
- Ensure adherence to grant guidelines and reporting requirements.
POSITIONS QUALIFICATIONS
SKILLS & ABILITIES
Education: Advanced degree in counseling, social work, psychology or related field, with the highest level of licensure, within that field, for South Dakota
Experience: Minimum of five years clinical experience required; experience in creating and maintaining excellence in providing clinical services; experience working with children, adolescents and families who have experienced trauma; familiarity with American Indian and/or other minority populations preferred
Skills: Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Certifications & Licenses:
Other Requirements: Must pass all applicable background checks.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
A. Ability to Stand, Walk, sit, manually manipulate, reach outward and above shoulders, speak, climb, crawl, squat, kneel, and bend on a daily basis
B. Capability to Lift, carry, push or pull up to 20 lbs on a daily basis