Counselor
Counselor
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Job Description
Job Details
Description
Prevention Counselor
Northern Rivers Family Services
As a Prevention Counselor you will provide supportive counseling and case planning services to county residents. Your focus will be to help parents caregivers and children succeed by drawing on their natural strengths while addressing the risks that impact safety permanency and wellbeing. You will provide services in the home school and community. You will report to Clinical Coordinator of the Parsons Schenectady Prevention Program. You will work a flexible schedule with some remote work opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain a caseload of up to ten families and meet with each family weekly.
- Engage and sustain engagement of families throughout course of treatment.
- Assess individual(s) and family(s) including use of assessment tools to the position.
- Identify and discuss the strengths risk factors and service needs which influence the health and safety of a client/family.
- Develop with the family and other service providers mutually agreed upon treatment goals.
- Facilitate Family Team Meetings and other service plan reviews to assess progress and identify any needed modifications to treatment planning.
- Provide therapeutic and case planning services to children and families.
- Establish and maintain working relationships with colleagues case managers and collaterals.
- Participate in weekly or biweekly supervision and program Team Meetings.
- Maintain case record and complete all paperwork: status sheets progress notes service plans correspondence discharge summaries. Observing program contract agency policy COA and state mandates.
Requirements and Education:
- Bachelors degree in Social Work or related field with three to five years of human services experience required.
- Valid drivers license and reliable access to a vehicle required
- General knowledge of the child welfare system and an ability to work with children and adults required.
Benefits
- Health care package: medical dental and vision
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off
- Holiday Pay
- 401 (K) plan
- Life Insurance
- Loan repayment assistance
- Free training/CEU opportunities
About Northern Rivers
At Northern Rivers Family of Services we work together to make a difference in our clients lives. Northern Rivers empowers children adults and families to change their lives and build stronger communities.
Northern RiversFamily of Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire great people from a variety of backgrounds not because it is the right thing to do but because it makes us stronger! All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race color religion sex orientation gender identity national origin veteran or disability status or any othercharacteristicprotected under applicable law. We cherishthe unique contributions of our diverse staff and are building a culture where everyone has the opportunity to do the meaningful work.
Qualifications
Employment Type
Full-Time
