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The Intensive Family Intervention Therapist position is focused on providing intensive in-home individual/family mental health counseling using evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches of care for children and adolescents at high risk of out of home placement or returning home from inpatient or residential treatment.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Providing individual/family mental health counseling using evidence based and trauma informed approaches of care.
• Commitment to providing consistent, ongoing services to clients.
• Participate in coordination of care with a multi-disciplinary treatment team.
• Coordinating with a team to provide crisis intervention as necessary to enhance and restore functioning.
• Participate in weekly individual supervision with team lead.
• Meet or exceed agency required productivity and documentation standards.
• Must be flexible to work afterschool hours and weekends to accommodate clients served.
• Travel required
• Other duties as assigned

Core Competencies

• Interpersonal Skills & Communication: Demonstrated emotional intelligence with an ability to balance an empathy forward response with families and throughout the organization. Enjoys working closely with other people to understand their concerns and seeks out the ways our workplace might address them. Able to use storytelling to advance a concept or idea.
• Professionalism: Confidence, articulation, ability to receive criticism and feedback well. Ability to resolve conflicts.
• Organization & Time Management: Organizes work, effectively prioritizes, and sets short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them. Aligns communication, people, processes, and resources to drive success. Organizes information and data to identify/explain trends, problems, and their causes.
• Teamwork & Collaboration: Contributes to common goal, maintains open communication with team members, asks for help when necessary, encourages involvement.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Self-aware, attentive listener, people-oriented, cognizant of bias, cultural intelligence; demonstrating a respect for divergent viewpoints; an awareness of and sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the population served, thereby contributing to an environment that is equitable, inclusive, and cooperative.
• Flexibility: Adapts effectively to change by accepting changes in processes readily and with an optimistic perspective of the resulting benefits; readily accepts new technology as part of his/her job and uses it to continually improve efficiency or the quality of his/her work products.

Mandatory Requirements

• Minimum of a Master’s degree in a psychology/social work/human services-related discipline with at least 2 years of experience required
• Must be at least license eligible - Current licensure status in the state of Georgia (fully licensed LPC/LCSW/LMFT) or
• Licensure pursuit status (LMSW, LAPC, LAMFT) for candidates who have recently completed a master’s degree. Must have qualified clinician providing supervision
• Must be able to pass DBHDD background check (required prior to providing any services to clients)
• State-mandated training: Relias, CPR/First Aid, CPI - must be completed within the first 30 days of hire, Relias training is at no cost, the cost of CPR/First Aid and CPI are not covered by GFIT
• Excellent organization, communication, and time management strategies
• Willingness to travel to meet within clients in the Gwinnett County area
• Availability to work full-time with a flexible schedule, including after-school hours and weekends.
• Receptivity to feedback/constructive criticism

Preferred Requirements

• Bilingual skills advantageous
• Experience in substance abuse treatment or CADC  (Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor) certification is a plus
• Past experience with Notenetic preferred
• Knowledge of Medicaid/CMO compliance requirements preferred
• Ability to meet the requirements of a full-time position that involves schedule flexibility and travel of up to one hour or less to meet clients in person.
• Individuals who are prompt in communication, have collaborative personalities, and demonstrate a passion and knowledge for mental health and human services will be considered. Phone screen and any Indeed assessments requested must be completed for consideration.

Education:

• Master's (Required)

Experience:

• Behavioral health: 3 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• GA driver's license (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Gwinnett, GA (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 75% (Required)

Work Location: On the road