Job Details

Job Location: New Haven, CT 06511

Position Type: Full Time

Education Level: Graduate Degree

Salary Range: $55,000.00 - $70,000.00 Salary/year

Travel Percentage: Up to 25%

Job Shift: Day

EMPLOYER INFORMATION

Clifford Beers is a mental health clinic serving children and families. Our mission is to provide integrated services addressing mental, physical, and social determinants in order to improve health, resiliency and quality of life for children, families and communities.

PURPOSE

The implementation site uses the Functional Family Therapy (FFT) modality with (target population(s) – (each) with its own referral and reporting requirements. This program operates under the direction of the director FFT. The therapist will provide, at a minimum, weekly one hour, home-based family therapy sessions to clients. Therapists will utilize the FFT model with families who have adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18. Therapists will be required to carry a caseload of 10 to 15 families, providing services anywhere from eight to 26 weeks. This position requires flexibility in hours to meet families when they are available.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Deliver Evidence-Based Therapy: Implement the FFT model with youth and their families to reduce conflict, improve communication, and change problem behaviors.
• Conduct Home and Community Visits: Meet with families in their own homes, communities, or occasionally in an office setting.
• Assess Dynamics & Plan Treatment: Through assessment of patterns, family system, assess safety and risk, and develop targeted behavioral goals.
• Provide Crisis Intervention: Manage acute behavioral flare-ups and help families build emergency safety and coping plans.
• Maintain Documentation: Track treatment progress, submit detailed session notes, and input data into specialized clinical databases in a timely manner as required.
• Coordinate with Stakeholders: Collaborate closely with child welfare agencies (like DCF/ACS), the juvenile justice system, schools, and other involved professionals.
• Ensure to maintain model fidelity: To the specific FFT treatment phases (Engagement, Motivation, Relational Change, and Behavior Change).
• Cultural Competency: Ability to engage respectfully with families from diverse backgrounds.
• Strengths-Based Focus: A non-judgmental approach that empowers the family to identify their own dynamics and drive their own change.
• Perform other duties as requested by direct supervisor and agency leadership.
• Responds in a positive and respectful manner to diversity around the agency’s services, client and family population and staff.

TRAVEL

This role may require travel throughout the Greater New Haven area each day.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

Indoors, Environmentally controlled with occasional exposure to outdoor weather. Close physical proximity to coworkers and clients.

COMPETENCIES:

Must demonstrate the following competencies:

• Diversity and Inclusion: Foster an environment in which all members of the CBCCC community, from staff to partners and clients, are treated equitably and are able to contribute fully and meaningfully to the mission of CBCCC.
• Integrity: Act ethically with honesty and consistency regardless of the situation.
• Excellence: Commitment to deliver outstanding practices in both managing the organization, service delivery, and collaborating with partners.
• Communication: The ability to express oneself clearly and professionally both in writing, conversations, and in nonverbal communication with others.

AAP Statement

Clifford Beers Community Care Center (CBCCC), is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We conform to all the laws, statutes, and regulations concerning equal employment opportunities and affirmative action. We strongly encourage women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans to apply to all of our job openings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability status, Genetic Information & Testing, Family & Medical Leave, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity or Expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We prohibit Retaliation against individuals who bring forth any complaint, orally or in writing, to the employer or the government, or against any individuals who assist or participate in the investigation of any complaint or otherwise oppose discrimination.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

A Master's degree in Social Work (MSW), Mental Health Counseling, Psychology, or a closely related field. Licensure: Often requires an active, license-eligible status (e.g., LMSW, LCSW, LMFT-A, LMFT LPC-A, LPC, or equivalent). Preferred experience: Experience working with adolescents, complex family systems, or the juvenile justice and child welfare systems.

SKILLS

Must exhibit knowledge and or proven ability in delivering developmentally appropriate services according to the program being supported, while demonstrating the following skills:

• Ability and willingness to work with families in their own homes.
• Flexibility: The ability to schedule evening or weekend sessions to accommodate the families' availability.
• Ability to work independently, as well as contribute to a team.
• Very good interpersonal/communication skills.
• Strong clinical skills.
• Ability to internalize and work within the FFT philosophy and model.
• Ability to work with adolescents.
• Ability to work with respect for cultural diversity.
• Ability to engage families who may not want the service.
• Ability to adapt and individualize program interventions to utilize family strengths and skills.
• Commitment to empowering families to solve their own problems.
• Belief in the capacity of people to grow and change.
• Ability to establish a mutually respectful relationship, in which the family is a full partner, empowered to solve their own problems.
• Ability to intervene decisively, when necessary, to protect family members.
• Ability to set appropriate boundaries and limits for best practice.