Open Positions:
Behavioral Health Therapist
Job description
About us
Families Plus is a mission driven non-profit company in Delta, CO. We all are excited to come alongside of children/youth and their families to help them grow up healthy despite poor social determinants of health. We use a multi-faceted wraparound model that is mental health based. In addition, we offer a full range of counseling services to all in the community including the wellness service, neurofeedback.
Our work environment includes:
● Flexible work hours and work environments
● Strong team collaboration
● A variety of work task that allow much creativity
● Peer specialist assistants
● Telehealth
● Gain energy from our interdisciplinary team who is working with the State of Colorado to pilot innovative behavioral health care for challenged children.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH THERAPIST
Families Plus is a mental health specialty clinic in Delta County Colorado, leading the state with innovative systems-of-care treatments for children who are experiencing behavior challenges and are living in families with resources insufficient to meet their needs. Families Plus provides wraparound services for youth and their families, through Therapists, Parent Partners, Youth Partners, an Outreach Team, active board members, and volunteer mentors. Behavioral Health Therapists not only oversee treatment for children and youth with complex needs, but balance their workload by providing psychotherapy for community members seeking behavioral health care from Families Plus.
Each Therapist is a licensed or licensure candidate as a mental health care professional under DORA. Their duties are as follows:
1. Provide individual and family therapy to children and youth using best evidence based practices.
2. Design and coordinate diverse wraparound services for the youth and their family.
3. Provide Psychotherapy for community members including individual counseling, couples therapy, family counseling, and counseling assisted by neuro-feedback.
Qualifications
● Master’s Degree in Counseling or related field
● Valid Colorado Driver’s License
● License to practice psychotherapy in the state of Colorado or candidate for licensure
● Has own, reliable transportation
● Passes background checks
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $52,000.00 - $65,000.00 commensurate with experience
Please email a resume to familiespluscolorado@gmail.com or call 970874-0464 for more information.
Parent PartnerJob descriptionAs a Parent Partner on a team of providers working directly with families, responsibilities will include the following:
- Refer and link clients to needed community and natural resources to optimize functioning.
- Provide role modeling of effective advocacy for the family and for the children in the community.
- Help parents with forms and paperwork that might be confusing and create barriers for them.
- Help parents get to appointments and meetings after the parents have tried and been unable to find transportation to attend these essential meetings.
- After initial modeling of reaching out for services and advocating for the child with the parent, gradually fade their role and help parents assume leadership and effectiveness advocating on their own behalf or finding needed help by themselves. Be able to tastefully say “no” to parent requests when the parents themselves are capable to accomplish or lead the task.
- Document all contacts with and for the family in the medical record on the same day that that contact occurred or at least within 24 hours. Sign all documentation contacts.
- Responsible to keep all client information confidential as required by HIPPA federal laws and the policies and procedures of Families Plus. This obligation persists even after employment ends.
- Must be able to utilize various software applications.
- Must be able to meet Families Plus charting requirements. Notes are due within 24 hours of the time of direct service (contact with the family or child).
- Other specific duties as assigned.
- Must be comfortable driving clients in your own vehicle once in a while. (will receive mileage reimbursement)
- Must be flexible and able to meet with families (over the phone and in person). There is some flexibility in creating your own work schedule, up to 20 hours per week. However, this largely depends on when families are available to meet with you.
- Must be comfortable in working one on one or in a small group setting.
- Pay in accordance with job skills and past experience.
Salary: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour
Benefits:
Flexible schedule
Schedule:
Monday to Friday
Education:
-High school or equivalent (Required)
License/Certification:
-Driver's License (Required)
Please send your resume to familiespluscolorado@gmail.com
Want to do more for Families Plus? Contact us about volunteer positions or how you think you can help our mission!
