Position Description: (Summarize the essential functions of the job.)

Therapist will provide direct home-based interventions to address risk factors, increase protective factors and ensure the safety of families.

Responsibilities:

• Reports to assigned program supervisor or covering supervisor.
• Provides home-based clinical treatment utilizing the Functional Family Therapy – Therapeutic Case Management (FFT-TCM) model to assigned caseload of up to 8 cases and provides coverage for peer's caseload as needed Manages the extensive travel requirements involved in serving families in their homes.
• Conducts assessments including review of referral information, identifying and engaging key participants, identifying relational patterns, and individualized treatment planning.
• Engages families to sign for services and completes intakes with families within the required ACS timeframes.
• Adheres to model expectations and implement with fidelity including the timely completion of progress notes, session planning guides, session impact scales and appointment notes in the Care4 documentation system.
• Actively participate in weekly consultation and supervision and site visits when they occur.
• Identify and address family risk factors that give rise to possible child removal, ACS involvement, and out of home placement due to continued referral behavior or new risk/safety factors. This includes the completion of safety plans and incident reports if necessary.
• Manages the extensive documentation requirements in all databases to successfully comply with mandates from agency, ACS and model.
• Identify community-based resources for families, collaborate and build relationships with stakeholders/providers (i.e., ACS, schools, doctors, mental health providers, courts, etc.) to monitor participation in services and accompany families to appointments if needed.
• Provides 24/7 coverage during the week and participates on a weekend on-call rotational schedule as applicable.
• Participates in all required agency, model and stakeholder trainings, individual and group coaching and staff meetings.
• Consistently meets all program and model Key Performance Indicators (including session pacing, required casework contacts, successful client outcomes, timely completion of Family Assessment Service Plans, data entry in all systems, etc.).
• Maintains clear, concise and timely documentation of treatment efforts in progress notes and Family Assessment and Service Planning (FASP) that demonstrate compliance with the FFT-TCM Model and supervisory review feedback.
• Other duties as assigned.

Organizational expectations include:

• Regular and punctual time and attendance.
• Consistent demonstrated commitment to The Foundling’s BHAG, mission, vision and values (Compassion, Dignity, Family and Community, Diversity, Excellence).
• Adherence to The Foundling’s employee policies, Code of Conduct and applicable rules, laws, regulations or bargaining agreements. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

1.  How much on-the-job time is spent in the following activities?  Show the amount of time by checking the appropriate boxes below.                                                                                        Amount of Time              

2. Does this job require that weight is lifted or force is exerted?  If so, how much and how often?  Check the appropriate boxes below.                                                                                   Amount of Time

3. Does this job have any special vision requirements?   Check all that apply.

          Close Vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)

          Distance Vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)

          Color Vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors)

          Peripheral Vision (ability to observe area that can be seen up & down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point)

          Depth Perception (3-Dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships)

          Ability to Adjust Focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus) 

          No Special Vision Requirements

4. Make notes on the specific job duties that require the physical demands selected above.

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WORK ENVIRONMENT:

5. How much exposure to environmental conditions does this job require?  Please list below.  (E.g., Chemical use, outdoor weather conditions, etc.)

Amount of Time              

6.             How much noise is typical for the work environment of this job? Check the appropriate level below.

          Quiet (Examples:  private office, library)

          Moderate Noise (Example:  business office with ringing telephones and/or computer printers)

          Loud Noise (Example: equipment, such as a vacuum cleaner)       

7.  Make notes on the specific job duties that are affected by the environmental conditions selected above.

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8. Comments: Include any other additional relevant information to this position.