
Oasis Center
Shelter Therapist
Oasis Center
Job Summary
To provide immediate crisis intervention/referral/intake services to clients referred through the crisis phone line and crisis walk-in services; provide counseling, case management, and aftercare services to assigned clients; actively participate in the program team.
Job Responsibilities
Direct Service
Essential Functions:
- Provide crisis intervention counseling services through the crisis phone line, and crisis walk-in service.
- Provide intake and assessment services to youth and families referred to the Shelter and Community-based Counseling program.
- Facilitate the referral process for potential clients.
- Provide primary counseling and case management for youth and families assigned.
- Attend weekly staffings/meetings and regular supervision.
- Document client interaction in a consistent and ethical manner.
- Participate with supervisor and appropriate specialists or consultants on specific case-related problems.
- Transport clients as needed.
- Conduct groups with families and teens through Multiple Family Groups, Peace Circles, afternoon groups, and other groups as needed.
- Related tasks as assigned.
- Provide individual, family, and group counseling services for youth and families who are experiencing a housing crisis.
- Utilize creative approaches to provide therapeutic support for youth beyond talk therapy or other traditional methods.
- Assist in a comprehensive assessment of youth’s needs to ensure youth are matched with appropriate interventions
- Operate from a family systems approach to support young people in family-strengthening efforts, as appropriate.
- Engage in a case conferencing approach with youth, case managers, and other parties as relevant to understand youth’s needs, strengths, and goals and to create a plan for services.
- Provide liaison, advocacy, and referral services with appropriate mental health centers, courts, physicians, school systems, the Department of Children’s Services, and others as needed.
- Provide crisis response support in helping youth mediate conflict with families, friends, peers, and roommates.
- Conduct therapeutic support groups with teens and families and other groups as needed
- Participate in clinical on-call rotation
- Provide clinical support to agency youth as needed.
Non-Essential Functions: None
Administration
Essential Functions:
- Maintain consistent and timely records, including relevant reports to meet funding and licensing
Requirements:
- Assist in the preparation of monitoring visits by funding and licensing sources.
- Participate in the hiring process and orientation of new staff when appropriate.
- Participate in staff and program development.
- Serve on intra-agency committees when requested or representation is significant to the agency mission.
- Provide direction, leadership, and consultation for staff, volunteers, and interns during the evening shift
- Provide formal supervision for interns
- Participate, as needed, in community education to inform about shelter services
Non-Essential Functions:
- Serve on related community committees when requested or representation is significant to the agency’s mission.
Qualifications
- Strong capacity to form meaningful, caring, and affirming relationships with all young people, including LGBTQ+ youth.
- Knowledge and ability to apply behavior management techniques, basic counseling principles, crisis intervention theory, group work theory, and systems theory.
- Knowledge and ability to access community resources.
- Knowledge of an ability to apply Positive Youth Development, Trauma-Informed Care, and evidence-informed practices based on an understanding of adolescent and family development.
- A clear understanding of racial inequities and other forms of discrimination and willingness to operate from an anti-oppression model.
- Understanding of and ability to deliver services through a low-barrier approach.
- Ability to use phone and computer systems.
- Ability to effectively communicate in oral and written form.
- Knowledge and ability to apply crisis intervention theory.
- Knowledge of adolescent development and family development.
- One year of relevant experience.
Additional Information
Benefits
- Free employee-only coverage: health, dental, vision.
- HSA w/employer contribution.
- 401K w/up to 3% match.
- Paid Parental Leave.
- Free LTD & Life Policy.
- PTO
How to Apply
Oasis Center – Therapist (paylocity.com)
Details
- Date Posted: May 31, 2024
- Type: Full-Time
- Job Function: Clinician
- Service Area: Children / Youth
- Salary Range: $42,000-$47,000