What are the responsibilities and job description for the Foster Youth Counselor position at AACI?
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Foster Youth Counselor
The Foster Youth Counselor is responsible for overseeing the care coordination for youth clients in the foster care system or at risk of out of home placement. The ICC brings together all the providers and caregivers in a client’s life to assist the client in stabilizing their symptoms and improve functioning. This position leads the Child and Family Team meetings and provides direct therapy, skill building, case management, and parent sessions to the client and family.
We can offer you:
Flexibility: Hybrid remote work with a company laptop.
Balanced Workload: Realistic caseload for focused support.
Time Off: 12 Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, vacation, and sick time.
Health Priority: 95% premium coverage with four Health Plan Options.
Financial Future: 403(b) Retirement Plan with a match.
Language Bonus: Additional pay for bilingual staff.
Wellness: Free access to Headspace mindfulness app.
Loan Forgiveness: Eligibility for State Loan Forgiveness Program
Duties and responsibilities
- Provide collaborative, culturally sensitive, strengths based, client centered individual/group/family counseling/rehabilitation and crisis intervention services to youth and their families.
- Coordinate care for clients with a multidisciplinary clinical team and outside agencies.
- Develop effective working relationships with outside agencies and organizations.
- Facilitate referrals to community resources and performs targeted case management services.
- Complete all documentation per Medi-Cal, Santa Clara County and AACI standards within expected deadlines.
- Attend Child and Family Team (CFT) meetings, including information gathered during these meetings into client’s treatment plan and CANS assessment.
- Develop culturally relevant assessment and treatment plans.
- Participate in clinical supervisions, consultations, team meetings, trainings, and after hours rotation.
- Licensed Clinicians only- Complete and maintain LPS 5150 Authorization certification and provide officer of the day support.
- Complete other related duties and projects as assigned.
Qualifications
Qualifications
Education & Experience:
- Master’s degree in psychology, social work, or a related field, or equivalent training and experience.
- Two years or more experience working with high-needs children and families.
- Experience working with the Department of Social Services, Mental Health, and other county agencies preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
- Knowledge of DSM-V criteria for diagnosing behavioral health illnesses.
- Knowledge of trauma-informed and evidenced-based practices (i.e., CBT, DBT, ACT).
- Understanding of cultural issues, community resources and family dynamics.
- Knowledge of legal and ethical requirements of board of licensure.
- Knowledge of mandated reporting laws in California.
- Knowledge of community and county resources to facilitate referrals and coordination with appropriate agencies.
- Ability to exercise independent clinical judgment within the scope of the program responsibilities.
- Ability to implement evidenced-based techniques to address client’s symptomatology and functional impairments.
- Good working knowledge with Microsoft Office Suite. Knowledge of or aptitude to learn Epic health record system.
- Ability to maintain a valid California driver license, current personal auto insurance, and an MVR sufficient to maintain insurability under agency auto liability.
- Verbal and written fluency in English required; Bilingual skills in a second language (particularly Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese) desired but not required.
Competencies:
- Ability to communicate well with people of diverse cultural professional and experiential background.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Working conditions
This job requires you to be in the community, in client’s homes, and other community partner sites. Work is often conducted in an office environment. Basic safety precautions and use of protective clothing or gear may be required. Working with clients who are seriously mentally ill, or high risk may increase exposure to secondary trauma. Driving is essential to the function of this job. The job requires travel up to 25% of the time.
Physical requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to regularly sit for extended periods of time and regularly operate a computer and use manual dexterity for tasks such as keyboarding. The mental demands of the job include regular comprehension, reasoning and decision making, interpreting and analyzing data, organizing, reading, writing, and resilience.
AACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Salary : $73,000 - $82,000
