Victims Services Therapist

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Include the following:

• Attend required trainings and consultation calls to become trained in appropriate evidence based treatments.
• Screen referrals for sexual assault related trauma.
• Provide the appropriate evidence based treatments consumers who meet the criteria for treatment from the program.
• Attend staff meetings.
• Provide care based on ethical concepts, adhering to established standards of practice and engage in activities or behaviors that characterize professionalism.
• Provide information regarding resources within the community to child victims of sexual assault, child abuse, and domestic violence.
• Ensure the accuracy, content and completeness of client files.
• Provides services within time requirement as set forth in Agency policy and procedures.
• Provide services as documented in client treatment plan.
• Obtain eight hours of continuing education related to sexual violence to fulfill the Administrative Regulations governing the regional rape crisis centers.
• Refrain from assuming any duty that is unrelated to and/or interferes with the responsibilities of the position.
• Respond to emergency situation in a timely fashion.
• Demonstrate the ability to work effectively with other team members, as part of a multidisciplinary team, and independently, when necessary.
• Other duties may be assigned when necessary.

Qualifications: Must have a minimum of a Master's Degree in psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, professional counseling, psychiatric nursing, or art therapy. Master's Degree must be from an accredited school.

Must have a certificate or license to practice a mental health discipline and meet all requirements of the respective board.

Have one year clinical or counseling experience post bachelor's.

Must have 40 hours of training on sexual violence related issues within three months of employment.

Submit to and pass a criminal record check and a drug screening test.

Hours: Monday through Friday 8:00 am until 4:30 pm. Other times may be required with the job.

Required Job Skills:

• Oral and Written Communication Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Ability to exercise good judgment, tact, diplomacy and compassion when problem solving, handling conflict or in a crisis situation.
• Ability to complete record keeping in a timely fashion
• Ability to formulate treatment objectives for the person served
• Ability to get along with diverse personalities and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to work well with people of all races, backgrounds and needs.
• Knowledgeable of health promotion and disease prevention and differential diagnosis and disease management.
• Knowledgeable of Behavioral Health Concepts and how to incorporate concepts into practical application with health promotion and wellness education.

Additional Responsibilities:

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 must be made to enable the individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physically able to reach, push, pull, stoop, stand, walk and lift up to 20 pounds
• Possess a valid Driver’s License and maintain a safe driving record if required for job performance.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations must be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions, may be off-site from normal office location or placed at a Residential Program.

The noise level in the work environment is mild to moderate.

Environmental Data and Job Hazards:

• Hours of work are structured into 7.5 or 8.0 hour blocks of time but may be subject to irregular and/or flexible hours based on needs or demands.
• Position may require duties to include routine or reasonable anticipated tasks or procedures where there is a degree of actual or potential exposure to blood or other infectious materials.
• All staff are required to participate in yearly trainings regarding infection control and safety in the environment including hazardous waste and blood borne pathogens.
• All new staff must attend training regarding handling physical, verbal threats, acts of violence or other escalating and potential dangerous situations including when police need to be summoned.

Required Job Performance:

• Successful Performance Evaluation rating of 3 or above. A Performance Improvement Plan will be initiated on all scores below a 3 rating. An employee will be terminated if the Performance Improvement Plan is viewed as unsuccessful after 2 attempts.