What are the responsibilities and job description for the Counselor position at Hope Alliance?
Hope Alliance is hiring fora Counselor! This position is full-time and supports our mission to empower victims of family and sexual violence by providing compassionate, trauma-informed counseling and advocacy services.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTION: Provide trauma-informed counseling to adult and child survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide clinical services, including individual, couples, group, and family counseling, according to established psychological principles and in a manner that empowers clients in their healing process.
- Provide hotline, intake, crisis intervention, advocacy and case management services in-person and on the hotline, informally assessing for emotional, physical, social, and educational needs of clients, formulating individualized service plans.
- Actively seek out and liaison with relevant community agencies and resources in order to create a continuum of services that elevates the best interest of clients.
- Provide clinical expertise to other team members and distribute information about working with survivors of trauma.
- Cover on-call rotation, responding to survivors in community settings such as hospitals, law enforcement agencies and other social service organizations.
- Maintain communication with others and work to fulfill the agency’s mission, vision and philosophy. This includes attending regularly scheduled team meetings.
- Recognize personal emotions, thoughts and values and how they influence behavior, managing their effects on service provision.
- Report any incident of child or elder abuse to the appropriate Hope Alliance team members.
- Assist with the collection and maintenance of data for statistical and programming purposes. Assist with recruitment, training, and engagement of volunteers and interns as well as community education efforts.
- Perform other duties as approved and assigned by VP of Client Services.