Family-Based Intensive Treatment (FIT) Family Partner

About the role

Family-Based Intensive Treatment (FIT) is a new service within JRI's Community Service Agencies that provides a combination of medically necessary intensive family therapy, robust care coordination, and Family Partner engagement for eligible youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and their families. You will focus on improving the youth’s mental health concerns, while strengthening the family structure and support.

Responsibilities

• Convey your passion for helping others as part of a small, dedicated team (inclusive of a FIT Clinician and a Family Partner) working with youth and families.
• Support the clinical care of youth and their families in a home and community-based setting, effectively promoting improved family functioning.
• Utilize your caregiving experiences to enhance the lives of youth who are presenting with difficult and challenging behaviors, and their families.
• Support families in navigating multiple systems of care and enable parents and caregivers to learn effective advocacy skills.
• Work as part of a team to support the delivery of strength-based peer-to-peer education, coaching, role modeling, guidance, and support services.

Requirements

• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Applicants must have a minimum of an associate’s degree in a human services field and 1 year of experience working with the target population; or a high school diploma/GED and 2 years of experience working with the target population.
• Applicants should have lived experience as a parent or caregiver of a youth with emotional, behavioral or learning challenges and experience accessing systems for support for your child’s needs.
• Maintains a valid driver’s license.

Qualifications

• Must have a valid driver’s license.

Skills

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience working with families and youth with emotional, behavioral, or learning challenges.
• Ability to navigate multiple systems of care and provide effective advocacy skills.
• Passion for helping others and a commitment to improving family functioning.

Benefits

• $2,000 bilingual bonus for new hires who speak a second language fluently, other than English.
• Reimbursement for registration costs and annual fees for any professional license required for work such as LMHC, LCSW, LICSW, RN and more.
• Affordable Blue Cross medical and Delta Dental benefits.
• Retirement benefits including 401K matched up to $800 a year and pension after 5 years of employment.
• Tuition reimbursement up to almost $4000 per year and discounted tuition rates to select partnership colleges and universities.
• Free CEUs and training opportunities focused on evidence-based practices.
• Employee engagement groups, self-care resources, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Generous paid time off up to 19 days for full time employees in your first year.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $19.00 to $32.50 per hour. The listed range reflects what we reasonably and in good faith expect to pay for this role at the time of posting the position. The actual compensation an employee is offered may vary based on several factors such as experience, education, licensure, certifications and qualifications.

Schedule

This is a full-time position. You will be working in the North Shore and Merrimack Valley region, with the expectation of being in the Gloucester office once a week. All candidates must be available between Monday and Friday. Additionally, attendance at a mandatory staff meeting every Tuesday from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM and attendance for supervision once a week is required.