In Home Therapy Clinician

Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions

• Work in collaboration with team members and the entire family, or a subset of the family, to implement focused, structural, or strategic interventions and behavioral techniques to:
  • enhance problem-solving, limit-setting, risk management/safety planning, and communication
  • build skills to strengthen the family, advance therapeutic goals, or improve ineffective patterns of interaction
  • identify and utilize community resources
  • develop and maintain natural supports for the youth and parent/caregiver(s) in order to promote sustainability of treatment gains
• Provide Family Therapy in a home-based and community-based setting.
• Maintain positive working relationships with IHT team, including supervisor and (Therapeutic Training and Support staff) TT&S, in addition to other collateral contacts and community providers.
• Develop and update required assessments and treatment planning documentation with youth and families within timeline per agency and program expectations.
• Utilize diagnostic skills involving practical knowledge of the DSM-5 and assessment tools.
• Provide diagnostic and treatment consultation to other agency programs and community agencies.
• Maintain production expectations and record keeping requirements.
• Participate in appropriate clinical and administrative staff meetings.
• Engage in effective Care Coordination and Collaboration.
• Participate in independent education and training opportunities.
• Provide psychoeducation and advocacy as appropriate.