Rehabilitation Therapist

About the role

The REGIONS Site Secure Program is a secure residential treatment program for up to 16 male youth. The program aims to provide a home-like environment with a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, gender-specific, linguistically appropriate, strengths-based, and relationship-driven milieu to help youth improve their social, physical, and emotional well-being.

Responsibilities

• Develop and supervise specialized programs that target individualized treatment goals.
• Collaborate with clinical and operations staff on the development and delivery of programs.
• Oversee the implementation of therapy programs.
• Monitor client progress to determine appropriate therapeutic modality.
• Analyze and evaluate the accomplishment of program objectives.
• Perform quality assurance audits to ensure program compliance with all standards.
• Establish and maintain professional boundaries with all staff, youth, and providers.
• Serve as a role model to youth and staff, modeling pro-social behaviors.
• As necessary, utilize approved verbal and/or physical de-escalation techniques to eliminate youth's harm to self, harm to others, significant property/program destruction, and escape, maintaining communication with necessary parties.
• Work collaboratively with internal and external providers.

Requirements

• The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree related to rehabilitation/recreation therapy and experience in a residential treatment program.
• Equivalent work experience and training in therapeutic rehabilitation with children and adolescents with emotional or mental challenges will be considered.
• Understanding and knowledge of gender-specific, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and linguistically appropriate issues and needs.
• Knowledge of behavior motivation and psychosocial interventions.
• Knowledge of child psychology and development.
• Strong emotional intelligence.
• Able to interact with multi-cultural populations.
• Crisis management skills.
• Leadership, decision-making, communication, interpersonal, and organizational/prioritization skills.
• Adaptability, flexibility, and resourcefulness.
• To share the belief that people can change and individuals in need deserve quality services and an opportunity to succeed.
• Familiarity with relevant state and federal laws.
• To have and maintain a valid CT driver’s license and reliable transportation.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.
• Candidates with lived experience are encouraged to apply.

Training Requirements and Work Environment Conditions

• Selected candidates will be required to complete and pass a mandatory 120-hour training curriculum within their first year of employment.
• Training sessions will be conducted during standard hours (8:00 AM to 4:00 PM).
• Thereafter, employees must complete a minimum of 40 hours of training annually.
• The training program includes Safe Crisis Management, which involves both verbal de-escalation techniques and physical restraint methods used to maintain the safety of both youth and staff during crisis situations.

Work Environment Note

Candidates should be aware that the position may involve exposure to assaultive or abusive behavior from youth, and there is a potential risk of injury. Exposure to communicable diseases is also possible due to the nature of the work.

Pay

$27.42 per hour

Schedule

12pm – 8 pm, Sunday - Thursday

Location

Hamden, CT

Agency Description

One of the oldest organizations of its kind in the country, Community Partners in Action (CPA) was founded nearly 150 years ago to champion criminal justice reform and advocate for preserving the dignity of those in and out of prison. Through our programs that include reentry and housing, youth initiatives, a nationally recognized Prison Arts Program, and holistic alternatives to incarceration, we provide a long-term impact that positively transforms individuals and society at large. Annually serving over 4,000 individuals throughout Connecticut, our work is possible due to partnerships with and support from individuals, government, private funders, organizations, and businesses.

CPA is guided by our BEDI (Belonging, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) culture. WE ARE COMMITTED to building and maintaining an inclusive, equitable workplace and COMPELLED to have a constructive impact on criminal justice reform in CT that ends racial inequities and ensures the humanity and dignity of those interacting with the system. Read more about our BEDI culture at https://cpa-ct.org/our-bedi-journey/.