The Village Family Services is a community-based nonprofit organization focused on the prevention and treatment of child abuse and family violence. The agency serves children and families of primarily Latino descent living in the greater Los Angeles area that includes North Hollywood, Glendale, Burbank, Van Nuys, and San Fernando. Our holistic approach towards accomplishing our mission is to provide comprehensive bilingual/bicultural mental health services that address and prevent child abuse and neglect. Services are provided through five major areas: Mental Health, Foster Care, Domestic Violence, Parenting Support, and Wraparound Services.
Current position openings are listed below. If you would like to apply for a position, please submit resume and cover letter to
Human Resources at hr@thevillagefs.org.
Minimum Requirements:
- BBS registered Marriage and Family therapist or Social Work intern or LMFT/Bilingual (Spanish/English)
- Excellent assessment skills
- Must have strong communication skills and ability to join with clients
- Strong time management and organizational skills
- Ability to manage stress
- Ability to work in a team-based setting
- Two or more years of direct practice experience working with children experiencing emotional/behavioral challenges
- Maintain a non-judgmental attitude toward families
- Maintain required licenses and certifications to perform role
Additional Qualifications:
- Knowledge of Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (DMH) paperwork
- Evidence Based Treatment knowledge and experience is a plus
- Experience with children
Duties and Responsibilities - Essential for Theraputic Piece:
- Assess clients for psychosocial, emotional, developmental, medical and educational needs.
- Meets with clients individually, in home, and in group sessions for therapy.
- Assesses clients for therapeutic needs.
- Makes appropriate referrals as needed.
- Writes progress reports to other agencies and professionals as needed.
- Reports suspected/alleged child abuse.
- Ensures all communication requirements are met on each case.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Ability to connect with children/families under stress.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Universal Engagement Skills: The competent The Village Family Services employee who primarily functions as an arranger/organizer of services and supports will consistently demonstrate the capacity to:
- Meet, greet and make youth/young adult and family feel welcome
- Explain and clarify their role and the role of services
- Assess immediate risk for safety and coordinate resources for stabilizing that risk
- Arrange for the collection of relevant information regarding the family’s story, current situation, and family strengths and needs
- Coordinate team membership for planning team
- Clarify and communicate initial conditions that brought referrals to the agency for help
- Complete regulatory documents and outcome measures in a timely manner
- Reach agreement with consumer and family about privacy needs
Specific Engagement Skills: The skilled Facilitator should consistently demonstrate the capacity to:
- Report stabilization plan, risk management issues, and safety plan to supervisory people or groups for review
- Coordinate necessary assessments and services as determined by initial needs/conditions
- Open plan in chart and commence collection of information into this instrument
- Write strengths and needs summaries that describes the family by life domains
- Coordinate with Clinical staff to ensure the collection of information necessary for completion of all Mental Health plan and service documentation
- Explore, identify and document family, kin, friends and all connections to the child/family for all new referrals
- Build opportunities for ongoing support and conversation with referred families
- Explain/discuss the care process in a way that makes sense to the young person and family and clarify next steps for people being helped
Universal Planning Skills: The competent The Village Family Services employee who primarily functions as an arranger/organizer of services and supports will consistently demonstrate the capacity to: Organize team members for a planning meeting
- Engage team members in developing an overall plan of care that includes a team mission statement, addresses initial conditions that brought the consumer/family for help, builds on strengths, addresses needs, documents safety contingencies, details actions and specifies and evaluation process
- Guide the team members towards open, strengths based, family friendly problem solving
- Coordinate and maintain necessary paperwork
- Locate, engage and coordinate services and resources across The Village Family Services, system, community and family resources
Specific Planning Skills: The skilled Facilitator should consistently demonstrate the capacity to:
- Facilitate agreement on mission statements, initial conditions, strengths and needs, and action plan
- Develop, plan and implement evaluation strategies to determine effectiveness of interventions
- Develop a detailed crisis/safety plan that outlines anticipated disruptions and includes preventative actions
- Solicit feedback from team members
- Lead and mediate discussion around conflict, difference of opinion and sensitive issues present for each member of the team
- Ensure that all plans are agreed upon and signed off on by all team members
- Seek guidance, review and approval for programmatic, service an flexible funding requests for each Individual Plan of Care
- Advocate and insure implementation of appropriate services that meet client needs
- Maintain respectful communication with all internal and external team members and partners
- Actively distinguish between family focused activities and other focused processes
- Craft family focused, strength based interventions
- Model and support values bases brainstorming options
- Promote effective team development through partnerships with families, systems and organizations
Universal Implementation Skills: The competent The Village Family Services employee who primarily functions as an arranger/organizer of services and supports will consistently demonstrate the capacity to:
- Facilitate communication among all team members in planning meetings regarding the follow through, timeliness and outcomes of planned interventions
- Coordinate and allocate resources needed to implement the interventions outlined in the plan of care
- Coordinate additional services (i.e. health, medication, psychological testing) and provide linkages / referral to these services as identified in IPC
- Involve team members in decisions to make changes as needed
- Maintain a healing and helpful relationship with youth, young adult and family
Specific Implementation Skills: The skilled Facilitator should consistently demonstrate the capacity to:
- Maintain future oriented, mission focused team process
- Present and update family strengths continuously
- Coordinate and allocate resources needed to implement the plan
- Track, assess, and analyze the efficacy of the interventions in the plan
- Coordinate and modify crisis/safety response
- Modify plans through team decision making processes
- Document and distribute agreements, plans and progress to all team members
Universal Transition Skills: The competent The Village Family Services employee who primarily functions as an arranger/organizer of services and supports will consistently demonstrate the capacity to:
- Empower team members to assess the appropriateness of a shift into the transition phase
- Analyze progress toward the meeting of service goals
- Review existing crisis response strategies
- Empower family members to revisit and revise safety plan as needed
- Prepare all necessary reports for referring and participating agencies related to the close of service
Specific Transition Skills: The skilled Facilitator should consistently demonstrate the capacity to:
- Assist parent in assessing usefulness of interventions
- Encourage family to continue to increase natural supports
- Develop a written summary of family accomplishments since the service entry
- Prepare and distribute a specific written transition plan that outlines timelines for transition and post-service resource options
- Ensure alternate natural supports are in place and being utilized by the family
Team:
- Exercise tact and sensitivity in performance of job duties
- Proactively works to ensure that all information is appropriately communicated to other both orally and through maintenance of agency logs and records
- Treat all staff with respect, including arriving punctually for all shifts and schedules meetings; exhibit flexibility in scheduling; follow through on gossip or denigrate communicate both honestly and positively; does not gossip or denigrate
- Develop relationships of trust and respect with all staff members with whom he/she interacts
- Work cooperatively with all staff, including those not involved in program delivery
- Provide and accept communication and feedback to strengthen overall programs and activities
- Seek assistance and advice when appropriate
- Complete all required reports and documentation in a timely manner; ensure integrity of documentation
- Actively seek to solve problems
Commitment to Mission, Value, and Philosophy:
- Understand and demonstrate commitment to agency mission, value, and philosophy in performing skills specific to role
- Assume responsibility for meeting and maintaining all licensing or agency requirements for personal health, training or other certifications
- Know and consistently implement agency safety and health procedures
- Know and follow agency polices and procedures in carrying out all job duties
- Represent the Agency professionally and appropriately with all constituencies and in the community
- Perform all other duties as assigned
Additional Information:
- All positions are subject to qualification review, clean driving record, medical release and DOJ fingerprinting.
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