Residential Counselor
Lutheran Services Florida
- Homestead, FL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide individual crisis counseling.
- Provide intake assessment, psychosocial, suicide risk.
- Provide family orientations, assessment, counseling, and reunification.
- Provide individual and family aftercare counseling services to former residents and their families.
- Provide rotating “on-call” services.
- Provide group counseling activities and social skill instructions.
- Provide case management, crisis intervention, telephone crisis and referral inquiries, evaluations, and recommendations.
- Fulfill necessary administrative duties as needed.
- Establish goals and objectives for individual and group programs.
- Provide “in-home” crisis counseling as needed for family mediation.
- Advocate for clients with community agencies, courts, C & F, schools, etc.
- Participate in community outreach programs.
- House coverage as needed in emergencies.
- Available to travel.
- Participate in and provide staff professional training.
- Provide direct supervision of YCS staff and emergency house coverage as needed in emergencies.
- Serves as an Educational Liaison
- Other duties assigned by the Manager or Supervisor.
- Ability to drive, use phone, sit for long periods of time, write case notes, and filing.
- Master’s degree in human services or related.
- Other requirements as may be required by the grant source.
- Two or more years experience in adolescent and family counseling, facilitating group sessions, and performing intake, psychosocial/risk assessments. Experience with troubled youth and their families.
- Must be well organized, able to work effectively with others, good communicator, and loyal team player.
- Must demonstrate sensitivity to our service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics and needs.
- Reports to Clinical Director.
- Team player with co-workers and administrators.
- Accurate, complete, and timely documentation of client cases.
- Accurate, complete, and timely submission of required statistical reports.
- Adherence to all licensing and quality assurance standards.
- Clinical liaison to DJJ, courts, schools, and community providers.
- Adherence to Agency policies and procedures.
- Attend all required training.
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- Teladoc (24/7 online access to doctors)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employer paid life insurance (1X salary)
- 13 paid holidays + 1 floating holiday
- Generous PTO policy (starting at 16 working days a year)
- 403(b) Retirement plan with 3% discretionary employer match OR 3% student loan repayment reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement