Therapist - FFT

Overview

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence.  We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

Responsibilities

· Reports to assigned program supervisor or covering supervisor.

· Provides home-based clinical treatment utilizing the Functional Family Therapy (FFT) model to

assigned caseload of up to 8 cases and provides coverage for peer's caseload as needed.

· Manages the extensive travel requirements involved in serving families in their homes.

· Conducts assessments including review of referral information, identifying and engaging key

participants, identifying relational patterns, and individualized treatment planning.

· Engages families to sign for services and completes intakes with families within the required ACS

timeframes.

· Participates in all required agency, model and stakeholder trainings, individual and group

coaching and staff meetings.

· Adheres to model expectations and implement with fidelity including the timely completion of

progress notes, session planning guides, session impact scales and appointment notes in the

Care4 documentation system.

· Actively participate in weekly consultation and supervision and site visits when they occur.

· Consistently meets all program and model Key Performance Indicators (including session

pacing, required casework contacts, successful client outcomes, timely completion of Family

Assessment Service Plans, data entry in all systems, etc.).

· Identify and address family risk factors that give rise to possible child removal, ACS involvement,

and out of home placement due to continued referral behavior or new risk/safety factors. This

includes the completion of safety plans and incident reports if necessary.

· Maintains clear, concise and timely documentation of treatment efforts in progress notes and

Family Assessment and Service Planning (FASP) that demonstrate compliance with the FFT

model and supervisory review feedback.

· Manages the extensive documentation requirements in all databases to successfully comply

with mandates from agency, ACS and model.

· Identify community-based resources for families, collaborate and build relationships with

stakeholders/providers (i.e., ACS, schools, doctors, mental health providers, courts, etc.) to

monitor participation in services and accompany families to appointments if needed.

· Provides 24/7 coverage during the week and participates on a weekend on-call rotational

schedule as applicable.

· Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or a related subject area.

Education Required