Starting Salary $40,900-$51,000 -based on experience!
Position Overview: This position is responsible for providing services for girls who are active in the program and aftercare/follow-up services for transitioned girls.
Role and Responsibilities
- Continues to educate and reinforce goals of individual and community responsibility.
- Provides on-going guidance and support in assisting the students to achieve individual goals and objectives.
- Assists girls with meeting individual treatment goals.
- Provides career counseling and assistance to students in the initiation of job interviews, job placement, and intervention when a job is lost; provide educational materials.
- Participates in family conferences.
- Participates in care review meetings before discharge to plan for ongoing intervention.
- Establishes positive relationships with outside agencies and make available all resources.
- Maintains strength-based communication style that supports the Values and Guiding principles of Pace.
- Monitors and records the progress of students that have been discharged through transition and into life roles for a period of three years; documents all areas of progress assessment in accordance with Pace Center Standards and regulatory agencies.
- Adheres to established budget guidelines; manages existing resources to minimize cost wherever possible.
- Coordinates aftercare services for students and monitors, supervises and records progress through transition services.
- Provides aftercare service information to Teacher Advisors and ensures they have advised the students and caregivers of these services prior to the discharge-planning meeting.
- Conducts weekly support groups to discuss issues that impact negatively on student success.
- Provides crisis intervention when special needs or concerns arise.
- Coordinates intervention with program counselor and/or appropriate referral agencies.
- Constantly evaluates progress of goals and reevaluates long term/short goals.
- Performs miscellaneous duties as assigned
Qualifications and Education Requirements
Required
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher from four-year college or university. Degree/Major in Social Work, Psychology, Mental Health, Counseling or a related field
- Minimum two years’ experience
- Knowledge of case management practices
- Excellent therapeutic counseling skills and crisis management skills
- Minimum experience using personal computers and database software and basic office equipment
- Valid Florida Driver’s license
Other Requirements
- Must adhere to Agency Values and Principles.
- Upholds the ethical standards of the Agency.
- Follows policies and procedures of the Agency.
- Must work evenings and weekends as required to fulfill workload requirements.
- Must be able to travel by automobile, plane, train, etc.; occasional overnight travel may be required
Preferred
- Knowledge of laws relating to children and families
- Knowledge of state and school districts policies
- Ability to incorporate group facilitation skills
- Work with at-risk youth
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)