Therapeutic Home Specialist (Child)

Description

Devereux-Arizonas Therapeutic Foster Care Program (TFC) serves children and adults with significant behavioral and emotional needs. Individuals are referred to Devereux via Arizona behavioral health networks and several tribal entities. Therapeutic foster parents are extensively trained to address each individuals intense needs and work with them toward their treatment goals.

Reporting to the Foster Care Coordinator Therapeutic Home Specialists (Child) supervise and support therapeutic home providers in maintaining and delivering high quality behavioral health services to TFC individuals who have a wide range of social emotional and behavioral challenges. Position specifics:

• Therapeutic Home Specialists have a caseload of 10 individuals placed across 5-7 licensed therapeutic foster homes
• Each foster home receives a home visit at least once every two weeks with homes spread out across the county
• Therapeutic Home Specialists participate as an active member of the treatment team by: conducting assessments facilitating service/treatment plan development review and implementation developing supporting and monitoring behavioral interventions and performing crisis intervention/stabilization through consultation support and coordinating services.

Additional Details:

• Pay Range: $20/hr - $22hr
• Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am-5:00pm
• Work in-office home community settings and throughout Devereux Arizona premises
• Ability to commute throughout Maricopa County utilizing your own vehicle (with mileage reimbursement)

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelors Degree in related field preferred
• Four (4) years related experience with a high school diploma/GED OR one (1) year experience with a Bachelors degree

OTHER:

• Ability to attend full time new hire orientation (paid)
• Must be 21 years of age or older (per licensing standards)
• Valid Arizona Drivers License & pass DMV 36-month history check
• Pre-employment Physical and Job Demand Assessment (if applicable)
• Drug test within 24hrs of offer w/ negative results
• Current Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card with no restrictions (or eligibility to obtain with no restrictions). Arizona Revised Statutes Notice: If a persons employment record contains a six-month or longer time frame during which the person was not employed by any employer a completed application with a new set of fingerprints shall be submitted to the department of public safety. For more information visit

• Paid time off (24 days per year increase with years of service); Sick time (64 hours per year)

• ASCEND career accelerator program and tuition assistance . Learn more

• Retirement eM Life for Mental Health and Work/Life Programs Service Anniversary Awards

• Free access to Payactiv a platform to get a portion of your earned wages between pay periods

• Quality Low-Cost Benefits (medical dental vision pet insurance): 30-day benefit eligibility waiting period for new hires!

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

Company Overview

Company Overview

Devereux is one of the nations largest nonprofit organizations providing services insight and leadership in the evolving field of behavioral healthcare. Founded in 1912 Devereux operates a comprehensive national network of clinical therapeutic educational and employment programs that positively impact the lives of 10000 children adults and their families every year.

Our Mission: Devereux changes lives by unlocking and nurturing human potential for people living with emotional behavioral or cognitive differences.

With nearly 6500 employees working in programs across the country Devereux is a trusted partner for families schools and communities serving individuals in the areas of autism intellectual and developmental disabilities specialty mental health education and foster care.

Our Culture Our Expectations

At Devereux Servant Leadership is embedded throughout our culture and every aspect of our organizational framework. Our mission-driven people-first mindset is at the heart of the compassionate and high-quality programming we provide every day for the individuals and families we serve and other key stakeholders. Devereux offers challenging and exciting work and our team environment creates an empowering positive and rewarding atmosphere. To be successful at Devereux you will: put the needs of others first feel called to serve and called to lead. As a member of our team you will be a significant part of our commitment to providing a welcoming and supportive work environment across all programs and services and within all policies and employee practices.

We believe a workplace rooted in inclusivity offering a sense of belonging to all those who walk through our doors is fundamental to delivering the highest quality healthcare services. Through open dialogue and the creation of brave spaces we will engage in work that gives each of us a chance to change the world one person one family one community at a time.

What Devereux Offers You

In addition to a competitive salary Devereux provides a comprehensive health and welfare program to eligible full-time employees family members and domestic partners. Eligible employees are eligible to start benefits after 30 days of addition we offer;

• Medical (including telemedicine via phone web app) dental prescription drug preventative care and mental health services.

• Student loan debt assistance tuition reimbursement and continuing education assistance.

• Generous time-off (start accruing 1st day) 403(b) retirement plan with matching benefit and voluntary/employee paid supplemental life and accident coverage.

• Employee assistance / work-life balance program.

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Devereux is a drug-free workplace drug screening required. EOE

Required Experience:

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