Therapist, Functional Family Therapy-**$3,000 SIGN ON BONUS**

Therapist for Functional Family Therapy Foster Care Program

If helping children and their families is your passion, this may be the opportunity for you! Klingberg is a private non-profit multi service agency who provides help to thousands of people across Connecticut each year. Our goal is to extend hope and healing to children and families whose lives have been traumatized by abuse and/or neglect in its various forms, sever family problems and mental health issues.

We are looking for a therapist for our Functional Family Therapy Foster Care Program to conduct initial assessments including review of referral information, identify and engage key participants, identify protective and risk factors, and develop analysis of hierarchy and relational assessment within the family.

The full time therapist is eligible for our attractive benefits that include: Health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, 401k plus a match, 13 paid holidays, 3 weeks' vacation, parental leave, employee assistance program, and a referral program. We are also offering a $3,000 sign on bonus.

Typical duties include: assisting in the recruitment of foster and adoptive families, conducting appropriate home studies and assisting with the placement of children in appropriate adoptive and foster care settings, addressing clinical needs of clients through model adherent FFT FC interventions, assessing strengths/needs of children and families referred for services, conducting ongoing model-specific and foster care adherent risk assessments and interventions for every family including tailored safety planning, crisis management, and interventions that target decreasing risk and increasing protective factors, maintaining clear and concise model adherent documentation of sessions and collateral contacts that promote monthly supervisory review; documents all contact, collateral notes, sessions, and treatment plans in Care4 database within 2 business days, collaborating with foster and adoptive parents as members of the team to protect and nurture children and strengthen families, in collaboration with the team making decisions regarding permanency plans for children based on assessed strengths and needs, identifying and coordinating the activities of multiple service providers, preparing reports and acting as an agent of the agency with the court system, and planning for termination of agency services.

Education/experience/other requirements include: master's degree in social work or related field required, clinical licensure (LMSW/LCP/LMFT) preferred or must be license eligible and working towards licensure, three years experience in child welfare preferred, must maintain a valid driver's license, and rotating on-call services.

Klingberg Family Centers (and its Affiliates) is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, learning or physical disability, past or present history of mental disorder, developmental disabilities, veteran status, or any other category protected by state, federal or local law. We are an Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug Free Workplace.