Counselor

Hope Alliance is an Equal Opportunity Employer (Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans). To read more about this, view the EEO is the Law poster. Hope Alliance is hiring for a Counselor! This position is full-time and supports our mission to empower victims of family and sexual violence by providing compassionate, trauma-informed counseling and advocacy services.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Provide individualized and trauma-informed services to adult and child survivors, with a focus on Spanish-speaking clients. Provide trauma-informed counseling to adult and child survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide clinical services, including individual, couples, group, and family counseling, according to established psychological principles and in a manner that empowers clients in their healing process. Provide hotline, intake, crisis intervention, advocacy and case management services in-person and on the hotline, informally assessing for emotional, physical, social, and educational needs of clients, formulating individualized service plans. Actively seek out and liaison with relevant community agencies and resources in order to create a continuum of services that elevates the best interest of clients. Provide clinical expertise to other team members and distribute information about working with survivors of trauma. Cover on-call rotation, responding to survivors in community settings such as hospitals, law enforcement agencies and other social service organizations. Maintain communication with others and work to fulfill the agency’s mission, vision and philosophy. This includes attending regularly scheduled team meetings. Recognize personal emotions, thoughts and values and how they influence behavior, managing their effects on service provision. Report any incident of child or elder abuse to the appropriate Hope Alliance team members. Assist with the collection and maintenance of data for statistical and programming purposes. Assist with recruitment, training, and engagement of volunteers and interns as well as community education efforts. Perform other duties as approved and assigned by VP of Programs. #J-18808-Ljbffr Preferred Family Healthcare, Inc.