APSS Therapist (Part Time 10-12 hours per week) (Bilingual Spanish)

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With more than a century of experience, All For Kids (formerly known as Children's Bureau) has been nurturing child well-being through prevention, collaboration, and compassion. Our purpose is to create a world where every child is safe to grow.

Our employees thrive on innovation, thinking differently and bringing life-changing moments to those in need. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working and learning environment for all staff. We believe every member on our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions.

Understanding Our Core Values:

• Collaboration: We view responsibilities as shared, and we provide support, feedback, and motivation to others.
• Equity Mindset: We stand by building an inclusive and equitable working environment. We believe everyone here within the organization enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world.
• Mission-Driven: We perform duties in a manner that exemplify the Mission and Vision and ensure customer satisfaction. Customers of All For Kids are defined as clients, families, co-workers and vendors.
• Ownership: We effectively manage our own work, and the work of our teams when relevant, ensuring delivery of high-quality work.
• Initiative: We proactively seek opportunities to develop self and serve the organization.
• Communication: We demonstrate empathy and listening.

Benefits and Perks:

• Robust benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K.
• Generous paid time off, holidays and wellness days that promote a healthy work life balance.
• A culture that cultivates learning and promotes growth through our award-winning internal university, Elevate University.
• Generous employee referral program
• "DEI Non-Profit of the Year" by Los Angeles Business Journal
• Bi-weekly and semi-annual monetary bonuses for Behavioral Health Service Providers that meet specific qualifying criteria. (Clinical Roles Only)
• In-depth and in-person New Hire Orientation curriculum that gives new hires a gateway to unlocking success and thriving in our organization.
• Beautifully designed office spaces that promote collaboration.

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All For Kids proudly is committed and supportive of complete pay transparency. The position of APSS Therapist will pay $45/hour.

Must have Covid-19 Vaccine and Booster.

Learn more about the Job:

The APSS therapist is responsible for the provision of clinical therapy services to children and adults with active cases in the Adoption Promotion and Support (APSS) program.

Job Responsibilities:

• Coordinate services with treatment team, which may include referred family members, DCFS, mental health therapists, mentor staff, and other community service providers
• Escalates any safety concerns or suspected child abuse or neglect to PC
• Attend staff meeting as required with other Children's Bureau staff
• Therapist to provide clients their private practice policies including; Informed consent, mandated reporting requirements, scheduling and cancellation and no-show policy
• Participate in ongoing trainings to further skill set and to adhere to contract compliance, at an accrual rate mandated by Children's Bureau
• Provide individual therapy to adoptive parents/ prospective adoptive parents/ prospective adoptive children, which such therapy sessions being a combination of in person (in the family homes) and some virtual contact
• Maintain a focus of sessions; adoption focused therapy to address any adoption related challenges that are impacting a referred child or non-minor dependent, their family, prospective adoptive family/parents, including any resistance or hesitancy to consider adoption and the ultimate goal of the child or non-minor dependent being adopted or to remain safely in adoptive home. If therapy is not provided weekly, the rationale shall be documented in the case record
• Therapist shall address the client's needs through use of evidence-based and evidence informed treatment modalities
• Therapist will provide these services with a working knowledge of the Seven Core Issues of Adoption, adoption/attachment informed parenting, knowledge of the potential impact of attachment disruption, knowledge of how adoption/attachment disruption impact all members of the constellation, knowledge of racial identity development and implications of transracial adoption
• Mandated reporter laws will be adhered to at all times in the course of service delivery and will adhere to reporting and client safety laws for any client presenting with safety concerns (Tarasoff, SI)
• Therapist will complete all necessary client documentation and maintain file notes following HIPPA and BBS regulations
• Complete contact notes for any contact with referred clients or others related to the client's treatment/services on-going and remain current
• Document any client late cancellations (within 24-hours of appointment) and no-shows

General

• Maintains confidentiality in matters of agency operations, personnel, and clients
• Maintains positive communications with all agency staff, clients and visitors
• Exercises good judgment in performance of duties and responsibilities
• Supports existing agency policies, principles and mission
• Other related duties as assigned
• Complete initial and ongoing training hours as required by the APSS contract, which includes participating in trainings outside of Children's Bureau and independent study

Job Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• Belief all children are "adoptable" and deserve permanency
• APSS Professional Therapist Staff who provides therapy to families and children must possess, at minimum, a Master's Degree in social work, psychology, marriage and family counseling or a closely related field,
• Non-licensed Professional Therapy Staff, who hold a Master's Degree, must be registered with the Board of Behavioral Sciences gaining hours for licensure as an LMFT/LCSW or equivalent license.
• Professional Therapist Staff must have a minimum of one (1) year of actual practice, rather than observational, professional adoption experience, including, but not limited to, an awareness of the developmental process of adoption and in adoption therapy strategies and techniques
• Available to work flexible schedule including a Saturday and evenings as needed.
• Ability to write clear, concise, efficient reports and meet deadlines for submission
• Must have reliable transportation, valid driver license, current vehicle registration and automobile insurance
• Proficient in MS Office programs, especially Word and Outlook (email) and comfortable with technology
• Bilingual (English/ Spanish)

Preferred Qualifications

• Licensed LCSW or LMFT
• Two years of adoption-based experience
• Experience/ understanding of the themes of adoption and attachment disruption
• Understanding of child welfare system

Diversity is a core value at All For Kids and in the Behavioral Health program. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working and learning environment for all staff, and people leaders. We believe every member on our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions.

Safety: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands and talk or hear. Fine motor skills such as typing, the use of a computer mouse and telephone handset is required. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.