Per Diem Child and Family Counselor

Position:Per Diem Child and Family Counselor

Are you ready to make a real impact? At New Directions Youth & Family Services, we believe every young person deserves the chance to thrive. As a Child and Family Counselor, you’ll work directly with kids and families, providing trauma-informed counseling, teaching vital life skills, and supporting emotional and behavioral growth. You’ll collaborate with a team, helping families navigate challenges and guiding youth toward stability. This role is more than a job, it’s a chance to build meaningful connections, empower resilience, and be a part of life changing growth. If you’re compassionate, driven, and ready to inspire change, we’d love to welcome you to our team!

New Directions is an equal opportunity employer committed to championing the principles of anti-racism, justice, and equity. We welcome prospective employees from diverse cultures and backgrounds, for all positions, who will uphold our values and contribute to our mission. We aim to have a leadership and workforce that is reflective of the communities we work in partnership with.

Pay and benefits

• $25.96 - $28.62/hr.
• Flexible schedule, 1 - 5 hours a week.
• Join our company, where over 30% of our staff have been with us for 10 years or more.

Minimum Education and/or Professional Qualifications/Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in a human services field plus two years of related experience
  OR Registered Professional Nurse plus one year of experience
  OR Master’s degree in a human services field plus one year of related experience

We want to emphasize that the preferred qualifications are not required and that we are committed to helping our future colleagues develop these preferred skills. We strongly encourage those who are passionate about fostering a diverse, inclusive and equitable human service organization to apply.

Full Job Description
Title: Child and Family Counselor (CPST)
Department: Children and Family Treatment and Support Services
Title of Immediate Supervisor: CFTSS Supervisor

POSITION SUMMARY: The Child and Family Counselor provides in-home and community-based services to Medicaid enrolled youth ages 0-21
under the Medicaid State Plan Service Community Psychiatric Supports and Treatment (CPST). CPST is a multi-component service that consists of
therapeutic interventions such as counseling, as well as functional supports. Activities provided under CPST are intended to assist the child/youth
and family/caregivers to achieve stability and functional improvement in daily living, personal recovery and/or resilience, family and interpersonal
relationships in school and community integration.

RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:
Individualized services:
-Deliver trauma-informed, individualized services based on the child’s identified strengths and needs.
-Administer appropriate identified assessments in the context of the child/youth self-identified needs, goals, and ethnic, religious, and cultural identities.
-Educate child/youth, family and collaterals on strategies and treatment options supportive to the youth’s needs. Assist the child/youth, family and collaterals
with identifying strengths, needs, resources, and supports to improve functioning.
-Provide restoration, rehabilitation, and support to develop skills
necessary to meet the child’s goals.
-Provide Individual, family and relationship-based counseling, supportive counseling, solution-focused interventions, and emotional/behavioral management.
-Assist the child/youth with effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors or triggers that would risk their remaining in a natural community location.
-Assist families with post-crisis management to support stabilization in the home and
community environment.
Collaborate with Community Partners:
-Collaborate with formal systems, service providers and informal networks involved with the youth and family in a mutli-disciplinary team format. Maintain a working knowledge of appropriate community resources for linkage and referral.
-Attend case related conferences.
Documentation:
-Utilize New Directions electronic case recording system for assessment, service planning, progress notes, and outcome monitoring purposes.
-Maintain accurate and timely case records, including progress notes and tracking mechanisms, electronically and in each client’s file.
-Keep all client and family information, verbal and written, confidential.
-Adhere to all Medicaid requirements for billing and documentation.
Training:
-Attend all mandatory in-service trainings as per NDYFS policy and OMH requirements.
Agency Standards/Norms:
• Participate in regular supervision (per New Directions policy and procedure).
• Maintain a flexible schedule based around client availability, including evenings. Primary hours of service delivery are after school and
evenings.
• Adhere to agency and department policies and procedures.
• Utilize normative culture.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor.

Minimum Education and/or Professional Qualifications/Skills
-Bachelor’s degree in a human services field plus two years of related experience
OR Registered Professional Nurse plus one year of experience
OR Master’s degree in a human services field plus one year of related experience

Special – Personal Skills, Qualities, Aptitudes and Physical Requirements
New Directions Youth & Family Services, Inc is an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable persons with
disabilities to perform essential functions.

1. Ability to work effectively with clients, families, staff and community contacts from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
2. Ability to work effectively with children/youth with behavioral, emotional and/or mental health challenges and their families.
3. Ability to accept supervision and perform as part of a team.
4. Ability to be flexible and adapt to change.
5. Must have a valid driver’s license, adequate auto insurance and meet the criteria for driving set forth in the New Directions Driver’s License policy and Auto Insurance policy.
6. Ability to pass annual physical for Category 1 job classification in accordance with New Directions Employee Health policy.
7. Must comply with Agency safety standards and be responsible for own actions and conduct concerning safety and healthy working conditions.