Job Description

Position Summary

The Abusive Partner Intervention Program (APIP) Facilitator serves as a staff member at will of Domestic Violence Intervention Services (DVIS). The APIP Facilitator actively works toward the eradication of interpersonal violence through intervention and prevention work with people that have caused harm. This position will be located predominantly at JusticeLink. JusticeLink connects those navigating the criminal legal system in Tulsa, Oklahoma to a full spectrum of community-based services.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Priority 1: Equity and Inclusion

• Reflect and understand how identities could give advantages in the workplace—even if they are not asked for or earned—while others might experience disadvantages. Reflect on how our position and power may shift depending on the environment, the people, or the institutions at play. Build the awareness and compassion that is needed and expected to create an equitable and inclusive workplace.
• Create an inclusive environment and behave in a way that ensures that clients and employees feel embraced, no matter what their cultural orientations are, respected and valued, engaged, and connected to the community, and safe from abuse and harassment.

Priority 2: Client care and service provision

• Maintain a high level of professional and ethical conduct towards clients, staff and the community.
• Maintain and promote a philosophy of customer service consistent with the goals of DVIS. Be sensitive to program concerns while flexible enough to respond to the needs of individual clients.
• Implement evidence-informed, psycho-education curriculum to offenders of domestic violence who are recommended or court-ordered to APIP services. Provide services including: assessments, groups, crisis intervention, short-term therapy, and case management.
• Complete 3 intake assessments per week, at minimum
• Lead 3 groups per week at JusticeLink, at minimum
• Provide follow-up care, as needed, for clients currently enrolled in the APIP

Priority 4: Collaboration

• Maintain collaboration with court personnel by completing requested court compliance reports by established deadline.
• Produce reports as requested by both referral source and client request.
• Consult with JusticeLink team to assess client’s fitness for group
• Act as liaison between JusticeLink and DVIS
• Provide training on intimate partner violence to JusticeLink staff
• Work with all DVIS departments; federal, state, and local agencies regarding client matters

Other Duties & Responsibilities

Other Duties/Responsibilities: Advocate for appropriate services for clients including but not limited to services to address mental health, financial stability, parenting skills, substance use recovery, housing and other needs.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None.

Budgetary/Fiscal Responsibilities: Acts as a good steward of DVIS’s resources.

Responsibility for Confidentiality: The nature of this work requires safeguarding against the release of confidential and proprietary information of DVIS and its clients.

Contact with Others: This position will interact with community partners including JusticeLink, other members of external organizations and the public.

Documentation: Meets documentation deadlines. Maintains up-to-date and accurate files for each client according to agency guidelines and current professional standards.

Meetings and Training: Attend meetings and training as requested by supervisor.

Requirements

Education: Master’s degree in Counseling, Psychology, Social Work, or another related mental health field preferred.

Experience: 1-2 years clinical experience preferred. Experience working within a nonprofit and directly with at-risk or justice-involved populations, preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Knowledge of or experience working with social justice issues, specifically intimate partner and gender-based domestic and sexual violence, and racial, class, gender, sexual orientation issues, and intervention/prevention services, strongly preferred. Must have dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion, excellent organizational skills, written and oral communication skills, and attention to detail. Must meet deadlines in an ever-changing environment, with frequent pressure related to client requests and scheduling requirements. Must be open-minded and willing to learn restorative practices. Must be able to work independently and as part of a team.

• Requires the ability to embrace, support, and integrate DVIS’s philosophies to promote and demonstrate DVIS’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and anti-racism.
• Experience applying an equitable analysis to all duties to achieve organizational goals and demonstrate DVIS’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and anti-racism is preferred.
• Diplomacy at confronting personal, individual, and internal discrimination requiring sharing and discussing personal identities relative to the work environment is strongly preferred.
• Requires sophisticated emotional intelligence and resiliency skills to lead and/or actively participate in advancing our work relative to racial, social, and economic justice.
• Proven computer skills are necessary.

Schedule Availability: 40 hours per week. Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.

Licenses/Certifications: LPC, LMFT, or LCSW and/or licensure candidate (in good standing with overseeing board); current CPR and First Aid certification preferred.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made when requested to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Ability to communicate and understand in English [and insert language] effectively, in person, and in writing. Ability to hear adequately in person and by phone, in personal and group settings, and function with periodic distractions such as people, telephone calls, and noise.

Ability to work with, and process information from, a variety of individuals and media (e.g., computers, projected images, printed materials), and occasional sitting and/or standing for long periods of time.

Mobility necessary to access various offices and a wide variety of settings. Mobility necessary to perform a variety of tasks that involve intermittent standing, walking/traversing, sitting, stooping, kneeling, bending, and twisting, occasionally climbing stairs or using an elevator, and possibly reaching chest high and overhead for materials.

Ability to reach for, move and/or lift up to [#] pounds and the use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, including frequent repetitive movement such as extended periods of keyboarding.