Job Description

The Children’s Trauma Therapist serves as a staff member at will of Domestic Violence Intervention Services (DVIS). The Children’s Trauma Therapist provides professional therapy services for DVIS clients including intakes, individual sessions, family sessions, group sessions, psycho-education, advocacy, case management, and crisis intervention.

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 Services

• Responsible for conducting intakes, individual therapy sessions, family therapy sessions, and group sessions with children and their caregivers.
• Provide thoughtful, clinically sound interventions unique to each client/family and their situation.
• Safety plan with every client/family.
• Responsible for utilizing evidence-based, trauma-informed treatment models for clients, specific to their unique needs.
• Assist with crisis intervention as needed.

Priority 3: Documentation

• Responsible for conducting intake assessments, treatment plans, case notes, assessments, and all other documentation within the timeframe required.
• Complete court reports and other letters for clients as needed depending on their situation.

Priority 4: Collaboration

• Responsible for providing consultation to other professionals regarding domestic and sexual violence.
• Collaborate and coordinate internally and externally to best assist clients.

Other Duties/Responsibilities: Other assistance to support the overall goals of the department and organization. DVIS retains the right to add or change duties and/or responsibilities at any time.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None.

Budgetary/Fiscal Responsibilities: No budgetary/fiscal responsibilities. Acts as a good steward of DVIS’s resources.

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

Contact with Others: This position will interact with managers at all levels and staff members across the organization, in addition to members of external organizations and the public.

Documentation: 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

Job Requirements/Experience

Education: Master’s degree required.

License: LPC, LCSW, LMFT, or under supervision for licensure. If not yet licensed, must be able to go under supervision upon the first date of employment.

Experience: Requires a minimum of one year of supervised experience providing therapy to adults and/or children; this may be acquired through graduate experience. Experience working with a nonprofit and with trauma is strongly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Proven computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite, Canva, and Adobe, are necessary. Will need to efficiently utilize DVIS’ electronic health records system.

This position requires a candidate with a commitment to disrupting domestic violence using a holistic lens to support people who commit harm and survivors of interpersonal violence. An ideal candidate would be organized, collaborative, clinically skilled, invested in the community, gender equity, racial equity, and self-motivated. 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. Requires dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion, excellent organizational skills, written and oral communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize work and tasks. Requires adaptability to produce and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, multi-task, and changing environment, with frequent pressure related to meeting deadlines and scheduling requirements. Must be able to work independently and as part of a team. Must have good negotiation skills and the ability to handle sensitive information with diplomacy.

• 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 preferred.
• Diplomacy in 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.