Youth Therapy Assistant

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Job description

Scope of Work/ Contract agreement: Day Treatment Specialist

This is a part-time contract position

We are seeking a professional with availability Monday-Friday 1:45pm-7pm. Our work schedule is based upon the Jefferson County Public School calendar.

This position requires a valid drivers license and clean driving record.

Scope of work overview

Day Treatment Services are the most intensive outpatient services available to children/youth. Day Treatment is a behavioral intervention and strengths-based program, provided in the context of a therapeutic milieu, which provides children/adolescents with serious emotional/behavioral disturbances and/or intellectual/developmental disabilities the intensity of treatment necessary to enable them to live in the community. Day Treatment Services are based on behavior management principles and includes, at a minimum, positive feedback, self-esteem building and social skills training. Additional components are determined by the needs of the participants at a particular site and may include skills training in the areas of impulse control, anger management, problem solving, and/or conflict resolution.

Scope of work

Ensuring that the program operates at a minimum of three (3) hours per day, three (3) days per week, up to a maximum of six (6) hours per day, five (5) days per week.
Ensuring that each child/youth enrolled in Day Treatment Services must receive Day Treatment Services at a minimum of two (2) hours per day, two (2) days per week up to a maximum of six (6) hours per day, five (5) days per week.
Ensuring that each childs confidentiality is kept, no children other than those enrolled in Day Treatment Services can be present in the room during the time Day Treatment Services are being provided.
Executing and assisting with the following:
Planning Day Treatment interventions and Curriculum of therapeutic interventions. Coordinating the Day Treatment Program including transportation.

Must evaluating Day Treatment Service efficacy for clients.
Ensuring that the day treatment program operates year round.
Ensuring that the day treatment curriculum covers but is not limited to:

Functional living skills,
Socialization or social skills
Problem-solving
Conflict resolution
Self-esteemimprovement
Anger control and impulse control
Ensuring that the approved curriculum is kept on site. Ensuring that all activities and strategies implemented are therapeutic, age appropriate, developmentally appropriate, relate to the objectives in each child/youths Individual Service Plan.

Ensuring that Day Treatment roll/roster cannot exceed ten (10) children/youth per program with the exception of Day Treatment Services for children and youth with alcohol and other drug disorders.
Ensuring that the programs master schedule is kept on file at each location and at a minimum the specific skill areas being addressed each day and the specific times these skill areas are being addressed. Skill area activities shown on the Master Schedule must be curriculum- specific. Identification numbers of individuals receiving services must be listed for all individuals participating in each skill area (time period) being addressed.
Day Treatment Specialist will ensure the ratio of staff to children/youth receiving services in each Day Treatment Program will be maintained.
Day Treatment Specialist will ensure that the plans for transitioning a child to a less intensive therapeutic service when deemed clinically appropriate is properly documented. This documentation must be maintained in each childs Individual Service Plan in his/her record.
Must have a clean driving record and be willing to transport children in the company vehicle.

Must be punctual, meet deadlines, reliable, responsible, and have great communication skills.

This is a part-time contract position

We are seeking a professional with availability Monday-Friday 1:45pm-7pm during the school year, and 9am-3pm when school is not in session.

Job Types: Part-time, Contract

Pay: $16.00 - $22.00 per hour

Expected hours: per week

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