Specialist IV NE (Kona SATS/DVSF) - (Part-time)

Special knowledge, skills, and abilities required • required

• Demonstrated ability in experience and education in relevant aspects of clinical practice
• Commitment to empowering families to be an effective problem solving and nurturing agents
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with people of diverse social, economic, ethnic/racial, and cultural backgrounds
• Ability to establish effective working relationships with at-risk families
• Commitment to family centered, community-based services
• Commitment to children’s safety and family stability
• Good verbal and written communication skills in therapeutic assessment, interviewing and recording
• Flexible work schedule to promote accessibility to service
• Direct use of a variety of family therapies
• Individual therapy with children and adults using cognitive behavioral techniques
• Marital therapy
• Therapeutic interventions targeting school behavior and academic performance
• Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the participant’s natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of youth (i.e. family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
• Provision of group and individual clinical supervision
• Preferred:
• Direct use of a variety of family therapies
• Individual therapy with children and adults using cognitive behavioral techniques
• Marital therapy
• Therapeutic interventions targeting school behavior and academic performance
• Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the participant’s natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of youth (i.e. family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
• Provision of group and individual clinical supervision
• Preferred knowledge
• Family systems theory and application
• Social ecological theory and application
• Behavioral therapies theory and application
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy theory and application
• Pragmatic family therapies theory and application
• Child development research and it’s application in treatment
• Social skills assessment and intervention

• Other position requirements
• This job requires a valid Hawaii driver's license and a clear driver's abstract and continued employment may be contingent on maintaining a clear driver’s abstract.
• This job requires a valid Hawaii driver's license, a clear driver's abstract, and willingness to travel in personal vehicle on an as-needed basis throughout the island.
• The nature of this position requires the incumbent to be on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• This position is subject to a criminal background investigation and continued employment is contingent on a record clear of convictions.
• Continued employment in this position is contingent on successful completion of CPR, CPI and/or van driving training as such training is necessary to ensure ability/continued ability to perform essential functions of this job.
• Continued employment in this position is contingent on successful completion of CPI classes OR other Behavioral Management certification as may be contract-mandated.
• Continued employment in this position is contingent on successful completion of First Aid classes.

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