Therapeutic Training and Support Worker

• NSCS is looking for a Therapeutic Training and Support Worker to help local youth and families!
• Are you looking for an opportunity where you can make a real difference while growing your own career and skills?
• The In-Home Therapy team works together to help a child and family treat the child’s challenging behaviors and mental health needs, and help the family with supporting and caring for the child.
• The Therapeutic Training & Support Worker helps implement the therapeutic objectives of the treatment plan designed to address a youth’s mental health, behavioral and emotional needs.
• This might include teaching the youth to understand, direct, interpret, manage, and develop self control of feelings as well as emotional responses to situations.
• This position also assists the family with addressing the youth’s emotional and mental health needs.

This position is currently a hybrid position

community visits and remote work, contingent on family preference.

Full-Time 40 hours per week; ability to flex hours between 8am and 8pm.

Up to $5k Salary differential for Bilingual-Spanish candidates!

What you’ll do

• Support the development of a youth-and family-centered treatment plan.
• Support the review/development of a risk management/safety plan in collaboration with the youth and caregiver.
• Provide support, referral and linkage to appropriate services along the continuum of care.
• Provide phone contact and support to the youth and family as indicated.
• Work with families to implement focused interventions and behavioral techniques to: enhance problem-solving, limit-setting, risk management/safety planning, communication, build skills to strengthen the family, advance therapeutic goals, or improve ineffective patterns of interaction.
• Identify and utilize community resources; develop and maintain natural supports for the youth and parent/caregiver(s) in order to promote sustainability of treatment gains.
• Support families in developing and maintaining natural supports for the youth and parent caregiver(s) in order to promote sustainability of treatment gains.
• Provide phone and face-to-face coordination with entities that may impact the youth’s treatment plan.
• Provide coaching to youth and family in support of decision-making in both crisis and non-crisis situation.
• Provide skills training for youth and parent/caregiver(s).
• When requested by the family, will also accompany the family to meetings about the youth’s behavioral health treatment needs in schools, day care, foster homes, and other community-based locations.

What you’ll need

• Education/experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in a human service field from an accredited university and one year experience working with children/adolescents/transition age youth; OR
• Associate’s degree in a human services field from an accredited school and one year of experience working with the target population; OR
• High school diploma or GED and a minimum of two years of experience working with children/adolescents/transition age youth
• Skills:
• You must have a valid Massachusetts Driver’s license, reliable vehicle, and ability to work in community and in-home settings.
• Bilingual Spanish preferred.

Competitive & Comprehensive Benefits

• Paid Time Off – Two weeks’ Vacation per year (three weeks after 1 year of service), 12 Sick Days per year, and 11 Paid Holidays per year
• Eligible employer for the PSLF program
• Health & Dental Insurance, with generous employer contribution
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• 403 (b) Retirement Plan with employer matching
• Voluntary Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Medical & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Access to Credit Union Banking
• Access to State Tuition Remission Program (Worksite Specific)
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Discounted Movie Tickets
• Comprehensive Training Program
• Internal Advancement Opportunities
• Bilingual differential pay! Please indicate language in the application