Job Overview
To provide assessment and treatment services to Synergy Service’s clients and their families in the school based program. To provide consultation services and professional development to school staff as needed.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:
Clinical Services
- Provides direct clinical counseling services to students in the school setting including assessment, individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy and support/psychoeducation groups (may include in-home work);
- Provides professional development regarding trauma to school staff;
- Assists with trauma-informed care implementation in the school setting;
- Provides crisis management as needed;
Case Coordination
- Provides treatment planning, case management and follow-up of cases;
- Provides support calls and networks with other agencies;
- Represents the agency at legal proceedings and responds to subpoenas;
- Writes reports as requested;
- Makes outside referrals for additional services as appropriate;
- Maintains client files according to agency documentation standards;
Supervision and Training
- Participates in monthly peer supervision;
- Participates in weekly supervision with the Clinical Manager to discuss cases and create a plan for ways to mitigate vicarious trauma;
- Participates in professional development and training in order to maintain requirements for licensure;
- Supervisory Responsibilities*
- Potentially provides supervision to practicum or intern students;
- Expected to assist other employees by sharing experience, expertise and training;
Self Management
- Behaves in honest, fair, and ethical manner; demonstrates consistency in words and actions; models high standards of ethics;
- Treats others with courtesy, sensitivity, and respect;
- Assesses and recognizes own strength and challenges and pursues self-development;
- Deals effectively with pressure; identifies skills to build resiliency in self;
- Listens effectively and communicates clearly and effectively both orally and in writing;
- Adapts to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles;
- Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates, evaluates, and recommends alternative solutions.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Master’s degree (MA/MS) in psychology, social work, counseling, marital and family, art therapy, or other applied behavior science degree and a license in the State of Missouri.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
REASONING ABILITY
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
The employee must be provisionally licensed as a therapist at the Master’s level (Licensed Professional Counselor or Licensed Social Worker). Must have a valid driver’s license.
OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Must be able to drive personal vehicle. Must possess the ability to type and work with computer software, including Windows, EXCEL, Word for Windows, Access, and PowerPoint.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is often required to stand, walk, and sit on chairs or the floor with young children. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to fumes, airborne particles, or communicable diseases. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to the risk of violence and secondary trauma.
Master’s degree (MA/MS) in psychology, social work, counseling, marital and family, art therapy, or other applied behavior science degree and a license in the State of Missouri.
Must be at least 21 years of age, consent to a Background Check and Children’s Division (Central Registry/Child Abuse) screening, physical, drug screen and have a valid driver’s license and proof of insurance.
*Diversity & Inclusion: *
Synergy Services is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. We feel our staff, interns and volunteers are among our most valuable assets. The collective sum of the individual difference, life experience, knowledge, self-expression and unique capabilities that our staff, interns and volunteers bring to their work at Synergy represents a large part of not only our agency culture but our reputation as well.
We embrace and encourage our staff’s, intern’s and volunteers’ differences in age, race/ethnicity, religious creed, ancestry, color, sex, disability, national origin, marital status, political belief, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic testing and screening information, covered veterans status or any other characteristic that makes us unique.
Non-Discrimination:
Synergy Services is an EEO employer. We firmly support the principle and philosophy of equal employment for all individuals, regardless of age, race/ethnicity, religious creed, ancestry, color, sex, disability (including pregnancy), national origin, marital status, political belief, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic testing and screening information, covered veteran status or any other protected category pursuant to applicable federal, state or local laws.
Benefits:
All full-time positions are eligible for generous benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid vacation and holidays, sick days and personal holidays and a 401K Plan with Employer Match. Some regular part-time positions are eligible for partial benefits. Synergy Services is an equal opportunity employer who values and embraces diversity.
Location: 2001 NE Parvin Rd, Kansas City, MO 64116
Job Type: Full-time
