Residential Education Counselor

Your Responsibilities

As a RE Counselor, your primary responsibilities include providing therapy and counseling portions of the treatment program for adolescent residential education clients. In addition, you will be:

• Meeting with clients in individual counseling sessions
• Facilitating weekly group counseling sessions
• Maintaining a complete and updated clinical record for each client, making all efforts to obtain all pertinent clinical, medical, educational and legal reports, meeting all standards and policies
• Attends school conferences, re-entry meetings or other scheduled school meetings
• Providing case management services, including responsibility for scheduling and facilitating client staffings
• Responsible for authoring psycho-social assessment, admission, and progress staffings and discharge summaries on a timely basis

What You Need

• BSW or BA from an accredited school in a social sciences program
• Grounded in an understanding of cognitive, physical, emotional and chronological maturation of children and adolescents
• Competencies in the delivery of evidence based individual, group, and family services
• Mentoring, teaching, and coaching skills in order to provide information, education, support, direction and oversight of children and youth with a mental health diagnosis and their families.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Basic computer/keyboarding skills

What Makes You Stand Out

• Team player who enjoys building, creating, and executing new strategies
• Detail-oriented and compliance-minded
• Trustworthy in managing sensitive situations and information; you are discrete, professional, and possess excellent judgment
• A positive, motivating, and encouraging personality

Knowledge/Skills

• Knowledge of human growth and development, behavioral theories and individual, group and family therapy skills.
• Strong inter-personal skills and have the ability to utilize and develop community resources.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Invested in the interdisciplinary treatment team process.
• Knowledgeable of agency policies and procedures.
• Grounded in an understanding of cognitive, physical, emotional and chronological maturation of children and adolescents.
• Basic computer/keyboarding skills, including ability to utilize email in a courteous and constructive manner

Competitive benefits package for full-time employees working 30+ hours a week:

• Health insurance (up to 79% employer paid)
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) with profit sharing and employer match
• Paid time off
• 10 paid holidays
• Staff development and training
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligibility for federal student loans
• Employer paid CEU's through Relias
• On-site primary care
• PerkSpot- employee discount program
• MeMD- virtual health provider for you and your family
  • Free talk therapy
  • $0 Telehealth/urgent care
  • Discounted psychiatry
• Employee assistance program
• Advancement opportunities

About the Organization

Hillcrest Family Services is a non-profit organization that assists adults and children in need of help. Every day, Hillcrest builds confidence in hundreds of people and families. We strive to be a leading provider in supporting brain health and wellness. We are a place where compassion is commonplace. Where our passion soars and faith restores.

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