Job description

Shift is evenings and weekends, with limited daytime hours.
Position Purpose:
Responsible for providing on-call intervention on weekdays after business hours and on the weekends. The Trauma Specialist will provide phone coverage and respond to youths in crisis who are experiencing behavioral dysregulation. The Trauma Specialist will deescalate youths in foster homes in the least restrictive manner using trauma informed tools and practices.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• A Bachelor's degree in Human Services or related field with 2-years of experience.

• Provides counseling, either by phone or in person, to deescalate youths in crisis and maintain their safety in the foster homes or in the community.

• Utilizes trauma informed tools and practices to stabilize youths experiencing intense behavioral dysregulation that is affecting their placement stability.

• Utilizes coaching techniques to support foster parents with youths who are experiencing crisis in the homes.

• Responsible for providing immediate response to youths who are in need of psychiatric assessment and potential hepatization.

• Corresponds with community crisis intervention programs such as CHAMPS or Mobile Crisis Stabilization team.

• Maintains the Emergency Phone Log and provides timely communication of crisis intervention conducted to the IFC social work team.

• Completes CFSA unusual or critical incident reports within 24 hours of the incident.

• Reports all critical incidents and unusual incidents to NCCF leadership team within 1 hour of the incident.

• Participates in routine supervision with the Program Director and attends monthly IFC meetings.

• Participates in 30 hours of training annually to include, but not limited to: trauma trainings, therapeutic crisis intervention, CPI, de-escalation of dysregulated youths and coaching foster parents through crisis and managing their own behaviors.

• Participates in mandatory all staff meetings and other foster care division meetings and events.

• Maintains CEUs for licensure.

Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Acts as liaison with outside external agencies and representatives.

• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Position Requirements:

• MSW degree with LGSW, LCSW with one year of related experience.

• Strong commitment to teamwork and to serving difficult, vulnerable youth and their families.

• Broad working knowledge relative to the needs of youths and families who have experienced trauma, victimization, learning disabled, adolescents and their family systems.

• Demonstrates cross-cultural competencies.

• An attitude compatible with the goals and missions of NCCF.

Physical Demands/Work Environment:
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required y this job require close vision working with a computer monitor. While performing the duties of this job, employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. While performing the responsibilities of the employee’s job, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the employee will encounter. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.