Childrens Therapy Assistant (after school program & summer program)

1st Priority Healthcare LLC Scope of Work/ Contract agreement: Day Treatment Specialist •This is a part-time contract position•We are seeking a professional with availability Monday-Friday 9am-3:30pm during the summer and Monday-Friday during the hours of 1pm-7pm when school resumes. Scope of work overview Day Treatment Services are the most intensive outpatient services available to children/youth. The services must provide an alternative to residential treatment or acute psychiatric hospitalization or serve as a transition from these services. Day Treatment is a behavioral intervention and strengths-based program, provided in the context of a therapeutic milieu, which provides children/adolescents with serious emotional/behavioral disturbances and/or intellectual/developmental disabilities the intensity of treatment necessary to enable them to live in the community. Day Treatment Services are based on behavior management principles and includes, at a minimum, positive feedback, self-esteem building and social skills training. Additional components are determined by the needs of the participants at a particular site and may include skills training in the areas of impulse control, anger management, problem solving, and/or conflict resolution. Scope of work  Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day Treatment Therapist with ensuring that the program operates at a minimum of two (2) hours per day, two (2) days per week, up to a maximum of five (5) hours per day, five (5) days per week.  Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day Treatment Therapist with ensuring that each child/youth enrolled in Day Treatment Services must receive Day Treatment Services at a minimum of two (2) hours per day, two (2) days per week up to a maximum of five (5) hours per day, five (5) days per week.  Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day Treatment Therapist with ensuring that each child's confidentiality is kept, no children other than those enrolled in Day Treatment Services can be present in the room during the time Day Treatment Services are being provided.  Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day Treatment Therapist with the following: A. Must assist in planning Day Treatment interventions and Curriculum of therapeutic interventions. Must assist in coordinating the Day Treatment Program. Must assist in evaluating Day Treatment Service efficacy for clients.  Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day treatment Therapist with ensuring that the day treatment program operates year round.  Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day treatment Therapist with ensuring that the day treatment curriculum covers but is not limited to: Functional living skills, Socialization or social skills Problem-solving Conflict resolution E. Self-esteemimprovement F. Anger control and impulse control  Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day treatment Therapist with ensuring that the approved curriculum is kept on site. Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day treatment Therapist with ensuring that all activities and strategies implemented are A. Therapeutic B. Ageappropriate C. Developmentally appropriate D. Relate to the objectives in each child/youth's Individual Service Plan  Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day Treatment Therapist with ensuring that the Day Treatment Program operates at any one time with a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of ten (10) children/youth.  Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day Treatment Therapist with ensuring that Day Treatment roll/roster cannot exceed ten (10) children/youth per program with the exception of Day Treatment Services for children and youth with alcohol and other drug disorders.  Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day Treatment Therapist with ensuring that the programs master schedule is kept on file at each location and at a minimum the specific skill areas being addressed each day and the specific times these skill areas are being addressed. Skill area activities shown on the Master Schedule must be curriculum- specific. Identification numbers of individuals receiving services must be listed for all individuals participating in each skill area (time period) being addressed.  Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day Treatment Therapist with ensuring the ratio of staff to children/youth receiving services in each Day Treatment Program will be maintained.  Day Treatment Specialist will assist the Day Treatment Therapist with ensuring that the plans for transitioning a child to a less intensive therapeutic service when deemed clinically appropriate is properly documented. This documentation must be maintained in each child's Individual Service Plan in his/her record. Must have a clean driving record and be willing to transport children in the company vehicle. Client transportation is required. •This is a part-time contract position•We are seeking a professional with availability Monday-Friday 9am-3:30pm during the summer and Monday-Friday during the hours of 1pm-7pm when school resumes.

Job Types:

Part-time, Contract Pay:

$18.00 - $22.00 per hour

Benefits:

Professional development assistance Referral program

Work Location:

In person