This position is responsible for providing therapeutic counseling to the youth participating in the Residential Youth Services program.

Candice Batterson
candiceb@htop.org
970.245.3952

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Employee must have regular attendance/punctuality, be able to cooperate with others, and be completely honest. Other assigned duties include:
1. Completing the initial assessment for incoming youth within 10 days, including diagnosis, suicide assessment, vocational assessment, recreation and leisure time interests’ assessment, life skills assessment, drug and alcohol history, and recommendations for treatment.
2. Facilitating all clinically indicated individual, group, and family treatment for each youth and family. Ensuring each contact is documented and filed appropriately.
3. Creating a brief monthly summary regarding each youth’s participation in individual, group and family therapy activities. Outlining progress in the service plan, as well as dates and times of participation and any significant events.
4. Approving visits and phone contacts for each youth.
5. Meeting a minimum of twice per month with the psychiatrist for medication management and evaluations.
6. Acting as a liaison with all necessary community based agencies and attending their required meetings when necessary, such as with the Probation Department, the school district, Foster Care Reviews, Utilization Reviews, etc.
7. Maintaining an ongoing record of all clinical contacts for each youth that will include dates, times, and type of contact with a brief description.
8. Completing monthly Medicaid billing documentation in a timely manner.
9. Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

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.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Master’s degree in a counseling or related field and two years of treatment-related experience. License is required.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS PREFERRED:
Education: Must have at least 2 of the following: (1) QMAP Certification, (2) CPR/First Aide
Certification, (3) CPI Certification, (4) Informed Supervisor of Sex Offenders
Experience: CAC III, or Sex Offender Certification; 2 years RCCF/TRCCF experience
Special Skills: 1 year Medicaid billing experience; other specialized training (i.e., ART, DBT, etc)

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Must be able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, as well as Hilltop and program specific policies and procedures. Must be able to write routine documentation as required. Must be able to verbally communicate effectively with clients and co-workers.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Must be able to add and subtract two digit numbers, and to multiply and divide by 10’s and 100’s. Must be able to perform these operations using units of American money, weight measurements, volume measurement, and distance. Must be able to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY
Must be able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Must be able to interpret instructions that are furnished in a variety of formats including written, oral, diagram, and/or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
• Colorado Driver’s License
• CPR/First Aid Certificate
• Medication administration Certification
• CPI Crisis Prevention Certificate

CLEARANCES
The following background checks are conducted by Hilltop Community Resources:
• Criminal background
• Child Abuse Registry

EXPOSURE CATEGORY: [ 2 ] Job tasks involve no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue, but employment may require unplanned category 1 exposure.

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.

Mobility:
• Must be able to stand 10% of the time; sit 80% of the time; walk 10% of the time.
• Stooping (bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist).
• Kneeling (bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees).
• Crouching (bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine).
• Reaching (extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction).

Dexterity:
• Handling (seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand or hands).
• Fingering (picking, pinching, or otherwise working primarily with fingers).
• Feeling (perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips).

Lifting:
• Must be able to exert up to 40 pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.

Communication:
• Must be able to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word. Must be able to clearly understand the English language and be understood while speaking the English language. Must be able to give instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Hearing:
• Must be able to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Must be able to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

Taste/Smell:
• Must be able to distinguish, with a degree of accuracy, differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors and/or odors, or recognize particular flavors and/or odors, using the tongue and/or nose.

Vision: Must have the following vision abilities:
• Close vision (clear at 20 inches or less).
• Far vision (clear at 20 feet or more).
• Depth perception (Three-dimensional vision. The ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are.)
• Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
• Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors).
• Field of vision (observing an area that can be seen up and down or right or left while eyes are fixed in a given point).

Physical effort:
• Light work (light physical effort is required by handling objects up to 40 pounds occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently).

WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Physical surroundings:
• 80% of time is spent indoors; 20% of time is spent outdoors.
• Occasionally exposed to physically and/or verbally aggressive clients.
• The noise level is usually moderate.