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Family Counselor - FPS

Acenda Integrated Health

#Behavioral Health #Non-Exempt #Family Therapy #Mental Health Services #Parenting Skills #Top Workplace #Crisis Care #Residential Programs #Community Providers

Quick overview

The Family Counselor provides intensive, short-term, in-home counseling to two families weekly, delivering a minimum of five hours of face-to-face support per family. Responsibilities include teaching and modeling effective parenting skills, strengthening parent-child interactions, and connecting families with necessary services and resources.

Requirements summary

Candidates must possess a Bachelor's degree in counseling or a related field, along with 1.5 years of professional experience, a valid driver's license, and an insured vehicle. Essential qualities include strong engaging, communication, and collaboration skills, reliability, initiative, and the ability to manage time effectively.

bachelor degreeCommunicationAdvocacyTime ManagementCounselingGoal SettingCollaborationReliabilityInitiativeFamily TherapyIn-Home SupportResource LinkingShort-Term InterventionParenting Skills Coaching

Job description

If you want to make a living by making a difference, join Acenda as an Counselor Non-Exempt Job Title: Family Counselor $500 Sign-on Bonus!
About Acenda Integrated Health Acenda Integrated Health provides 100+ behavioral health programs, including mental health services, crisis care, substance use recovery, family therapy, maternal and pediatric support, and residential programs across New Jersey.
Our team enjoys competitive benefits, work-life balance, professional development, and team engaging events.
Acenda is recognized as a multi-year Top Workplace by USA Today and The Inquirer and a Top Workplace Culture award winner for Work-Life Balance as well as Joint Commission accredited and certified by MHCA and the New Jersey Alliance for Children, Youth, and Families.
Join #TeamAcenda and make a lasting impact.
Job Overview As a Family Counselor, I provide short-term, intensive, in-home counseling to two families at a time, offering a minimum of five hours of weekly face-to-face support.
I teach, coach, and model effective parenting skills to strengthen parent-child interactions while connecting families to essential services and resources.
Additionally, I collaborate closely with DCP&P and community providers to ensure coordinated, family-centered care and lasting positive outcomes.
Program Info Family Preservation Services (FPS) is an in-home program intended to assist the Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P) in meeting the State’s obligation to preserve the sanctity of the family and prevent the placement of children outside the home by strengthening families through the application of intensive family preservation services.
The FPS program is mandated to provide services to families whose children are at imminent risk of placement, or whose children are being prepared for reunification.
The FPS program works to ensure the safety of all family members, prevent the out-of-home placement of children considered to be at imminent risk of removal from their home, improve family functioning, reduce the recurrence of maltreatment, help families utilize community resources more effectively, and assist families with the process of reunification where separation or removal has already occurred.
Key Responsibilities: Provide short-term, intensive, in-home counseling to 2 families at a time, each receiving a minimum of 5 hours of weekly face-to-face contact.
Teach, coach and model parenting skills and effective parent-child interactions and advocate and link families to concrete services and supports.

Family Counselor - FPS

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