Family Support Therapist, Bilingual Spanish

TeamBuilders is a community-based behavioral health organization with a vision to provide unconditional care to adults, children and families. TeamBuilders’ commitment also translates to its employees and their families. TeamBuilders truly promotes work-life balance and creativity. TeamBuilders encourages employees to pursue their passions, participate in educational opportunities, and enjoy the work they do. TeamBuilders offers supervision and training opportunities to all its staff. TeamBuilders also sets high expectations for achieving excellence in service to the community. The pursuit of excellence is fundamental to employee success and growth within the organization.

The Family Services Therapist (FST) is accountable to the Clinical Director or designee; however, is expected to work effectively with all program managers, coordinators, and staff throughout the agency. This position requires meeting with children and families where they are including in-home, school- and community-based settings.

The FST must work in collaboration with all staff and treatment team members including families. The FST is responsible for working in partnership with families to conduct intake, psychosocial assessment, triage, safety planning, care coordination, community support, skills development, therapeutic activities, and plan of care development/monitoring in the Family Services Program.

• Must be 21 years of age or older.
• Holds current New Mexico License in good standing: PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LPCC, LMFT, LPAT, LMHC, or LMSW;
• At least 2 years prior experience working with severely emotionally disturbed (SED) children and their family members;
• Additional minimum staff education and experience required: 
• Bachelor’s degree in a human services related field plus 1 year of experience working with serious emotional disturbance (SED) children and families; or, 
• Associate degree in a human services related field plus 2 years of experience working with SED children and families; or,
• High School Diploma or General Education Development plus 3 years of experience working with SED children and families; or,
• Completed training for certification as a Certified Peer or Family Specialist approved by the State of New Mexico.
• Receipt of a Certificate of Completion certifying 20 hours of CCSS training or Provisional Certificate of Completion certifying 18 hours of CCSS training, approved by the State of New Mexico.
• Obtained a Criminal Records Clearance (local, state, and FBI) from the Children Youth & Families Department (CYFD).
• Has current certifications in Adult, Child and Infant CPR and First Aid.
• Has and continues to maintain a clean driving record and active auto insurance coverage.

• Has demonstrated the ability to consistently establish and maintain positive, healthy relationships and boundaries while working effectively and cooperatively with clients, families, colleagues, staff, and community members.
• Has a thorough knowledge and use of community resources.  
• Must be computer literate in order to effectively maintain compliance with state and federal standards and requirements for use of computerized client assessments, data systems, etc. 
• Bilingual/Bicultural in English and Spanish

TeamBuilders is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.