Clinician (Visitation Therapist)

Overview

Catholic Charities of Buffalo is excited to announce an opportunity for a per diem Clinician (Visitation Therapist). We are seeking a dedicated professional to join our Family Enrichment Program on a per diem basis, up to 17 hours per week.

As a Visitation Therapist, you will create a secure and nurturing environment for children and parents with a history of separation, neglect, and/or abuse. Your role will be to facilitate healing and strengthen family bonds during supervised visits. You must be comfortable holding parents accountable to program rules while maintaining a positive rapport. Additionally, you will engage with children, ensuring their physical and emotional safety during visits, and respond appropriately to their needs.

Catholic Charities is non-profit human services agency that strives to empower individuals, children, and families across the eight counties of Western New York. For more than 100 years, Catholic Charities of Buffalo has provided HOPE to individuals and families of all faiths, backgrounds, and circumstances. 

As the most comprehensive provider of human services in Western New York, Catholic Charities delivers wide-ranging programs to address systemic poverty, sudden financial crisis, hunger, behavioral health, workforce readiness, family stability, legal immigration and resettlement, and help for older adults. As a trauma-informed agency, we strive to support the total wellbeing of clients and employees. 

Catholic Charities prioritizes wellness and diversity through various committees such as: CARE (Compassion, Acceptance, Respect for Everyone) Committee to create an inclusive environment where every individual feels seen, heard, and valued; Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) Committee to lead agency efforts in creating and maintaining a trauma-informed workplace; Wellbeing Committee to empower staff to reach their full potential through personal wellness and community support; and the Safety Committee to maintain a physically and psychologically safe and welcoming environment for all.

Job Responsibilities

• Engage in weekly case planning and evaluation of case progress, with ongoing support from your supervisor and team members
• Provide client-centered, strengths-based, solution-focused trauma-informed care in the context of systems. Cultivate a culture of sensitivity and respect for diversity.
• Conduct a thorough assessment of the client and family: gather information on behaviors of concern and strengths in the family and their ecology to inform conceptualization of the problem behaviors and interactions within the family's ecological context.
• Work comfortably with a diverse community of clients
• Continuously work to engage the parent, primary caregiver, family members, supports, and collateral contacts including (counselors, ECDSS, etc...)
• Is respectful, empowering, strength-focused, responsive, empathic, and able work with parents to challenge behaviors and increase their understanding of their children's needs.
• Demonstrates ability to intervene when needed during access, to ensure children's safety.
• Willing and able to work with mandated clients and deescalate and/or manage conflict if it arises
• Exemplify Catholic Charities' mission, vision, guiding principles and values. Cultivate a culture of equity and inclusion.
• Communicate, comply with, promote and monitor integrity and ethical performance, consistent with Catholic Charities' Corporate Compliance, Code of Ethics, HIPAA, legal mandates & labor laws, managing contractual/funder regulations & accreditation standards, regulations, policies and procedures (e.g. COA, BBB)

Qualifications

• Master's degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area preferred, or a bachelor's degree with experience working with family and/or youth services will be considered. New master's level graduates are encouraged to apply.
• Consistent use of strengths-based trauma-informed care approach.
• Effective assessment and engagement skills with mandated clients.
• Must be prepared to work a flexible schedule including two evenings and one partial weekend day to facilitate visits.
• As responsibilities may require travel including transporting children, must have appropriate and reliable transportation, and an agency-required level of auto insurance coverage and be able to travel as needed.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• 403(b) retirement plan 
• Employer‑paid life insurance and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training & development opportunities

Applicants must reside in New York State to be considered.

Compensation shown above may vary based on factors including but not limited to skills, education, location and experience. 

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Catholic Charities of Buffalo is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals, regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. Catholic Charities of Buffalo will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities, unless such accommodations would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the business. If you require reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact [email protected].