Therapeutic Staff Support Worker

Overview:
Northern Tier Counseling has immediate openings for part-time temporary Therapeutic Staff Support Workers.  The TSS worker provides one-on-one intervention to a child or adolescent at home, school, daycare, YMCA, emergency room, other community based programs or community settings when the behavior without this intervention would require a more restrictive treatment or educational setting.

Responsibilities and Duties include:

• Specific interventions to stabilizing child or adolescent.

• Support for the family's effort to stabilize the child or adolescent and to promote age appropriate behavior by working with the family.

• Collaboration with other members of the treatment team and other professionals working in the home or in the other community settings and participation in interagency service planning meetings when possible.

• Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills as well as the ability to work effectively as a team member.

Qualified people will include: 1) Persons with a college degree in a human services field with no work experience; 2) Persons with a college degree in other fields with one year of paid work experience that involved direct contact with children or adolescents; 3) Persons with an Associate's Degree or with two years of college and three years of experience in paid work that involved direct contact with children or adolescents; 4) Registered nurses with one year of paid work experience that involved direct contact with children or adolescents; and 5) Licensed practical nurses with three years of paid work experience that involved direct contact with children or adolescents.

Interested candidates can contact the NTC Human Resources Department by clicking here.

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