Top "Must-Have" Skills for this job:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Human Service Field (example include but not limited to: Psychology, Education, Sociology, Criminal Justice) with no experience (experience preferred)

OR

• BS/BA Degree in a non-Human Service field with a least one-year paid experience with children and/or families

OR

• AA Degree in a Human Service field (or 60 credits toward a BS/BA degree) and at least three years paid experience with children and/or families

• Valid PA Driver’s License (Required – Will not consider other state licenses)

• Child Abuse Clearance, Criminal Background, and FBI Clearances MUST be obtained

Full Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)

• PTO, Paid Holidays, 401K

• Perks @ Pathways (student loan refinancing, pet insurance, Verizon wireless discount, movie, hotel, concert and sporting event discounts)

The person in this position provides one-to-one mental health interventions to children and adolescents between the ages of twenty-four months and twenty-one years old who are confronted with serious, identified, emotional and/or behavioral disturbances. The goal of the Therapeutic Support Staff (TSS) worker is to improve independent age-appropriate functioning to levels which require less or no service intervention. The TSS worker will attempt to transfer skills to the child/adolescent and parents.

Responsibilities:

• Provides face-to-face behavioral interventions

• Implements Individualized Treatment Plans

• Provides support to parents, teachers, and community individuals

• Delivers and models treatment interventions

• Provides positive reinforcement to the clients and families

• Implements consequences for inappropriate actions as agreed upon

• Communicates with peers and co-workers and exchanges information which is important in achieving the individual goals for the clients

• Performs related work as required

• Prevent dependency on TSS services from the child and/or family by strictly adhering to the Individualized Treatment Plan

• Setting and adhering to professional boundaries with all clients and families

• Provides culturally aware and competent service provision