Group Facilitator Jobs

Want to work where you will help to restore lives and make a difference in our communities? Come serve alongside us at New Freedom! We offer rewarding pay and total rewards, such as:

• FREE in-house gym and personal training services
• Low-cost Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Account, and Life Insurance
• FREE meals/snacks/drinks each shift
• FREE Employee Assistance Program and Employer-Paid Short-Term Disability
• Paid Sick Time (PST)
• 401k
• Paid Time Off (PTO)

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New Freedom’s Clinical Group Facilitator will function as a role model to members working on their re-entry by exhibiting competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills while successfully facilitating member groups. The Group Facilitator will focus primarily on curriculum, development and ensuring dynamic group facilitation requirements are met for member groups that run weekly and multiple times per day. Using approved curriculum, the Group Facilitator performs a wide range of tasks to assist members of all ages with regards to regaining independence within the community and mastery over their own recovery process. Recovery resources and facilitation best practices will be utilized by the Group Facilitator in the provision of services.

RESPONSIBILITIES: Through planning, development, and delivery of defined member group curriculum and group learning, the following are key roles:

• Document group facilitation and all other required member documentation associated with assigned group(s)/team(s).
• Submit for approval any recommended enhancements to curriculum as needed and based on member needs.
• Ongoing development of enhanced group facilitation and classroom management techniques, including group activities to keep members engaged in the content being delivered.
• Support members in identifying and creating goals and developing recovery plans with the skills, strengths, supports and resources to aid them in achieving those goals.
• Complete all necessary and required documentation within 24 hours of service provided.
• Performs other duties as assigned by administration
• Assist members in working with their Member Care Team in determining the steps he/she needs to take in order to achieve these goals and self-directed recovery outside of group.
• Recommend direct support as needed to the treatment team for members based on group interactions or observations.
• Assist members in building social skills in the community that will enhance job acquisition and tenure.
• Follow the assigned member group curriculum format and schedule.
• Assist members via group facilitation and activities in articulating personal goals for recovery through the use of group sessions.
• Aid in various daily living activities to support the re-entry and recovery processes.
• Encourage ongoing individual and group sessions to ensure a successful re-entry experience. By using identified literature, media, etc., members will gain hope, learn to identify their strengths, and combat negative self-talk.
• Client engagement expectation: The clinical supervisor is expected to encounter clients for a minimum of 1000 minutes per week of their scheduled workdays.
• Observe members and group dynamics, listen to their concerns, records their observations and reports to therapist about any unusual behavior(s).
• Gather ongoing feedback to ensure group content and delivery is meaningful, relevant, and directly relevant for members’ successful graduation and re-entry from the New Freedom program.
• Assess a member’s changes in mood, and determine whether it is positive, negative, or potentially dangerous. Clinical Group Facilitator must be able to assess whether it is positive, negative, or potentially dangerous, as well as take steps to modify the member’s actions or alert medical or therapist professionals.

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have the ability to maintain excellent client relationships and provide excellent customer service.
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and problem-solving skills required.
• Peer Support Specialist Certification and lived experience relevant for our member population is preferred.
• Lived experience to qualify as a Certified Peer Support Specialist is preferred but not required.
• Must be able to stay organized and utilize critical thinking and time management skills.
• Minimum of one (1) year of experience facilitating group(s) is required.
• Must be punctual and accountable.
• Excellent facilitation techniques, best practices, and proven success in a similar peer led model leading groups is required.
• Versatility, flexibility, and a willingness to work within constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm.
• Excellent professional and ethical boundaries across all aspects of the clinical group facilitator and member therapeutic relationship.
• Computer skills – KIPU, MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook).
• Successful recovery and direct work experience in similar behavioral health setting is required.
• Specialized training in the following areas: managing aggressive behavior, interpersonal skills, abnormal psychology, chemical dependency and counseling, recovery, and re-entry.

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