Therapist - FFT

Therapist - FFT Location US-NY-Queens Job ID 2026-5170 Job Family Child Welfare Job Type Full-Time Shift Days Varies Shift Hours Varies Salary Range $72,000.00/year + $3,500 - Bilingual Additive (as applicable) + $1,000 – Provisional Licensure Additive (as applicable) + $4,000 – Full Licensure Additive (as applicable) Hours Per Week 35 Overview At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime. A Functional Family Therapist delivers comprehensive, evidence-based in-home therapy to a caseload of 8 families to support them in achieving their goals and ensuring their safety and well-being. Support the diverse families and communites of New York City to keep families together and reduce system involvment. Responsibilities *UP TO $2,000 SIGN ON INCENTIVE*** ***Sign-on Bonus is not permitted for internal candidates*** A Functional Family Therapist delivers comprehensive, evidence-based in-home therapy to a caseload of 8 families to support them in achieving their goals and ensuring their safety and well-being. Support the diverse families and communites of New York City to keep families together and reduce system involvment. Job Responsibilities: Provide in Home Evidence Based Treatment to assigned caseload of 8 families to decrease risk and safety factors and ensure families and individuals meet their treatment goals. Engage families and other key participants throughout treatment to engage in sessions and meetings and overcome barriers to engagement when they arise to ensure successful goal attainment. Document case progression in a timely and accurate manner in all databases to support treatment fidelity, tracking, and planning and ensure compliance with model and stakeholder requirements. Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with colleagues, community providers and model/external stakeholders to connect families to resources and support ongoing treatment communication and collaboration for effective treatment planning. Continuously assess for families safety, addressing crises, completing safety plans and incident reports in a timely manner as necessary to ensure the safety and well-being of all families served by the program with an emphasis on decreasing system involvement (could include after hour/on call support). Conduct intake through the completion of initial assessments and gather essential consent forms for new cases, ensuring timely case openings, completeness of information and family understanding of services to achieve a smooth start to treatment. Participate in group and individual supervision, model consultations, trainings, all staff meetings and community outreach events to strengthen professional development, skill growth, support case progression, group cohesion and community visibility. Provide case coverage for peers, as needed, to ensure consistent clinical support within the team. The New York Foundling is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse employee population, the Foundling will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming. Qualifications Masters degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or a related subject area. 2 years of accumulated relevant experience (internships through post-graduate) in child welfare, mental health or substance abuse. Excelle nt writing, communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, time management and organizational skills. Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Proven self-management abilities including meeting deadlines, prioritizing multiple tasks efficiently, timely completion of documentation and maintaining accurate and up-to-date case records. Ability to work effectively with a diverse, multidisciplinary team and connect with a diverse client population to engage them in services throughout treatment. Ability to receive and execute feedback to professionally grow and/or improve and be flexible with programmatic needs and changes. Ability to manage stress, self-care and maintain a high level of self-awareness. An understanding and commitment to complying with the New York State Central Register of Abuse and Neglect protocol (requirement to report any suspected abuse, maltreatment or neglect of any child). Must be comfortable and able to travel and visit families in their homes and perform safety assessments. Demonstrated strong commitment to safety. Education Required Masters’s Degree from a U.S. accredited educational institution or Credential Evaluation for a non-U.S. educational institution Salary Range: $72,000.00/year + $3,500 - Bilingual Additive (as applicable) + $1,000 – Provisional Licensure Additive (as applicable) + $4,000 – Full Licensure Additive (as applicable) Options Apply Apply Submit a Referral Refer Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later. Share on your newsfeed Application FAQs Software Powered by ICIMS www.icims.com