Early Childhood Group Support (Therapeutic Classroom)
Full Time
Minneapolis, MN 55405
Posted
Job description
All are welcome! People of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply!
Benefits at Washburn:
Washburn offers benefits to Full-Time benefit eligible employees comprehensive Dental, Vision, Health, Life and Long term disability insurance. Additionally we offer a 403b retirement plan and a flexible benefit option (FSA).
Vacation: Paid Vacation accrues at 10 hours of vacation per month - up to 15 days / 120 hours annually.
Sick Leave: Paid sick leave accrues at 6.68 hours of sick per month - up to 10 days / 80 hours.
Holidays: There are 2.5 days/20 hours of floating holidays per year in addition to the eight standard holidays.
***Please note that Internships, Part-Time (less than 30 hours/week) and Temporary positions are NOT eligible for all of Washburn Center's benefits***
About Us:
Washburn Center for Children is a leading children’s mental health center, caring for a wide variety of children’s needs associated with anxiety, depression, behavioral difficulties and trauma.
The 133-year-old nonprofit offers critical mental health intervention to help children - and their families - realize hope. Washburn Center for Children serves more than 2,800 children ages 0-18 and approximately 8,500 family members each year. Washburn Center’s three office locations – Brooklyn Park, Edina, and Minneapolis – serve the entire Twin Cities metro area. The nonprofit also offers in-home services, and its school-based program serves 22 schools in the Eden Prairie, Bloomington and Minneapolis school districts.
The demand for therapeutic care has skyrocketed. Join our team to help children through the setbacks of life and create a better future. To learn more about how we do that work in homes, schools and clinic-based services, visit us online.
Provide daily group support floating between family focus classrooms with children ages 3-5 years old. As Group Support this individual will also play a primary role planning themes and organizing materials and have adequate staffing and therapy materials.
Responsibilities
Group Therapy – You will be required to provide group therapy, including the following:
Provide a safe and welcoming physical group therapy environment by ensuring the room, toys, books, and furniture in are in good condition, interesting, clean, and represents the diverse cultural and developmental needs of the clients. Prepare the rooms, order supplies, and maintain the group therapy space.- Work with co-therapists to provide and lead scheduled group services
- Plan and implement therapeutic activities based on the child’s individual treatment plan goals and objectives, developmental needs, and therapeutic group themes
- Lead a group environment that demonstrates consistency, respectful communication, safety, predictability, clear limits, and encouragement
- Intervene respectfully, safely, and directly to maintain the children’s physical and emotional safety and use therapeutic approaches to help prevent aggressive, destructive, and harmful behavior
- Ability to use and apply therapeutic methods learned through the Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) which includes verbal de-escalation and therapeutic holds
- Care coordination, including collaboration with psychiatrists and other professionals working with the child
- Work with co-therapists, program supervisors, and program support to maintain enrollment of 6 children and a daily attendance of 5 children in the group setting
- Provide fill in support to cover group settings for co-therapists when needed
Position Schedule: Monday - Thursday 12:30p to 4:300p
Vaccine Requirements at Washburn:
Washburn Center for Children (WCC) maintains a COVID-19 Preparedness Plan that mitigates the transmission and spread of COVID-19 to ensure the safety of staff, clients, residents, and community members. As part of the COVID-19 Preparedness Plan and to comply with federal, state, and local government regulations Washburn requires COVID-19 vaccinations for:
- All employees
- All interns/trainees/fellows
- Contractors/consultants who are working onsite at a WCC facility and/or are delivering services to clients regardless of location
- All volunteers (including Board of Trustees members) who have in-person contact with WCC staff, clients, or volunteers
Exemptions for medical or religious reasons may be requested and submitted for review.
Washburn Center for Children is an EEO/AA employer: women, minorities, people with disabilities, people that hold different gender identities and expressions and veterans are encouraged to apply. Cultural responsiveness and advancing equity are essential to achieving our mission. Our core values guide how we actively heal, learn and work.
To learn more about life at Washburn and how we work together, visit us online.
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