Job Opportunities

About the Agency

The Parents Center is a non-profit agency that has been providing culturally sensitive, trauma-informed, integrated mental health services to youth and families for over 30 years. We provide counseling/therapy services to our most vulnerable families throughout Santa Cruz County, utilizing a wrap-around model in multiple settings, including families, homes, schools, community and our offices in both north and south county.

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Bilingual Adult Therapist

 

Job Requirements and Duties

The Parents Center is currently hiring a licensed or license-eligible therapist to provide counseling services for parents with open child welfare cases. Position involves assisting parents in meeting their court-ordered case plan requirements; extensive collaboration with other service providers to support family treatment goals; and working with parents who have experienced trauma, both in the past and currently with their involvement in the child welfare system.

 

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's level education in Social Work, Psychology or related field

• A high level of flexibility, reliability, and organization

• Writing and computer skills, including writing professional case notes

• Adherence to all confidentiality requirements

• Knowledge of:

  • Symptoms and behaviors of mental health

  • Principles and methods of interviewing, counseling, crisis intervention and assessing psychosocial behaviors

  • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) Criteria

  • Strength based and culturally appropriate services

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience providing therapy

• Previous experience working with mandated clients

• Ability to provide CBT, DBT, and/or EMDR or other trauma-informed treatments

• Bilingual in English/Spanish

 

At the Parents Center, we believe that hiring staff that reflect the populations that we serve is essential, and that historically marginalized communities - including BIPOC humans, LGBTQ humans, women, and humans with lived experience related to this work - must be centered in the work that we do. As such, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

 

We Provide

• A supportive, anti-racist, trauma-informed, learning-oriented work environment alongside a highly engaged and compassionate team of colleagues

• An opportunity to do meaningful work in our community

• Signing bonus after 90 days of employment

• Competitive pay, with a pay increase after first 90 days of employment

• Flexible schedules

• Hourly pay differential for bilingual skills awarded upon qualification

• Weekly clinical supervision / clinical hours for license-track clinicians

  • Our clinical supervisor is highly experienced and passionate about their role in supporting clinicians who are new to the mental health field

• Diverse training opportunities

• Benefits including:

  • Dental insurance

  • Health insurance

  • Vision insurance

  • Life/Disability insurance

  • Retirement plan

  • Paid time off

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Extra Details

Job Type: Full Time and Part Time

Starting Pay:

Unlicensed: $29/hour; $30/hour if bilingual

            Licensed: $31/hour; $32/hour if bilingual

            Potential to negotiate based on experience

Work Location: Offices in Santa Cruz and Watsonville

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Family Time Supervisor (2 openings, 1 bilingual only)

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Job Requirements and Duties
Under the supervision of the Family Time Team Supervisor, the Family Time Supervisor provides court-ordered supervised family time (visits) for children (ages 0-17) and their families while they are in foster care. Family Time Supervisors are required to facilitate visits with referred parents and their children in
order to monitor, teach, and encourage healthy parent-child relationships and assist children and parents in the work of family reunification and preservation whenever possible. Requires extensive transportation and use of personal vehicle.
 
The Family Time Supervisor is a dynamic position that includes the following core competencies: 

• High level of communication, organizational, computer and writing skills

• Early childhood education knowledgesuch, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities. 

• Familiarity with symptoms and behaviors of mental health

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Education, Experience, and Qualifications
Must have:

•  Experience working with children and families

•  Provide safe transportation as needed to various locations throughout the county

• Schedule and manage visits

• Review case histories and presenting problems of referred families

• Work collaboratively with social workers, resource parents, therapists, and any others involved with the family

• Participate in weekly supervision

• Write visitation logs, timely and accurately

• Must be able to lift at least 30 pounds

• Ability to work evenings and weekends, as needed

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Ideally have: 

o Bachelor’s Degree in related field
o Strong computer literacy 
o Ability to speak and write in both Spanish and English
 
At the Parents Center, we believe that hiring staff that reflect the populations that we serve is essential,
and that historically marginalized communities - including BIPOC humans, LGBTQ humans, women, and humans with lived experience related to this work - must be centered in the work that we do. 

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We Provide

• A supportive, anti-racist, trauma-informed, learning-oriented work environment alongside a

• A highly engaged and compassionate team of colleagues

• An opportunity to do meaningful work in our community

• Signing bonus after 90 days of employment

• Competitive pay, with a pay increase after first 90 days of employment

• Flexible schedules

• Diverse training opportunities

• Benefits including: 

• Dental insurance

• Health insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Retirement plan 

• Paid time off

 

Extra Details 
Job Type: part- and full-time available 
Starting Pay: $23 / hour, $24 / hour if bilingual, commensurate with experience 
Work Location: Offices in Santa Cruz and Watsonville

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