Job Details
Job Location
Waugh – Houston, TX
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
Graduate Degree
Travel Percentage
Up to 50%
Job Shift
Day
Job Category
Nonprofit – Social Services
Description
Being a Licensed Counselor – Disability Community at HAWC you will be responsible for providing services to adult survivors of domestic and sexual violence living with physical, mental, and intellectual disabilities using a trauma-informed, evidence-based and client-centered approach while assisting clients working toward self-sufficiency. The Licensed Counselor will facilitate group and/or individual counseling services at a variety of community-based partner locations in order to reduce barriers commonly encountered by individuals within this population.
Your Schedule:
- Full Time
- Monday – Friday
- Three days a week 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
- Two days a week 11:30 pm – 8:30 pm
- Work Model: hybrid
- Local Travel: 50%
Our Total Compensation Package:
- Starting Salary Range: $63,407.18 yearly
- Pay schedule bi-monthly
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance Programs
- Generous Paid time Off- 11 paid holidays per year, 3 personal holidays per year, 15 paid Vacation days per year, Approx 7 hours per month of accrued Sick days
- 401K the agency matches 125% of employee contributions up to 4% of the annual salary of a full-time employee
- Company paid Life Insurance
- Company paid Long Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in people’s lives. Working at Houston Area Women’s center gives you a rewarding experience in which our diverse team of employees work together as part of the empowerment of a survivor’s life and at the same time part of a much larger mission. We are committed to doing the work and challenging each other to be an organization in which everyone is respected and heard. Every day we continue to embed diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity in everything we do as we provide service to survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Qualifications
The Requirements We are Seeking:
- Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling or Psychology
- LMSW, or LCSW, or LPC or LMFT
- A minimum of three year’s counseling experience working with adults.
- A minimum of six months experience working with groups.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Bilingual in both Spanish and English, preferred.
- You have a valid Texas driver’s license with a good driving record; reliable transportation; ability to travel to off-site locations utilizing personal transportation.
What you Deliver in this role:
- Provide group and/or individual counseling services to survivors of domestic and sexual violence living with physical, mental, and intellectual disabilities.
- Maintain collaborative relationships with community-based locations that provide services for individuals living with physical, mental, and intellectual disabilities.
- Provide training to incoming staff, volunteers and community partners on domestic and sexual violence survivors with disabilities.
- Work cooperatively with other staff to ensure optimal utilization of resources and efficient management of program.
- Mandatory Reporting: report suspected and prior abuse/neglect to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services when appropriate.
- Advocate at HAWC and other agencies on behalf of adults and children.
- Communicate concerns about clients to supervisor.
- Maintain accurate records and appropriate documentation of services.
- Other duties may be assigned.
What Skills and Assets you bring, and more:
- Excellent attention to details
- Demonstration of professional objectivity and appreciation for confidential information
- Ability to follow instructions and to adhere to policies and procedures
- Ability to prioritize tasks to meet individual and team deadlines
- Has a growth mindset and is a good team player
- Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
When you work here at HAWC you make an impact not just in the lives of the survivors and the people you help, but also make an impact in our own lives and our community. We learn and grow with a purpose where we strive to work for a common cause, which is to end domestic and sexual violence for ALL.