Starting Compensation: 

• Bachelors w/ Licensure: $49,550 - $61,000
• Masters w/ Licensure: $54,694 - $68,000 

Learn about The Buckeye Ranch:

For decades, The Buckeye Ranch has been restoring hope and providing healing for children, youth, and families in Central Ohio. Our continuum of care addresses every stage and aspect of what children may be experiencing after traumas caused by mental illness, abuse, or neglect. With help from The Buckeye Ranch, they’re empowered to overcome obstacles, tap into their resilience, and move forward toward healthy, fulfilling lives.

The Buckeye Ranch is currently seeking a Home-Based Counselor/Social Worker to join our Intensive Family Support team. The Home-Based Counselor/Social Worker provides therapy and support for youth and families who are struggling with behavioral and delinquency issues. Develops and implements appropriate therapeutic treatment plans to improve the child's ability to function. A clinician in our community-based program empowers youth and their families to overcome dynamics that put youth at risk of being removed from their homes. Our program provides a variety of intensity mental health interventions to our most at need clients in the community. Therapists’ caseloads are based on the intensity of clients they are assigned and provide services in the home at times convenient to the family. The average length of treatment is between 6 and 12 months. A successful candidate will go through intensive on-site training to learn the agency’s treatment model and then receive ongoing training and supervision to help develop their clinical skills to ensure they provide the best services possible to their clients. All Buckeye Ranch employees are part of a smaller close-knit team that support each other in and out of the workplace and must effectively work with and be respectful and sensitive to persons from various cultures, socioeconomic, ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds.

Schedule: Full-time, Exempt (Monday-Friday, Normal Business Hours), Occasional Evenings

• This is not a fully remote position but will provide a hybrid working model.

Location: 4653 E. Main St. Whitehall, Ohio 43213

What you’ll do:

• Assesses clients for appropriate level of care, including behavioral examples, including frequency, duration, severity, and environmental impacts.
• Identifies history of trauma, adversity and/or toxic stress that influence presenting problem(s), functioning, and family interaction styles. Determines the level of immediate and future risk of abuse or neglect to children.
• Identifies cultural factors that influence strengths, functioning, and family interaction styles. Identifies strengths and functioning of both client and family for utilization in treatment.
• Collaborate with admissions and engagement and complete comprehensive diagnostic assessments as needed.
• Complete program specific assessments such as DLA 20 or ASQ.
• Develops training plans and facilitates coaching, ensuring that services are family focused.
• Demonstrates practicality, flexibility, and adaptability in the process of working with others, emphasizing the achievement of goals. Adjusts the type and intensity of services to the needs of the client.
• Ensures that referrals are made as early in treatment as possible. Ensures family members are supported through the discharge process. Communicates changes in recommendations and/or referrals in a timely and concise manner to all stakeholders. 
• Schedule and conduct therapeutic counseling sessions with individuals, families and treatment teams based on cases assigned and at the established acuity for each family. Appointments must be made at times that families can participate; evening work is expected. Work with supervisor to adjust acuity when the needs of the families change.
• Uses trauma-informed, focused interventions to engage clients. Educates clients, family members, and other providers about healthcare conditions, prevention, available treatments, illness and whole health self-management, peer support and recovery.
• Manages behavioral health crises through appropriate interventions. Respond to perceived resistance in a non-confrontational manner and intervene to help child regain control and reduce risk at it pertains to the position held.
• Supports the safety of youth at the time of placement as it pertains to the position held.
• Consistently records client progress in relation to treatment goals. Provides accurate, concise narrative when needed on any documentation, including progress notes, treatment plans, behavior management programs and discharge planning on an accurate and timely basis.
• Meet or exceed productivity requirements as established by the agency.
• Closely monitor the Utilization Management information provided on the Productivity Calculator. Promptly correct any data that is not in compliance with expectations (e.g., 12-hour notes; treatment plan reviews; Ohio Scales)
• Make corrections to errors on any administrative or UM reports including but not limited to incorrect delivery methods, blank notes, overlapping notes, invalid diagnoses, and invalid/incorrect place of service.
• Completes paperwork within defined timelines (Progress notes should be documented on the same day services are provided but are due – at the latest – within 7 days of the service that was provided).
• Make contact with newly assigned cases within 48 hours of assignment and have first appointment within 7 days of case assignment.

Who you are:

• You have a bachelor’s degree in social work, or related field; master’s degree preferred
• You have 6 months to 1 year of mental health treatment experience
• You have an active Ohio LSW or LPC
• You have an active driver’s license
• You preferably have previous work experience as a Counselor, Therapist, Social Worker, or Clinician

Where you’ll be:

• The Home-Based Counselor/Social Worker will allow some work from home, in office, and community-based setting
• The Home-Based Counselor/Social Worker is required to meet clients within their homes

Our benefits:

Benefit effective date: First of the month following 30 days of employment.

• Wonderful medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid Time Off (Four weeks within the first year)
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Company Paid Short Term Disability
• 401K + Employer Contribution
• Non-Profit Student Loan Forgiveness Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Program

Applicants are considered for all positions in accordance with statutes and regulations concerning non-discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, age, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, non-disqualifying disability, veteran status, or other protected classification. The Buckeye Ranch is an equal opportunity employer, as well as a substance and tobacco free workplace. All offers of employment are contingent on satisfactory pre-employment drug screen.

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