The Group Facilitator works with BIPP participants to help them recognize, take responsibility for and end their abusive and controlling behavior. H/She works with different sectors of the community in a coordinated effort to promote accountability for men and women who batter and to increase the safety and self-determination of domestic violence victims.
Responsibilities
Provides Battering Intervention and Prevention Services
- Provide quality services consistent with the agency philosophy and agency procedures
- Assist in orienting new participants
- Conduct psycho-social evaluation sessions with individual participants
- Provide educational groups using appropriate counseling techniques
- Provide limited individual services
- Maintain contact with partners/victims of participants and provide them with appropriate information and assistance as needed
- Complete and submit group activity reports, timesheets and other paperwork in a timely manner and in accordance with agency procedures
- Maintain accurate financial and case records for group participants
- Provide on-the-job training, supervision and support to student interns and volunteers placed in the groups that he/she facilitates
- Substitute for other group facilitators on an as-needed basis
- Prepare BIPP client partner closing letters
- Register BIPP participants and schedule evaluation and orientation appointments
- Participate in community outreach by providing training for referral sources and other community partners
- Perform other duties as assigned
Agency Representation
- Develop and maintain cooperative relationships with police, prosecutors, courts, probation, parole, social service and domestic violence agencies in the geographic region served by the groups he/she facilitates
- Maintain CEUs required by TDCJ-CJAD
- Participate in the agency’s fundraising and awareness events when requested
Qualifications
- Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Counseling or relevant field
- Fully-licensed as LPC, LMSW, or LMFT
- Knowledge of domestic violence
- Counseling experience, battering intervention experience preferred
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Proficiency with PCs, including desktop publishing, databases, word-processing, and spreadsheets
- Willingness to operate in accordance with Texas BIPP Accreditation Guidelines and the Power & Control Duluth-based perspective of dynamics of domestic violence
- Appreciation of diversity and a sensitivity to people of varying lifestyles, ethnicity and religious groups
- Dependable transportation
- Ability to work flexible hours, manage stress and conflict well, and to adapt to ever-changing and challenging needs of multiple priorities and fluctuations in work load
