Group Facilitator

Purpose: To provide therapeutic, psycho-educational, and support group services to survivors and their families. Groups are designed to serve varied populations including female and male survivors, adolescents, children, couples, and their families.

Major Responsibilities:

• Attending to, describing, acknowledging, confronting, understanding, and responding empathically to group members behavior, statements, and themes
• Maintaining group focus
• Giving and receiving feedback in group setting
• Eliciting information from and imparting information to group members
• Attend monthly clinical group supervision

Qualifications:

• Male or female licensed professionals and/or students currently enrolled in graduate program in counselor education, social work, psychology, or other closely related disciplines
• Masters-level social workers, psychologists, and counselors
• Reliable, dependable, and self-confident about handling stressful situations
• Must attend STSM Group Facilitator Training
• Must have reliable transportation

Benefits:

• Develop clinical skills under the supervision of a Licensed Professional Counselor
• Professional Development and Continuing Education opportunities
• Learrning of the Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model and the implementation of such model with survivors of sexual assault and abuse
• Furtherance of career goals
• Sense of accomplishment in knowing that you have helped others, your community, and an important cause
• Networking with other agencies
• Experience of working at a non-profit agency