Behavior Health Therapist – Children and Adolescent

East Liberty Family Health Care Center•Pittsburgh, PA

About The Position

As a Behavioral Health Therapist specializing in children and adolescents at ELFHCC, you play a crucial role in providing comprehensive mental health services to individuals within this age group. Your primary responsibility will be to assess, diagnose, and treat a wide range of behavioral and emotional issues affecting children and adolescents, utilizing evidence-based therapeutic interventions.

Requirements

LCWS, LCP, LMFT Licensure
3 years experience post license.
Act 33/ 34 Child Clearances; Act 73 FBI Clearance
Experience 3yrs Child Adolescent
Ability to work traditional and non-traditional hours
Computer Literacy
Having empathy for working with adolescent children who suffer from trauma, and abuse and have been diagnosed with mental health concerns.
Experience working with the healthcare needs of underserved populations.
Excellent written and oral communication skills

Nice To Haves

Bilingual is preferred

Responsibilities

Provides 1:1 psychosocial counseling for ELFHCC patients.
Coordinates and plans programs and activities to meet the patient's social and emotional needs.
Collaborates with other members of ELFHCC's behavioral health to provide co-management activities for patients who require additional additional services.
Complete a psychosocial assessment that includes social, economic, cultural, and age-related factors, history of the child, elder, or domestic abuse, prior psychiatric or substance abuse treatment, and family and social support systems.
Develop and implement a comprehensive, interdisciplinary plan of care that includes patient's preferences.
Establishes a plan for regular contact with each patient to review progress and assess the potential for additional needs.
Maintain extensive knowledge of federal, state, and local assistance programs and community resources that affect patient's needs.
Comfort with telehealth visits.
Demonstrates expertise in accessing social systems by providing resource-specific information to patients and families, initiating contact with appropriate resources, and facilitating the patient/ family's ability to accept referrals.
Arrange, coordinate, and evaluate services to meet patient-specific healthcare needs.
Communicate with the patient's treating provider(s) when indicated.
Provides information to the member/family in a manner that supports and empowers self-management.
All other duties as assigned by the supervisor/manager.