MAT Assessor Therapist

Counseling4Kids • Torrance, CA

11d • Hybrid

About The Position

Counseling 4 Kids is a community mental health agency committed to quality care and client engagement. We believe every child deserves compassionate support and effective treatment. We prioritize our clients and foster a dynamic environment where innovation, teamwork, and resilience flourish. We are seeking passionate mental health professionals for the MAT Assessor role to impact the lives of children and families. This role offers the chance to profoundly impact the lives of children and families in our community. If you are passionate about transforming lives, driving innovation, and upholding the highest standards of care, Counseling4Kids is the place for you.

Requirements

• Master’s degree required in Clinical Psychology, Marriage & Family Therapy or Counseling.
• Current Registration with California Board of Behavioral Sciences as an APCC, ASW, or AMFT.
• Experience providing mental health services requiring diagnostic evaluation, treatment planning and crisis intervention, as well as providing the various modalities of therapy.
• Experience, training, and/or strong interest in working with clients ages birth to five presenting with symptoms of trauma and/or disruptive behaviors.
• Strong commitment to children and families, and a willingness to take the steps necessary to assure their well-being.
• Valid California Driver’s license, with all copies of current certification (including auto insurance) provided to agency.
• Have access to HIPAA compliant transportation, and ability to travel to the school of clients in service area 2, 8, and/or Santa Clarita (as applicable) during clinical hours of operation five (5) days per work week.

Nice To Haves

• Licensed as an LMFT, LCSW, or LPCC with current, unrestricted registration with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS).
• Knowledge of the L.A. County Department of Mental Health system.
• MAT Trainings: DC: 0-5 and ICARE, Other core B-5 trainings
• Training/Certification/Rostered in Parent-Child Interaction Therapist and/or Child-Parent Psychotherapy.
• Working towards endorsement as an Infant Family Early Childhood Mental Health Specialists
• Ability to document in a clear and concise manner and in accordance with DMH and other program standards using EXYM
• 1+ years of previous experience working with children and families.
• 1+ year or more previous experience working with Birth to Five population.
• Bilingual English/Spanish

Responsibilities

• Uphold the mission and core values of Counseling4Kids.
• Maintain service delivery requirements that enable them to provide 1172 hours of annual billable services.
• Maintain caseload to ensure 24 hours of billable services of care per week.
• Conduct outreach services to facilitate the development of their caseload when caseload does not permit them to meet 24 hours of billable services of care per week.
• Provides evidenced based interventions and/or MAT based on DMH and C4K guidelines.
• Provides a clinical, trauma and developmentally informed lens to understand the strengths, underlying needs, and goals of the child and family throughout the process of dependency investigation and case planning.
• Participates in each component of the Child and Family Team process (e.g. staff engagement, family engagement, CFTM, debrief).
• Conducts an age appropriate mental health services assessment.
• Provides supportive Specialty Mental Health Services (SMHS) as clinically appropriate.
• Facilitates initiation of referrals and/or linkages as soon as the need for such services is identified.
• Utilizes assessment documents and tools (e.g. ASQ, CANS) to gather and organize information.
• Completes Intensive Care Coordination (ICC) to develop and guide service delivery to meet the underlying needs of the child/youth.
• Completes MAT Summary of Finding (SOF) report and directly communicates findings within a multi agency meeting.
• Helps the child/youth, family, and other team members understand the impact of trauma.
• Documents all billable activities to the pertinent funding sources through the use of the appropriate billing codes.
• Works collaboratively with clients and the clinical team to develop a comprehensive assessment, treatment plan and desired treatment outcomes.
• Engage in on-duty crisis management, including phone referral assessments.
• Maintains clients’ records related to assessment, treatment, progress toward goals and objectives, discharge summary, and treatment outcomes that are accurate, concise, timely, and useful for coordinating treatment team planning, monitoring, and review.
• Participates in treatment team meetings and makes recommendations as appropriate.
• Attends in-person individual and group supervision at least once a week in the staff member’s home office.
• Ability to be in-office five (5) full eight (8) hour days per week during clinical hours and days (M-F) of operation.
• Seeks guidance and remains knowledgeable of, and complies with, all applicable federal and state laws, as well as company policies that apply to assigned duties.
• Complies with the company’s and Board of Behavioral Sciences’ (BBS) expectations regarding ethical behavior and standards of conduct.

Benefits

• Resilience is valued.
• Supportive and inclusive atmosphere.
• Opportunity to obtain training, experience, and supervision required for endorsement as an Infant-Family Early Childhood Mental Health Professional.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level