Mental Health Clinician 2 (PCN 064877)

State of Alaska•Anchorage, AK

5d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is open to Alaska Residents only. The Division of Juvenile Justice is recruiting to fill a Mental Health Clinician 2 position located in Anchorage at the McLaughlin Youth Center. This role provides a broad range of mental health counseling services to detained youth in a secure residential setting, long term treatment, and probation. The clinician is responsible for skilled and intensive psychotherapeutic casework for justice involved youth and families, ongoing clinical support, guidance, training, and collaboration with multidisciplinary staff at the McLaughlin Youth Center and in the south-central region to facilitate effective clinical interventions and treatment approaches for youth experiencing behavioral/mental health issues. The organization's mission is to hold juvenile offenders accountable for their behavior through Restorative Justice, promote the safety and restoration of victims and communities, and assist offenders and their families in developing the skills to prevent crime. Core values include prioritizing safety, responsiveness, professional relationships, dedication, and respect.

Requirements

Master’s degree from an accredited college in counseling, psychology, social work, child guidance, vocational rehabilitation, or a closely related field.
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities in Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.
Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.
Psychology: Knowledge of the concepts, principles, and theories of human behavior and performance in various contexts, mental processes, or the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental ailments, and career guidance.
Professional experience performing psychotherapeutic casework.

Nice To Haves

Conscientiousness: Displays a high level of effort and commitment towards performing work; demonstrates responsible behavior.
Decisiveness: Makes well-informed, effective, and timely decisions, even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; perceives the impact and implications of decisions.
Oral Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Responsibilities

Provides a broad range of mental health counseling services to detained youth in a secure residential setting, long term treatment, and probation
Provides skilled and intensive psychotherapeutic casework for justice involved youth and families
Is responsible for ongoing clinical support, guidance, training, and collaboration with multidisciplinary staff at the McLaughlin Youth Center and in the south-central region to facilitate effective clinical interventions and treatment approaches for youth experiencing behavioral/mental health issues