Mental Health Professionals
About The Position
Provide intensive family-based services as a team member working with a behavioral health worker to help prevent out-of-home placement and improve family relationships. Services are delivered primarily in families’ homes and include individual, family, and group therapy; assessments; service coordination; and crisis prevention and intervention. Services should be delivered in ways convenient to families, including evenings and weekends. The role includes rotating 24/7 crisis coverage. The professional provides ongoing assessments and therapy using the eco-systemic structural family therapy model, collaborates with the assigned mental health worker and other systems involved with the youth and family, and consults regularly with a psychiatrist. The role also includes family skill building and role modeling, case management as needed, participation in required trainings and supervision practices, timely documentation, and assigned quality improvement and outcome measurement activities.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in social work, counseling, marriage and family, or psychology from an accredited college or university.
- Two years’ experience working with children and families.
Responsibilities
- Provide intensive family-based services with a behavioral health worker to help prevent out-of-home placement and improve family relationships.
- Provide initial and ongoing comprehensive assessments of identified families and youth.
- Provide individual, family, and group therapy using the eco-systemic structural family therapy model.
- Collaborate with the assigned mental health worker to provide comprehensive services and linkages.
- Provide 24/7 crisis coverage on a rotating basis.
- Deliver services at times convenient to families, including evenings and weekends.
- Consult regularly with a psychiatrist and attend psychiatric appointments with the youth and family.
- Collaborate regularly with all systems involved with the youth and family.
- Provide ongoing role modeling and skill building to families.
- Provide case management services as needed.
- Attend and participate in required eco-systemic family therapy trainings and required state and local trainings.
- Demonstrate commitment to learning and practicing the eco-systemic structural family therapy model by bringing videotaped sessions to supervision and using genograms, eco-maps, and structural maps.
- Complete documentation in a timely, comprehensive, and legible manner in accordance with Friendship House policies and procedures.
- Contribute to quality improvement and outcome measurement tracking and data gathering as assigned.
- Perform duties professionally in response to clients, co-workers, and situations in which personal values are challenged.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
