Mental Health Technician
FRIENDSHIP HOUSE•Carbondale, PA
•$20 - $24
About The Position
The Mental Health Technician works as a team member with a therapist to provide intensive family-based services, primarily in the family’s home. Services include assessments, service coordination and linkages, crisis intervention and prevention, educational and daily living skills, collaboration with systems involved with the youth and family, and assistance with individual, family, and group therapy. The role includes rotating 24/7 crisis coverage and service provision during evenings and weekends to accommodate families.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in social work, counseling, marriage and family, or psychology from an accredited college or university.
- One year of experience working with children and families.
Responsibilities
- Provide initial and ongoing comprehensive assessments of identified families and youth.
- Assist the therapist in providing individual, family, and group therapy to identified families.
- Work collaboratively with the assigned therapist 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 to youth and families.
- Develop and implement socialization and daily living skills training and activities for the youth and family.
- Provide case management services and linkages to needed services for the youth and family.
- Attend and participate in required eco-systemic family therapy training and required state and local training.
- Demonstrate commitment to learning the eco-systemic structural family therapy model, including bringing videotaped sessions to supervision and learning genograms, eco-maps, and structural maps.
- Complete documentation in a timely, comprehensive, and legible manner.
- 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
Career Level
Entry Level
