Mobile Therapist

Northern Children's Services • Philadelphia, PA

4h

About The Position

Northern Children’s Services is hiring part-time Mobile Therapists to provide intensive psychotherapy to children and families in settings outside a provider agency or office. Services commonly take place in the child’s home or school and may also be provided in community centers, neighbors’ or extended family members’ homes, and other community settings. Treatment is individualized and includes the child as a participant, with parents and other caretakers involved as members of the treatment team.

The Mobile Therapist provides child-centered, evidence-based, family-focused, strength-based individual and family psychotherapy; supports adaptive skills and relationships; responds to crises; and coordinates treatment with families and other professionals. The role includes maintaining timely clinical and billing documentation, helping develop and update treatment plans and daily routines, coordinating necessary support services, and assessing the strengths and therapeutic needs of children and families. The position involves some flexible scheduling, including evening and weekend hours, and work in community-based settings.

Northern Children’s Services describes its workplace values as Excellence, Respect, Resilience, Cultural Humility & Justice, Healing, and Wellness. The organization emphasizes a trauma-informed environment rooted in safety, nonviolence, and resilience, using empathy, effective communication, awareness of trauma’s effects, and person-first, strengths-based language. It is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and to evaluating reasonable accommodations on a case-by-case basis.

Requirements

• Meet at least one of the following qualification pathways, in addition to the experience and systems-familiarity requirements: a master’s degree from an accredited university in a clinical mental health discipline and a completed clinical or mental health practicum; BCBA certification or behavioral analysis certification; a graduate degree in Applied Behavioral Analysis; or Licensed BSC.
• At least one year of full-time paid experience in the mental health field.
• Excellent working knowledge of clinical issues relating to children, adolescents, and families.
• Familiarity with multiple child-serving systems, such as education, juvenile justice, child welfare, mental health, drug and alcohol, health care, and vocational rehabilitation.
• Ability to walk up and down stairs.
• Ability to lift 20 pounds.
• Ability to operate a computer, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle or access public transportation.
• Ability to work some flexible schedules, including evening and weekend hours.

Responsibilities

• Promote the development of children’s adaptive skills and relationships.
• Be available for crisis intervention and collaborate with children, families, and involved professionals to develop crisis plans, which may include behavioral contracts and lists of community and therapeutic resources.
• Maintain contact with treatment-team members and assist with implementing treatment plans.
• Help develop daily routines that support the treatment approach in the treatment plan, including routines that support medication adherence and psychiatric appointments when medication compliance is an issue.
• Provide child-centered, evidence-based, family-focused, strength-based individual and family psychotherapy addressing the problem areas in the treatment plan.
• Promote unified services and continuity of care for children and families.
• Coordinate the overall clinical direction of treatment and work with families and involved professionals to determine necessary support services and how families can obtain them.
• Participate in clinical consultation, supervision, and staff training as required.
• Assess the strengths and therapeutic needs of children and families through active listening, questions, and information exchange.
• Maintain progress notes for every billable and nonbillable contact.
• Submit progress notes within 72 hours of service and other billing or encounter documentation weekly to the Clinical Manager for review and submission.
• Document collateral contacts with families and other entities involved in client treatment in progress notes.
• Review and update the treatment plan as needed at least every six months when the MTLC creates the initial plan, and update it after significant events such as hospitalization.

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), offering confidential referral and counseling services for employees and their families, including support for stress management, legal and financial concerns, depression, and substance abuse.

What This Job Offers

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