Part-Time Therapist

La Rabida Children's Hospital • Chicago, IL

1d

About The Position

SUMMARY: Functions in an independent and professional manner to provide high-quality behavioral health services to outpatient clients and their families.

Requirements

• MS required, LCSW/Psy.D/Ph.D. in IL preferred
• Professional experience in delivering behavioral health care to children and adolescents.
• Active LCSW license in good standing with the State of Illinois
• CPR required: Only certifications issued by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross will be accepted.
• Covid 19 and Flu vaccination required
• Attendance: Monday through Friday - Telehealth, Saturday availability in person

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with children on a multidisciplinary team, experience with trauma informed care, chronically ill children are highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provides short term and long term evidence based behavioral health services to patients and their families, including individual, family and group therapy.
• Provides care for patients with presenting symptoms such as behavioral problems, school, work and learning problems, attention problems, anxiety, depression, as well as others.
• Has training in and can implement behavioral health interventions such as individual psychotherapy, behavior modification techniques, family therapy, group therapy and crisis intervention.
• Expectations are a minimum of 80% of time is spent providing therapy. The expectation is that16 therapy sessions scheduled per week and 100% of notes are completed within 24 hours of session.
• Conducts clinical intake assessments and appropriate diagnosis.
• Issues and scores scales and measures to evaluated functioning and for diagnostic clarification
• Provides cases management and advocacy
• Consults and collaborates with the multidisciplinary health care team to ensure services are integrated into patient’s treatment.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Actively participates in reflective supervision weekly
• Documents sessions and clinical activities within 24 hours of contact
• Attends department meetings and presents cases for review
• Collaborates with internal and external providers to promote comprehensive care
• Works with diverse client base
• Interfaces and collaborates with hospital multidisciplinary team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees