Therapist/Clinician - Outpatient/School-Based
About The Position
The Therapist/Clinician provides assessment, counseling, education, and consultation for clients in outpatient and school-based settings. The role delivers individual, group, and family therapy to internal clients and community referrals; assists with comprehensive person-centered plans; and supports treatment and discharge planning, referrals, and continuity of care. The clinician also provides school-based therapy and consultative assistance to assigned school districts, communicates with families and partner agencies, and participates in child and family team meetings as needed. The position supports clinical programming through psychoeducational activities, workshops, treatment protocols, evidence-based and best-practice approaches, staff training, and quality improvement. Responsibilities include maintaining a caseload of 50 or more clients, delivering 24–34 billable events weekly, participating in emergency on-call consultation rotation, and completing service documentation within 24 hours. The clinician collaborates with clinical leadership and staff, attends supervision and learning forums, and performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of full-time, direct-service experience, including face-to-face treatment and interventions.
- Experience providing services to a caseload of individuals with a primary mental health or substance abuse disorder diagnosis.
- Provisional candidates may be considered if supervision is included.
- Employment is contingent on satisfactory background check and drug screening.
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical assessments, counseling, education, and consultation based on referral information.
- Assist in developing comprehensive person-centered plans (PCPs).
- Provide individual, group, and family therapy to internal clients and community referrals.
- Provide treatment planning, discharge planning, timely assessments, and referrals to basic or enhanced services as appropriate.
- Provide therapy in a school setting.
- Attend child and family team meetings as needed to address clinical issues.
- Develop collaborative relationships with agencies, providers, and policymakers to support continuity of care.
- Conduct educational workshops for internal clients and community referrals.
- Learn, use, and teach cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-informed therapies.
- Support clients' progress through individual and family therapy.
- Collaborate with the clinical director, medical director, quality improvement director, and key clinical staff to ensure clinical expertise is available across the organization.
- Write clinical justifications for continued service authorization.
- Maintain a caseload of 50 or more clients and provide 24–34 billable events per week.
- Provide consultative assistance to an assigned local education agency or school district, including training and/or therapy.
- Communicate with legal guardians, DSS, parents, DJJ, and other relevant parties.
- Assist with planning and implementing daily psychoeducational activities with staff.
- Help maintain quality-of-care standards for clinical programming.
- Participate in the rotation of clinical consultation for emergency on-call situations.
- Assist in designing and supporting implementation of treatment protocols used in service delivery.
- Ensure fidelity to service models and service quality; identify and implement evidence-based or best-practice protocols as appropriate.
- Ensure appropriate and timely documentation of services, including completing service notes within 24 hours of each event.
- Provide training as assigned by the clinical director and assist with plans and protocols for training and supervising new clinical and program staff.
- Attend weekly, monthly, and quarterly clinical supervision with the clinical director.
- Attend assigned clinical learning forums.
- Participate in the quality improvement program, including health and safety.
- Communicate and provide feedback effectively within a team dynamic.
- Maintain professionalism in client and coworker relationships.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
