Therapist

BrightSpring Health Services•Charleston, WV

19h•Hybrid

About The Position

StepStone Family & Youth Services provides trauma-informed, youth-centered services to children and families with complex emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs. The Therapist provides individualized clinical services that promote healing, emotional well-being, stability, and positive outcomes for youth and families. The role uses trauma-informed, strengths-based, and family-centered practices and involves building relationships, collaborating, advocating, and providing individualized therapeutic support to youth who have experienced trauma and other significant life challenges. The Therapist completes clinical assessments, develops individualized treatment plans, provides individual, family, and/or group therapy, delivers crisis intervention and ongoing therapeutic support, and maintains accurate and timely clinical documentation. The role collaborates with youth, families, case managers, foster families, schools, community providers, and multidisciplinary treatment teams to coordinate services responsive to each person's needs. Therapy sessions will primarily occur outside school hours unless otherwise indicated by the youth's treatment plan. The position follows a hybrid work structure, with work performed remotely at home or in the community and from the office according to task demands; office work is encouraged for tasks requiring substantial collaboration.

Requirements

Possess a working knowledge and understanding of culture and its function in human behavior and society.
Deliver services that are sensitive to clients' cultures.
Foster mutually respectful partnerships with persons served and their families, helping them gain skills and confidence to address identified issues.
Partner effectively with other team members.
Believe in people's capacity to grow and change.
Set appropriate boundaries, maintain a helping role, and intervene appropriately to meet the needs of the persons served or their families.
Have a master's degree in psychology, social work, or counseling.
Have one year of experience in child welfare services.
Hold a valid professional master's-level, provisional, or full license in social work, therapy, or counseling.

Responsibilities

Conduct initial mental health assessments.
Provide individual, family, and/or group therapy sessions as determined by the treatment plan, and document sessions according to best-practice documentation and regulatory requirements.
Maintain electronic records to meet regulatory management standards; document client meetings and progress toward treatment goals; and comply with confidentiality and ethical standards.
Develop individualized treatment plans based on client needs and goals.
Use evidence-based, trauma-informed therapeutic techniques, including trauma therapies, TF-CBT, EMDR, cognitive behavioral techniques, solution-focused techniques, and other modalities needed to help clients meet their goals.
Participate as a member of the child and family team.
Provide consultation to non-clinical team members when appropriate.
Follow company policy when receiving a subpoena for records and/or court appearances.
Work in consultation with, and report concerns to, the State Executive Director and/or Statewide Treatment Director.
Maintain attendance as an essential function of the job.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned.