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Mental Health Therapist
Greenbelt, MarylandPosition Purpose:
The Mental Health Therapist is responsible for planning and providing evidence-based, therapeutic care for adolescents in out of home care who have histories of abuse, neglect and victimization through diverse relationship-based therapies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Physical Demands/Work Environment:
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required y this job require close vision working with a computer monitor. While performing the duties of this job, employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. While performing the responsibilities of the employee’s job, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the Human Resources Director will encounter. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Salary: $75,000 - $80,000
The Mental Health Therapist is responsible for planning and providing evidence-based, therapeutic care for adolescents in out of home care who have histories of abuse, neglect and victimization through diverse relationship-based therapies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides crisis and early intervention with youth struggling with pro-social behavior, adaptation, and acute mental health needs.
- Provides individual and group therapy as well as specialized victimization, offender and substance abuse treatment.
- Coordinates community providers for treatment and family involvement in treatment, when appropriate; facilitates joint sessions in individual therapy treatment, when appropriate
- Conducts detailed and comprehensive trauma assessment of individuals and their family system.
- Develops Individual Treatment Plans and Family Services Plans, ensuring that they occur within the first 30 days of admission and every 90 days thereafter.
- Co-facilitates Individualized Treatment Plan (ITP) meetings, ensuring that the treatment plan is reviewed and goals updated as needed within the first 30 days of admission and every 90 days thereafter.
- Develops and complete CANS within the first 30 days of admission and every 90 days thereafter.
- Prepares appropriate, timely and accurate documentation regarding the therapeutic treatment of residents, to include court reports and discharge summaries.
- Facilitates Emergency Case Reviews as needed.
- Provides crisis intervention services, including transporting and facilitating the hospitalization of resident.
- Writes resident discharge notice, discharge summary and quarterly court reports.
- Transports and attends court hearings with residents and presents information to court as needed.
- Provides referrals, follow up, coordination, and transportation to supplemental treatment services, (i.e. partial hospitalization, psychiatric rehabilitation, substance abuse treatment).
- Completes home visits in visiting and/or placement resource homes.
Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides training for child care staff on a variety of mental health issues.
- Serves as an advocate for residents’ identified needs.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Masters’ Degree in Social Work, Counseling, or Related Degree with a Maryland LGSW Licensure.
- Experience and knowledge in the areas of child victimization, offender treatment, crisis intervention and behavior management.
- Experience in individual, group and family therapy.
- Knowledge of child and adolescent development.
- Commitment to and understanding of the residential treatment milieu and relevant teamwork orientation.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal/conflict resolution skills.
- Demonstration of cross-cultural competencies.
- Willingness to lead and advocate in the best interest of the adolescent.
- An attitude compatible with the goals and purposes of the National Center for Children and Families.
Physical Demands/Work Environment:
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required y this job require close vision working with a computer monitor. While performing the duties of this job, employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. While performing the responsibilities of the employee’s job, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the Human Resources Director will encounter. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Salary: $75,000 - $80,000