Child Mental Health Therapist Job at Kenneth Young Center
Child Mental Health Therapist
You are key to our vision: Together We Thrive. At Kenneth Young Center, our staff come together with volunteers, community partners, and the people we serve to create holistic systems of care through interwoven behavioral health programs, older adult services, and community health initiatives. Our team welcomes and celebrates unique perspectives, and represents the diversity and vitality of our local communities. This role helps realize our mission: We partner with communities to support people of all ages to navigate life's challenges through personalized prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery. Join our team to grow in your career while building stronger, healthier communities.
Job Scope: Join a diverse team of counselors and social workers providing mental health services in a collaborative and welcoming community outpatient setting. Gain supervised clinical experience, with opportunities for continuing education throughout the year. Engage clients in individual, group, and family therapy aimed at increasing supporting clients in creating a life worth living and functioning independently in the community. This team primarily serves children, adolescents, and young adult clients, but individual caseloads may also include adults. Specific client assignments are based on client preferences, clinical experience, interest and credentials.
Job Scope: Join a diverse team of counselors and social workers providing mental health services in a collaborative and welcoming community outpatient setting. Gain supervised clinical experience, with opportunities for continuing education throughout the year. Engage clients in individual, group, and family therapy aimed at increasing supporting clients in creating a life worth living and functioning independently in the community. This team primarily serves children, adolescents, and young adult clients, but individual caseloads may also include adults. Specific client assignments are based on client preferences, clinical experience, interest and credentials.
Proof of COVID-19 vaccination required. Accommodation for medical and religious exemption will be considered. Weekly testing required for approved vaccination exemptions
Primary Responsibilities
- Provide initial screenings and mental health assessments that identify service needs and recommend options for care
- Share assessment findings with clients and their families
- Involve client and their families in the development of treatment plan goals, objectives and interventions that address their assessed behavioral health needs
- Provide individual, family and group therapy services
- Provide case management services to assist clients and their families with access to needed benefits and services
- Provide coordinated care by initiating or participating in client centered consultation with other internal and external providers involved in care or services
- Reassess and review treatment progress with clients and their families at proscribed intervals
- Assist in establishing effective communication between the Center, other social agencies serving clients, and the community
Performance Requirements
- Work cooperatively with Child & Adolescent Services team members to assure clients timely access to quality services
- Meet agency quality and compliance standard by accurately completing clinical documentation and service reporting in a timely manner
- Meet or exceed service productivity target
- Implement evidenced based practices to ensure use of effective and efficient treatment that best address client needs
- Participation in Staff training and development seminars
- Working cooperatively with other Center teams and programs to maintain smooth continuity of care when cases are shared across teams
- Become familiar with and utilization of outside resources as needed to provide comprehensive services to clients
- Participate in clinical supervision with C&A supervisor and in regular performance appraisals as directed
Special Competencies
- Demonstrate knowledge of early childhood (3-5), children adolescent and young adult development and emotional disorders
- Demonstrate knowledge of Family Systems assessments, differential treatment approaches and interventions including intensive case management services
- Demonstrate knowledge of documentation standards and capacity to meet documentation expectations
- Provide treatment services within a Wraparound context involving multiple system planning and coordination
- Demonstrate knowledge of state mandated reporting laws
Clinical Competencies
- Has ability to effectively engage clients in care
- Has ability to diagnose mental health disorders
Education and Experience
- Master’s degree from an accredited college or University in Counseling, Social Work, Psychology or closely related discipline.
- Must have supervised experience in providing counseling and/or psychotherapy services
- Must demonstrate knowledge in the areas of diagnostic assessment, long and short term treatment, family systems theory and group treatment
- Must have basic computer and keyboarding skills
- Must have strong time management strategies
Schedule/Time Keeping/Time-Off
- Exempt, Full-Time, 37.5 hour work week
- Must work a flexible schedule in response to the needs of the target population served, including evening and Saturday hours.
Kenneth Young Center offers a robust benefit package that is highly competitive to the market. KYC offers all full-time employees the following:
- 403(b) plan with organizational matching
- Health Insurance (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois) including 2 options (HMO and limited network PPO) that are completely free to the employee with no employee paid premiums at the employee-only coverage level.
- Dental (BCBS), and Vision Insurance (UNUM) with low employee premiums
- Long Term and Short Term Disability (UNUM), no cost to employee
- Flexible Spending Account (with up to $550 annual rollover)
- Basic life insurance (50k) paid for by the organization and option for additional voluntary coverage for self, spouse, or dependents (UNUM)
- Clinical supervision for licensure and approximately 12-20 CEUs offered during regular work hours at no extra cost per year
- Work laptop provided
- Supportive supervisors and managers, opportunities to grow and develop
- Incentive program with potential for quarterly bonuses
- Option to "cash-out" up to one week of unused PTO at end of year, opportunity for annual bonus, and annual salary increase (discretionary based on annual KYC financial audit)
- Eligibility to participate in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)
To further promote an active and healthy work/life balance, KYC also offers a generous amount of paid time off and staff holidays.
- 8 Paid Organization-Wide Holidays (Juneteenth added for 2022)
- 3 Personal Floating Holidays annually
- 4 weeks of Paid Time Off (With increases based on seniority)
- Flexible schedule; 37.5 hour work week in a hybrid environment
- Kenneth Young Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer
- Kenneth Young Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Kenneth Young Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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