The Portage County Health & Human Services department is hiring a full-time Mental Health Clinician to join their team!
Pay range starts at $34.49 / hr
Summary of Position
This position provides in-home psychotherapeutic services to children and adolescents experiencing significant mental health, behavioral, and/or emotional concern. Collaborating with colleagues to provide support to families and/or current placement resources to assist in placement stability and promote placement permanency for youth with high acuity needs.
What are the primary job responsibilities?
Provides Direct Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services in the home, or current placement resource to children and adolescents experiencing significant mental health, behavioral, and/or emotional concerns.
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Pay range starts at $34.49 / hr
Summary of Position
This position provides in-home psychotherapeutic services to children and adolescents experiencing significant mental health, behavioral, and/or emotional concern. Collaborating with colleagues to provide support to families and/or current placement resources to assist in placement stability and promote placement permanency for youth with high acuity needs.
What are the primary job responsibilities?
Provides Direct Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services in the home, or current placement resource to children and adolescents experiencing significant mental health, behavioral, and/or emotional concerns.
- Interviews and develops clinical assessment of problem areas of mental health for high acuity children/adolescents.
- Develops therapeutic goals and treatment plan with appropriate review.
- Provide parenting/guardian support and/or current placement recourse.
- Provides crisis intervention services to clients in person, or on the telephone.
- Responsible for planning of sessions and organization of scheduling.
- Prepares and presents cases and participates in clinical staff meetings.
- Obtains confidential background and historical psychosocial information from agencies and institutions having relevant knowledge of the client.
- Refers clients to other agencies or institutions providing relevant primary or auxiliary health, education, vocational, rehabilitative, or social services.
- Completes forms and necessary evaluative reports in a timely fashion and maintains confidential client treatment records in proper order.
- Completes all logs and paperwork in a timely manner.
- Graduation from an accredited university program with a Clinical Master's degree in Social Work or related field required.
- 3,000 hours of supervised experience in a similar clinic setting required.
- Certification or eligibility for State certification as a Master's Degree Clinical Practitioner required.
- Substance Abuse Counselor Certification or eligibility preferred
- Vacation - available on day one!
- Health insurance- your choice of two health plans- (Health Savings Account associated with a High Deductible Health Plan with a County contribution or a PPO Co-pay plan)
- Health insurance starting at $19.15 a paycheck!
- Wellness incentive plan offered with health insurance enrollment! Earn up to $600 per year!
- Flexible spending account
- Dental insurance
- State of Wisconsin Retirement Plan - County contribution of 6.80%!
- Paid holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Life insurance- premium paid by the County (must work a minimum of 30 hrs/wk)
- Long term disability insurance- premium paid by the County (must work a minimum of 30 hrs/wk)
- EAP (Employee Assistance Plan) - paid by the County
- 457(b) Deferred Compensation Plan
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