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Job Summary: The Mental Health Therapist is responsible for providing counseling services as well as social skills, academic, and behavioral support to clients on an individual and group level.
Responsibilities:
- Provide counseling services including individual and educational group sessions.
- Complete individual and family assessments to allow for accurate identification of treatment goals.
- Complete a Treatment Plan for each client within 30 days of admission that contains behaviorally defined treatment goals focused on socially significant issues in the clients and family’s life.
- Collaborates with clients to develop plans to positively manage and respond to issues; assists clients with replacing unhealthy or dysfunctional behaviors with healthy choices.
- Complete all required reports thoroughly, accurately, and on time.
- Provide appropriate treatment modalities based on the culture of the family.
- Enhance and develop social skills for individual clients based on the expectations of
the environments they are functioning in.
- Meet with Clinical Director weekly for supervision of all families on caseload—with all paperwork current and completed.
- Maintain the required number of billable hours per week as required by this position.
- Model the appropriate use of positive reinforcement across all environments with clients, families, and co-workers.
- Assist in strengthening parent-child interactions through parent education and the development of positive parenting skills.
- Attend regular staff meetings, clinical staffing, in-service training, and other meetings as required.
- Maintain a dependable, punctual work schedule appropriate to the needs of the program.
- Work well independently and self-initiate job responsibilities as required.
- Ensure all required training courses are kept current.
- Participate in continuing education and share knowledge with other team members.
- Keep supervisor fully informed of activities, pertinent issues, and upcoming events.
- Adhere to established safety procedures and practices in the work area.
- Maintains compliance with ethical codes and standards.
Physical Responsibilities:
1. The ability to operate an automobile. Prolonged periods of sitting and working on a computer.
2. The ability to drive to other locations as needed:
a. Main office located in Jensen Beach.
b. Remote office located in Okeechobee.
c. Counties Served: Martin, Okeechobee, St Lucie, Indian River
3. The ability to verbally communicate with students and co-workers.
Equipment Used
Computer, laptop, fax/copy/scan machine.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in psychology, Social Work, or Mental Health Counseling.
- Experience in either:
· the practice of Applied Behavior Analysis.
· the field of mental health.
· the field of education.
· Preferred current state license in Counseling/Therapy.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Proficient in Microsoft Office 365.
- Excellent people’s skills organized and dependable.
- Demonstrates creative critical thinking skills.
- Experience working with culturally diverse communities/families, with proven ability to be culturally sensitive and proper.
- Works well independently.
- Ability to make sound judgments and manage stressful situations.
- Ability to effectively teach and counsel with students.
- Ability to remain calm and reassuring in tense situations and to de-escalate arguments.
- Superior verbal and written communication skills.
- Compassionate and empathetic with a strong ability to establish and build trust.
- Excellent listening skills.
- Must have a valid driver’s license and clean driving record.
- Thorough understanding of human behavior, various behavioral and affective disorders, and the diagnosis treatment, and rehabilitation of these disorders.
About Helping People Succeed, Inc.
Looking to help others succeed? Consider joining our team of dedicated staff! Helping People Succeed is a great place to work. Our staff work together to provide the best services possible to members of our community. Helping People Succeed is a performance based and family friendly workplace, offering flexible work schedules to meet the work-life balance of our staff and our participants. Our employees work hard, and we give every effort to help our employees take care of themselves while helping others.
We are a diverse organization providing services to children, youth, and adults with various needs. It takes a special person with a true desire to be in service to others to work here. We have 22 different program areas ranging in services from infants and children to adults and to the families of all of the people we serve. We are always striving to identify and meet the needs of members of our community. If you meet the position qualifications for an open position and you have the desire and dedication to help others in need—we hope you will consider making Helping People Succeed your new work-home.