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+ GENERAL SUMMARY

+ The Mental Health Therapist (Master’s Level) is responsible for conducting mental health assessments and providing evidence-based therapies to patients and their families under the supervision of a licensed clinician. Reports to the Mental Health Therapy Manager.

+ ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

+ Conducts mental health evaluations to identify mental health symptoms and psychosocial stressors and/or supports to include chronic illness, trauma, disability, primary support group, educational experiences, social environment, legal system and other psychosocial or environmental factors.

+ Develops an individualized treatment plan to address identified diagnoses and symptoms.

+ Provides evidenced based therapies to children with mental health diagnoses and co-occurring acute or chronic illness, trauma, or disability.

+ Completes comprehensive evaluations for review by the broader treatment team (such as treating MD referral source).

+ Completes psychosocial evaluations, progress notes and individualized treatment plans in accordance with the established best practice and third party guidelines.

+ Evaluates children and adolescents at risk for harm to self or others in order to determine the appropriate level of care and facilitates admission to inpatient psychiatric facilities and/or referrals to other community mental health services, as appropriate.

+ Obtains outcome measures, through use of psychometric tools in order to track clinical trends and share data on patient progress with collaborating physicians.

+ Leads coordination efforts with patients' medical care providers in order to ensure seamless integration of medical and mental health care.

+ Runs evidence based groups as a co-facilitator.

+ May participate in on-call phone skills coaching as needed.

+ Performs other duties as assigned.

+ LICENSES AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

+ Must be in the process of working towards clinical hours of a current Virginia clinical license (Licensed Clinical Social Work or Licensed Professional Counselor).

+ MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

+ Graduate of an accredited college or university with a Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, Mental Health and/or related fields.

+ One to two years of related work experience preferred (including internship) and approval letter toward clinical supervision.

+ Experience with implementing evidence-based treatments with children and families in both individual and group treatment modalities preferred.

+ Exceptional interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills necessary.

+ Ability to work as a multidisciplinary team member.

+ Position may require occasional travel to offsite locations.

+ Increased Security Clearance Required for Job Role in Medical Tower II: FBI fingerprinting, criminal background check, and Child Protective Services registry search.

+ WORKING CONDITIONS

+ Normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature and the like.

+ PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

+ Click here to view physical requirements. (https://www.chkd.org/uploadedFiles/Documents/Employees/Category%20B%20Jobs.pdf )