Advanced Clinical Therapist - Child Protection Center (Cover Letter Requested)

Responsible for independent clinical practice, providing individual, family, and/or group psychotherapy with children, youths, and their parents; crisis counseling to maltreated children and youth or those exposed to domestic violence or maltreated children and youth, and provides trauma-specific therapeutic services to children exposed to domestic violence and their non-offending parent survivor of domestic violence, and youth with problematic sexual behaviors and adolescents with histories of sexual offending behavior, as part of the multidisciplinary child protection team. Provides evaluation and assessment of children/adolescents mental health needs including psychiatric diagnoses and treatment recommendations. Provides referrals for services as indicated. Provides collaborative consultation to the attending psychologist regarding the child/adolescent functioning and progress.

Cover letters are requested by the hiring manager for further consideration.

• Provides crisis stabilization and crisis management.

• Form therapeutic alliance with patients from a variety of diverse backgrounds.

• Uses a variety of therapeutic tools and evidence based treatment modalities.

• Monitors and provides feedback to treatment team psychiatrist on any reported impacts of psychotropic medication on patient's functioning and mental status.

• Completes required electronic documentation in a clear, concise, and timely manner.

• Continuously updates professional knowledge of current treatment techniques and research through attendance at seminars, continuing education courses, workshops, etc.

• Educates staff about psychosocial issues impacting patient.

• Utilizes a theoretical framework for the focus of the family intervention.

• Encourage positive communication among family members.

• Recognizes progress and obstacles towards treatment goals and appropriately intervenes.

• Completes required documents of the assessment in a clear, concise, and timely manner.

• Remains knowledgeable about community resources/ placements for children and families to assist in the attainment of treatment goals.

• Communicates with outside agencies on the behalf of the patient to ensure continuity of care and treatment progress.

• Provides crisis intervention skills to highly distressed children and families.

• Utilizes a theoretical framework for the workings of the group.

• Screens potential group members for appropriateness of group therapy.

• Assesses for safety.

• Expresses the goals of the group.

• Recognizes individual's progress and obstacles towards treatment goals in the group setting and appropriately intervenes.

• Maintains knowledge of and shares information on community resources/supports for children and families that assists in the attainment of the treatment goals.

• Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met

• Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior

• Partner with all team members to achieve goals

• Receptive to others' ideas and opinions

• Contribute to a positive work environment

• Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change

• Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes

• Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment

• Use resources efficiently

• Search for less costly ways of doing things

• Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance

• Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation

• Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation

• Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication

• Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers

• Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance