Purpose: 

You will provide outpatient mental health services, in Family Resource Elementary Schools, to support a family’s capacity to raise healthy, well-functioning, and successful children. You will collaborate with and provide consultation to school personnel.

Job Summary: 

You will provide mental health counseling services that reflect, and are sensitive to, diverse cultural, ethnic, and economic needs for individual children and families in elementary school and pre-school settings.

You Will:

• Work collaboratively with schools and other pertinent staff/providers to provide mental health assessments of students and families, appropriately and accurately diagnosis clients, and develop treatment plans
• Provide consultation with parents of enrolled clients regarding their student’s need for mental health counseling or the status of their student’s current mental health counseling
• Be guided by 27-65 requirements and best clinical practices, provide individual, group, and family psychotherapy
• Collaborate with the Family Resource Schools program including working collaboratively with the Family Outreach Coordinator
• Monitor and track the developmental stages of young children
• Consult with school staff, in accordance with signed authorizations to disclose information, on students currently receiving counseling services through the FRS program to assist them in supporting the needs of specific students
• Provide crisis intervention for enrolled children who are actively receiving counseling services through the FRS program
• Provide a variety of case management services, including writing letters and making phone calls, to relevant parties (i.e. DSS, teachers, schools)
• Provide referrals to Mental Health Partners and outside agencies as appropriate
• Participate in team meetings to staff cases and communicate administrative information
• Act as written or oral interpreter/translator as needed for MHP clients, parents, etc.
• Attend school meetings to include: parent/teacher conferences, school assemblies, special ed staffing, Back to School night, etc.
• Maintain up-to-date clinical records on assigned clients
• Document provision of services, assessments, evaluations and treatment goals and plan consistent with clinical and administrative policies and procedures
• Meet defined individual and department goals, activity metrics and Key Performance Indicators
• Promote, support and demonstrate MHP’s mission, vision and values through both behavior and job performance and adheres to policies, procedures, Compliance Plan and Standards of Conduct on a day to day basis
• Other duties as assigned

What’s in it for you:

• Comprehensive Benefits:
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • FSA/HAS
  • Life and disability
  • Accident/hospital plans
  • Retirement with employer contributions
• PTO and flexible schedules
• Dedication to Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and integrated healthcare
• Open communication with leadership and mission-focused engagement
• Training and growth opportunities with a supportive team invested in your success

Mental Health Partners offers a diverse, quality work environment, a great compensation package and a comprehensive benefits package. Our benefits include paid time-off policy (paid holidays, paid vacation and paid personal days-off), medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, and percentage match-up retirement contribution. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

As a condition of employment, you will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccination (and any subsequent boosters) and the annual influenza vaccine. Medical exemptions or religious accommodations may be requested. 

What We Need:

Therapist I:

• Masters in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or related field plus 1+ year internship
• Up to 1 year prior experience in a clinical setting
• Must be license eligible and actively working toward licensure (Licensed PhD or PsyD, Licensed Clinical Social worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), or Licensed Marriage/Family Therapist (LMFT)

Therapist II:

• Masters in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or related field plus 1+ year internship and 3+ years prior experience in a clinical setting OR: Related PhD or PsyD plus zero to three years prior experience in a clinical setting
• Licensed PhD or PsyD, Licensed Clinical Social worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), or Licensed Marriage/Family Therapist (LMFT) required 

Fluency in both English and Spanish is required, with the ability to communicate professionally in both written and spoken forms.

This position will be posted, at minimum, until December 25th and may remain open until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected.