Mental Health Clinician ; PCN

Mental Health Clinician 2 (PCN 064877) – Anchorage, AK

Open to Alaska Residents only. Check residency definition to determine eligibility.

Influence, inspire, and transform the lives of detained youth and their families through therapeutic programs incorporating restorative justice, trauma‑informed, and culturally aware approaches to community protection, youth accountability, and competency development.

• Provides a broad range of mental health counseling services to detained youth in a secure residential setting, long‑term treatment, and probation.
• Provides skilled and intensive psychotherapeutic casework for justice‑involved youth and families.
• Is responsible for ongoing clinical support, guidance, training, and collaboration with multidisciplinary staff at the McLaughlin Youth Center and in the south‑central region to facilitate effective clinical interventions and treatment approaches for youth experiencing behavioral/mental health issues.

Through Restorative Justice, we hold juvenile offenders accountable for their behavior; promote the safety and restoration of victims and communities; and assist offenders and their families in developing the skills to prevent crime.

• Prioritizing Safety – of our youth, staff, families, and communities
• Responsiveness – providing timely response to youth, families, victims, staff, and justice partners
• Professional Relationships – recognizing that successful treatment services provided to our clients, coworkers, victims, and others rely on positive, respectful, and collaborative relationships and a spirit of inclusiveness
• Dedication – doing the right things for the right reasons and modeling relentless integrity and leadership
• Respect – for the inherent value of each person’s unique strengths and individual differences

We provide cutting‑edge, evidence‑based behavioral health programs and mental health services to make meaningful change in youths’ lives. Opportunity to learn and grow professionally while serving Alaska’s youth and families. Our staff are dedicated to providing high‑quality services and we promote training and professional development.

You will work full‑time at the McLaughlin Youth Center (MYC) located at 2600 Providence Drive in Anchorage. Shift work is required, which may entail working 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm at least two nights per week and working one day on a weekend. Travel throughout the region may be required.

Master’s degree from an accredited college in counseling, psychology, social work, child guidance, vocational rehabilitation, or a closely related field.

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with knowledge, skills, and abilities in:

• Analysis and Assessment – Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.
• Decision Making – Makes sound, well‑informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Interpersonal Skills – Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.
• Psychology – Knowledge of the concepts, principles, and theories of human behavior and performance in various contexts, mental processes, or the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
• Therapy and Counseling – Knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental ailments, and career guidance.

Equivalent to those typically gained by professional experience performing psychotherapeutic casework.

• Conscientiousness – Displays a high level of effort and commitment towards performing work; demonstrates…