Bilingual Mental Health Therapist II - License

Position: Bilingual Mental Health Therapist II - License Preferred
Well Power envisions a community where every person's mental health is fostered through strength, resilience and hope. We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

Our Guiding Principles:

* Person Centered. We honor people's identities, lived experience and journeys and treat every person with the dignity we all deserve.

* Exceptional Care. We offer compassionate, innovative services that meet people where they are, from immediate support to long-term recovery.

* Integrity. We operate from a deep foundation of ethical, accountable practices in all we do.

* Organizational Resilience. We meet the moment and adapt to changing contexts with collaborative creativity, agile business processes, and financial stewardship.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The position provides outpatient therapy across the lifespan to children, youth, adults, couples, and families. These services are uniquely tailored to the needs of each individual or family being served. This position provides a wide range of interventions that include (but are not limited to): diagnostic mental health assessments; individual, family, play, couples, and group psychotherapy; connection to case management support and psychiatric services;

crisis intervention; coordination and ongoing communication with appropriate collaterals. The individuals and families we work with present with a broad range of bio-psycho-social and mental health needs including trauma, depression, anxiety, attachment, family dynamics, and substance use, among others. This position is also responsible for maintaining compliance with documentation standards for all work performed.

ABOUT EL CENTRO:
El Centro is a multicultural group of providers and supportive staff who offer Spanish/English bilingual integrated outpatient services across the lifespan, ages 5 years and up. We bring a trauma-informed, strengths-based, relational, and culturally responsive lens to our work with families from Latino/a/x, Hispanic, and Chicano/a/x communities. Common themes we explore are migration and immigration, acculturation, grief and loss, intergenerational trauma, interpersonal violence, navigating systemic and structural barriers, and experiences of environmental stressors.

Location:

3401 Eudora St, Denver

Pay Range & Benefits:

Mental Health Therapist II (Master's) - $31.25/hr

LPC/LMFT/LCSW - $34.78/hr - $36.28/hr

Language Differential - $1/hr - $2.50/hr

Responsibilities & Duties:

* Provide diagnostic mental health assessments as well as individual, family, play, couple, and/or group psychotherapy along with crisis intervention and case management support to assigned individual/ family.

* Develop treatment plans; monitor treatment progress and follow-up as clinically indicated.

* Facilitate the individual and/or family's growth and development with an emphasis on strengths, culture, resiliency, and wellbeing.

* Collaborate with internal and external partners to support the growth and development of those we serve.

* Facilitate the coordination of services for individuals/ families with supplemental needs in psychiatric, case management, and medical domains.

* Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation consistent with Well Power standards.

* Participate in team/department meetings, trainings, and supervisory sessions as required.

* Maintain a trauma informed environment of wellbeing.

* Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Qualifications:

* Master's degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or other human services field required.

* Licensed or within 6 months of licensure preferred

* 1 to 2 years of experience in mental health or human services preferred.

* Bilingual English & Spanish required.

TYPICAL PHYSICAL & MENTAL DEMANDS:

* Ability to sit, stand, bend and reach, drive, operate standard office equipment such as phone, computer, facsimile, copier/printer, and other business machines. Occasional lifting up to 40 lbs.

* Ability to give, receive and analyze information, formulate work plans, prepare written materials and articulate goals and action plans. Must understand people from different backgrounds and be able to communicate effectively with them.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

40 hours per week - The team currently works a hybrid schedule with most full-time team members working at least 3 days per week in person. In-person work is based out of Well Power's Dahlia Campus for Health and Wellbeing location, 3401 Eudora St, Denver, CO 80207 and office-based co-locations at community partner sites.

Learn more about Well Power:

Well Power is committed to fair and equitable hiring with salaries based on relevant factors, such as work experience, education, and certification/licensure (rather than wage history). Toward the principle of equal pay for equal work, we post and hire within defined hiring salary ranges. We ask all applicants to carefully review the hiring salary range for each posted job opportunity, as we will not hire…