Child & Adolescent Therapist​/Medical Case Manager

Child & Adolescent Therapist/ Medical Case Manager

Kenneth Young Center is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit dedicated to providing comprehensive outpatient behavioral health services to individuals of all walks of life. Located in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, we offer a wide range of services including outpatient therapeutic care, recovery-oriented support, community prevention, LGBTQ+ outreach, older adult services, and crisis intervention. Our team welcomes and celebrates unique perspectives and represents the diversity and vitality of our local communities.

Join our team to grow in your career while building stronger, healthier communities.

Kenneth Young Center offers a robust benefit package that is highly competitive to the market and offers all full-time employees the following:

• 403(b) plan with organizational matching
• Medical Insurance (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois - BCBS)
• Dental (BCBS), and Vision Insurance (BCBS) with low employee premiums
• Long Term and Short Term Disability (BCBS), no cost to employee
• Flexible Spending Account (with annual rollover)
• Basic life insurance (50k) paid for by the organization and option for additional voluntary coverage for self, spouse, or dependents (BCBS)
• Incentive program with potential for quarterly bonuses
• Opportunity for annual bonus and salary increase (discretionary based on annual KYC financial audit)
• Eligibility to participate in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)

To further promote an active and healthy work/life balance, KYC also offers a generous amount of paid time off and staff holidays:

• 4 weeks of Paid Time Off (With increases based on seniority)
• 8 Paid Organization-Wide Holidays
• 3 Personal Floating Holidays annually

This role works cooperatively with a team of mental health professionals to provide outpatient therapy and medical case management to clients served by the Child & Adolescent Division. As a Child & Adolescent Therapist, provide individual, group, and family treatment that targets improvement in functional impairments. In collaboration with agency psychiatrists and medical secretary will deliver re-assessment and treatment planning services, brief individual crisis intervention or supportive counseling, symptom management skill building groups, and case management and/or community support individual to a primary population of children and their families.

Assists the client with receiving psychiatric medication only treatment services.

• Work as Primary Clinician for an identified caseload of clients receiving medication only services
  • Provide face-to-face mental health re-assessment, as needed, but at least every six months for medication only clients.
  • Provide treatment planning review and modification, as needed, but at least every 6 months for medication only clients.
  • Provide brief crisis intervention, stabilization services and supportive counseling to medication only clients.
  • Regularly consult with psychiatrists on specific client-related clinical issues.
• Provide outpatient individual, group, and family therapy service to identified clients served by the Child & Adolescent Services Team
  • Reassess and review treatment progress with clients and their families at prescribed intervals
  • Involve client and/or family in the development of treatment plan goals, objectives, and interventions that address their assessed behavioral health needs
  • Provide case management services to assist clients and their families with access to needed benefits and services
  • Provide coordinated care by initiating or participating in client-centered consultation with internal and external providers involved in care or services
• Provide back-up coverage for Medical Secretary
• Assist in establishing effective communication between the Center, other social agencies serving clients, and the Community

• Work cooperatively with Child & Adolescent Services team members to assure clients timely access to quality services
• Meet agency quality and compliance standard by accurately completing clinical documentation and service reporting in a timely manner
• Meet or exceed service productivity target
• Implement evidenced-based practices to ensure use of effective and efficient treatment that best address client needs
• Participation in staff training and development seminars
• Working cooperatively with other Center teams and programs to maintain smooth continuity of care when cases are shared across teams
• Become familiar with and utilize outside resources as needed to provide comprehensive services to clients
• Participate in clinical supervision with Supervisor of Child & Adolescent Services and in regular performance appraisals as directed
• Understand the different funding sources available to the population served and the requirements for billing each of the funding sources

• Masters degree from an accredited college or University in Social Work, Psychology or closely related discipline and be licensed or eligible for…