Youth Mental Health Therapist

Job Details

Job Location:

TCN Fairborn - Fairborn, OH 45324

Position Type:
Full Time

Travel Percentage:
None

Job Shift: Day

The Youth Mental Health Therapist will provide developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed, and evidence-based behavioral health services to children, adolescents, and their families. Primary responsibilities will include diagnostic assessment, individualized treatment planning, individual and family therapy, crisis intervention, care coordination, clinical documentation, and collaboration with schools, juvenile justice partners, caregivers, and other community providers.

This position may also be assigned responsibilities necessary to fulfill agency contracts with juvenile detention facilities. Contracted responsibilities may include:

• Providing telehealth consultation services to West Central Juvenile Detention Center approximately one time per month, or as consultations are requested and contractually required.
• Providing behavioral health services or consultation at Greene County Juvenile Detention Center approximately one time per week.
• Completing related clinical documentation, communication, consultation, and care coordination in accordance with contractual, agency, licensing, and regulatory requirements.

The Youth Mental Health Therapist must be comfortable providing services within both traditional outpatient and juvenile justice settings and must demonstrate an understanding of adolescent development, trauma, behavioral dysregulation, family systems, substance use risk, court involvement, and other complex needs commonly experienced by justice-involved youth.

• Complete comprehensive behavioral health assessments, diagnostic evaluations, risk assessments, and other clinical screenings within the therapist’s scope of practice.
• Develop individualized treatment plans that identify current symptoms, functional impairments, client and family strengths, measurable treatment goals, clinical interventions, and anticipated discharge or transition needs.
• Provide individual, family, and group psychotherapy to children and adolescents using developmentally appropriate and evidence-based interventions.
• Utilize trauma-informed, culturally responsive, strengths-based, and person-centered approaches to treatment.
• Address clinical needs that may include:
  • Depression and anxiety
  • Trauma-related symptoms
  • Emotional and behavioral dysregulation
  • Family conflict
  • School-related concerns
  • Anger and aggression
  • Grief and loss
  • Attachment disruptions
  • Self-esteem concerns
  • Substance use risk
  • Impulsivity
  • Juvenile justice involvement
  • Suicidal ideation, self-harm, or other safety concerns
• Conduct ongoing assessments of symptoms, functioning, safety, treatment progress, barriers, and continued clinical need.
• Provide crisis assessment, safety planning, stabilization, and referral to higher levels of care when clinically indicated.
• Engage parents, guardians, custodians, and other authorized supports in treatment when clinically appropriate and permitted by applicable confidentiality requirements.
• Coordinate care with psychiatrists, medical providers, case managers, schools, child welfare agencies, probation departments, courts, detention facilities, and other community partners.
• Facilitate appropriate referrals for psychiatric services, substance use treatment, psychological testing, case management, community support, crisis services, or other needed resources.

• Provide behavioral health consultation through telehealth approximately one time per month, based on contract expectations and identified consultation needs.
• Consult with authorized detention center personnel regarding behavioral health concerns, appropriate interventions, risk factors, treatment recommendations, and referral needs.
• Review available clinical information when authorized and clinically appropriate.
• Provide recommendations regarding mental health treatment, crisis response, behavior management, continuity of care, and community-based follow-up.
• Maintain clear professional boundaries and…