Mental Health Therapist – CCS

POSITION SUMMARY:

This position provides professional recovery focused mental health and substance use treatment services to Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) recipients and their families in a wraparound team model. This role offers the opportunity to build strong therapeutic relationships, empower individuals to achieve their goals, and collaborate with a dedicated team of professionals who share your commitment to holistic care. Responsibilities may include therapeutic interventions, assessments, referrals, crisis planning, and collaborative service planning to promote development and recovery within a natural environment.

This position does not require availability on weekends, on-call, overnights, and holidays.

• Provides individual, family, and group therapy for mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders in an integrated outpatient clinic setting, including in-person, telehealth, phone contact, and written correspondence.
• Conducts integrated mental health and substance use assessments, including completion of ASAM Criteria (3rd Edition) multidimensional evaluations to determine appropriate level of care.
• Develops diagnoses, treatment plans, and recovery plans in collaboration with clients and interdisciplinary team members, incorporating evidence-based practices for co-occurring disorders.
• Performs ongoing risk assessments, creates crisis plans, and determines appropriate levels of care as needed.
• Delivers emergency and crisis stabilization services including screening, referral, and short-term care planning.
• Conducts ongoing assessment of client stability, including evaluating risk of harm to self or others, development of crisis/safety plans, and determining level of care needed.
• Provides substance use counseling services including individual and group counseling, relapse prevention, psychoeducation, and aftercare planning.
• Documents assessments, ASAM evaluations, treatment plans, progress notes, referrals, and discharge summaries in accordance with agency, professional, state, and federal standards.
• Prepares and submits service billing and completes data collection and state reporting requirements in a timely and accurate manner.
• Provides community education, psycho educational groups, and prevention activities on mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders.
• Offers training, screening, consultation, and collaboration to internal divisions, law enforcement, schools, and other community partners.
• Provides clinical input to justice-system-aligned programs including Drug Court, including assessments, staffing participation, treatment recommendations, and court communication.
• Participates in clinical staffing, case consultation, and team-based care planning across mental health and substance use programs.
• May provide services or coverage in other program areas within Health and Human Services.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Master’s degree in social work, clinical psychology, counseling, or related behavioral health field.
• Three (3) years’ experience providing clinical services to clients in a clinic setting.
• Experience working with young children preferred.
• Experience with criminal justice-involved services and conducting substance use assessments, specifically ASAM, 3rd edition, preferred.
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) training and experience, preferred.

• State of Wisconsin Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), or Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC).

Expected Pay Range: $74,090 – $83,803/year
Full Pay Range: $74,090 – $103,210/year
Department: HHS – Behavioral Health
FTE: 1.0

St. Croix County is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to an individual’s race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, gender identity, disability, marital status, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.