Mental Health Therapist

This is a community-based position that serves residents of the Pueblo of San Felipe. The incumbent provides a range of psychological assessment, diagnostic and therapeutic services for individuals, groups, and families as directed. In addition to providing direct clinical services, the incumbent will serve as a clinical leader within the Behavioral Health Program, ensuring that treatment recommendations for families under child welfare services are clinically sound, culturally informed, and well-coordinated with tribal and community partners.

• Provides individual, group, and/or family outpatient mental health therapy/counseling to clients and families as appropriate to the position; prepares assessments, treatment plans, discharge plans and follow-up care programs; provides therapeutic crisis intervention and emergency services as applicable.
• Collects information about clients through assessment, observation, case history, and screenings as applicable; evaluates information to identify causes of presenting problems and make clinical recommendations as appropriate to client’s needs.
• Provides clinical oversight for youth and welfare services and leads clinical consultation and case management efforts to coordinate appropriate therapeutic and mental health interventions for children, parents, and families. Includes reviewing cases, guiding treatment planning, and issuing clinical recommendations for child welfare cases.
• Participates in direct engagement with youth, families, and clients through attending home visits, school team meetings, treatment team meetings to gather historical/ current information that helps drive clinical interventions.
• Provides mentorship and training to providers and multidisciplinary teams including formal training sessions and workshops, shadowing opportunities, guidance with complex cases, and mental health interventions. This would include ongoing supervision to Family Support Worker and CPSW positions, including those funded through the GLS grant.
• Completes clinical reviews for child welfare families, gathering data on social, emotional, and environmental factors to provide clinical recommendations on course of treatment.
• Establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with multidisciplinary teams-including community providers, therapists, substance use counselors, schools, peer support staff, tribal courts, tribal officials, and community agencies- for purposes that include but are not limited to: youth advocacy, providing wrap-around care, crisis-planning, policy development, developing clinical framework for suicide prevention and child welfare responses.
• Provides clinical support in crisis situations as determined by supervisor.
• Actively participates in daily and weekly team meetings to guide youth-centered planning from intake through case closure, ensuring permanency planning and stable supports are in place for families.
• Completes documentation for assigned caseload and submits any monthly, quarterly, annual data relevant for tracking families involved in services.
• As “Essential Staff” may be required to be available for on-call duty coverage and must be prepared to work on days determined to be Tribal Holidays or Administrative Leave.