Mental Health Therapist - Chief Sealth High School; FTE

Job Category: Mental Health

Requisition Number: MENTA
005809

• Part-Time
• On-site

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Chief Sealth Inter'l High
Seattle, WA, USA

School-Based Mental Health Therapists provide mental health services to children and teens within the school-based health center setting and in accordance with the Mental Health Scope of Services. They focus on the full spectrum of care, from promoting healthy development and preventing problems, to long-term intervention and support for students unable to obtain adequate mental health care from other organizations or in a non-school context.

Emphasis is on asset and strengths-building; symptom reduction; increasing, stabilizing, and maintaining functioning; and on individual, family, and group modalities. School-based Mental Health Therapists provide services with a variety of therapeutic techniques, including evidence-based practices.

• Paid time off & paid holidays
• Retirement with contribution match
• Employee assistance program, & more!

• The target wage range for this position is $45.51 per hour to $63.95 per hour.
• Final offers are individually based on various factors, including skill set, years of experience, location, qualifications, work schedule and other job-related reasons.

Please note that as a part of theschool-based health care program this position is on standby during the summer for approximately eightto tenweeks. School based employees are not paid during the standby period. The duration of the standby period may fluctuate from year to year depending on many factors.

• This is a grant-funded, non-union position

• Provide high quality, strengths-based services to clients in alignment with the Scope of Services and productivity expectations.
• Assist students, parents and school personnel in efforts to remove psychosocial and mental/emotional health obstacles to students’ healthy functioning and academic performance.
• Provide individual, family, and group therapy; case management; classroom presentations; and psycho-educational services in accordance with the needs of the specific school population and as specified by applicable funding contract(s).
• Participate in school-wide interventions as appropriate.
• Assess mental health needs and develop individualized treatment goals for each caseload client.
• Review and revise treatment goals as clinically appropriate, and at least as frequently as required by applicable funding contract(s).
• Exchange information within legal and ethical guidelines, with the goal of providing the best individual and team care.
• Participate actively in multidisciplinary team care provision, including but not limited to, coordinating, and integrating client care with other providers within and outside of Neighbor care Health.
• Work with school staff, Neighbor care Health staff, and community providers to maximize students’ access to health services, within Neighbor care Health and/or with other organizations.
• Complete required documentation in a timely manner, and in accordance with requirements specified by the State of Washington, Neighbor care Health, and funders.
• Report all known and suspected abuse or neglect per Washington State Law.
• Uphold Neighbor care Health service commitments: (a warm welcome; respect; caring; working together and trusting relationship) with internal and external customers.
• Maintain professionalism and confidentiality in administration and patient care areas.
• Attend site, SBHC Program, and Neighbor care Health meetings as directed by supervisor.
• Attend Neighbor care Health Behavioral Health Team meetings as directed by supervisor or Behavioral Health Program Manager.

• Represents Neighbor care core values with integrity:
  Ssocial Justice, Cultural Sensitivity, Community, and Excellence.
• Ability to work effectively and respectfully with students of varying ethnicities, cultures, socioeconomic backgrounds, and gender/sexuality identities.
• Knowledge of child and adolescent development, group dynamics, and family systems.
• Knowledge of mental health diagnoses.
• Knowledge of school systems and local resources.
• Knowledge of and ability to maintain appropriate professional boundaries.
• Knowledge of and ability to maintain legal and ethical professional standards.
• Skill in oral and written interpersonal communication.
• Ability to identify factors putting students at risk for mental health…