Children's Residential Center Therapist

SUMMARY: The CRC Therapist provides ongoing clinical and/or administrative support to each Clinical Team as needed and/or assigned. Facilitates Day Treatment groups and provides individual therapy as assigned. Offers crisis support and ongoing therapeutic support to clients according need. Shows a high level of competence in service provision/clinical practice.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

It is the responsibility of each employee to be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ and to adhere to the Statement of Faith/Standard of Moral Conduct. Further, each employee is responsible for dealing with others with a Christ-like attitude while helping them experience their worth in Christ and demonstrating behaviors reflecting CCHO's core values of Relentless Commitment, Selflessness, and Kindness.

Job-specific essential functions include the following:

• Makes every effort to maintain a 'team first' spirit and atmosphere within the workplace environment – fostering and maintaining appropriate working relationships within the Children's Residential Center team, and with other Agency departments, as well.
• Facilitates group sessions, assisting individuals to understand and overcome past trauma and find hope and insight into their present and future dreams/goals.
• Completes appropriate documentation and paperwork including, but not limited to, progress notes after each therapy and group session, possible Mental Health Assessment/Individualized Treatment Plan development as directed. Develops and maintains appropriate records on clients.
• Supports the Cottage Clinicians through providing any of the following as requested by Cottage Therapist and/or assigned by supervisor:
  Help with completing Documentation (i.e. Treatment Plans and Treatment Plan Reviews, MHSUD Assessments, MHSUD Assessment Updates, D/C Summaries, Step down Letters, Removal letters, Behavioral Intervention Plans, 30-Day Assessments, Pharmacological Care Sheets), Ongoing or temporary Supportive Therapy for clients to address identified clinical and behavioral concerns.
• Participates in various assigned committees as directed.
• Attends treatment meetings as able/assigned.
• Provides relevant mental health training to staff as directed/assigned.
• Participates in agency and professional training for personal/professional development.

Other duties may be assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: None.

REQUIRED SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedure, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to read, comprehend and write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to effectively communicate before groups of varying sizes of customers or employees of the organization.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including conflict resolution, required. Must be able to communicate well with colleagues, verbally and in writing to ensure safety and efficiency.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize assignments. Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to apply common sense. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.,) in its most difficult phases and deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
• Competency with Microsoft Office Suite and the internet, as well as CCHO clinical documentation software (electronic health record).
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced environment, as well as cope and tolerate high levels of stress.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSES:

• Master's degree in social work or counseling and corresponding licensure (LSW or LPC) required. If an intern/license
  -eligible, license should be obtained in no less than 6 months.
• Three to five years related experience, with strong preference for experience in a children's residential treatment facility.
• Valid Ohio Driver's License and a driving record that allows that individual to be insurable on agency policy, as job includes occasional travel.

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