Behavioral Health Therapist - Baldwin Whitehall School District - Full Time

Essential Responsibilities

• Provides counseling services in individual, marital and family modalities to improve or maintain ability to function effectively in necessary family, vocational and community roles.
• Serves children, adolescents, adults, and elderly clients by staff appropriately trained to provide services to the specific age groups.
• Based on program needs, provides services at outpatient or inpatient units, including counseling center locations and IOP.
• Triage outpatient clients to recommend appropriate treatment setting.
• Expedites referrals to appropriate inpatient, rehabilitation, intensive outpatient or community agencies, or resources to provide/establish appropriate care.
• Maintains current clinical records to document service and client response or non-compliance.
• Prepares reports of service for insurance and referral agencies for service approval.
• Develops written treatment plans to identify treatment goals.
• Collaborates with the treatment team for psychiatric and psychological assessments to ensure necessary service components.
• Provides on-call contact with clients as assigned to assess urgency of client need and recommend appropriate management.
• Provides on-call coverage to caseload and for staff coverage to assess need as contacted.
• Contributes to the development of Counseling Center programs, policies, and procedures to ensure currency and appropriateness of same.
• Acts as an inter and intra-system liaison and resource person to provide continuity of care and educational assistance as required.
• Participates in planning/marketing strategies to ensure referral sources.
• Participates in peer utilization and/or review and assists in coordination of related quality assurance efforts to improve provision of service.
• Updates clinical expertise to ensure treatment skills are current.

Qualifications

• Minimum Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or related field.
• 3 to 5 years of prior job-related work experience.
• Pennsylvania State LCSW, LPC, or Psychologist licensure.
• CPR – American Heart Association.
• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
• Preferred Ph.D. in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or related field.