BH Outpatient Therapist- BHP

About the Role

Provides clinical assessment, behavioral health treatment, case management, care coordination, and crisis intervention for children, adolescents, and their families across all professional and clinical settings.

Responsibilities

• Accurately assesses and documents client presenting problems, history, symptomology, mental status, and diagnosis.
• Prescribes initial interventions in a timely manner.
• Assists in developing specific, realistic, and measurable treatment goals and objectives.
• Employs strategies of intervention that are consistent with empirically supported treatments and program expectations.
• Coordinates client care with other service providers and community resources to assure continuity of care.
• Completes clinical charting and other related administrative paperwork in accordance with policy standards.
• Remains current in general knowledge of psychopharmacology in pediatric behavioral healthcare and collaborates consistently with team psychiatrist.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree from an accredited university or professional school of Counseling, Social Work, or Marriage and Family Therapy, required.
• Appropriate Ohio licensure, required. Must remain current in required licensure and clinical or other training as required.
• Independent license, preferred.
• Experience providing and managing culturally appropriate and trauma-informed behavioral healthcare to children, adolescents, and families, required.

Intern-to-Hire Provision

Internal or organizational interns who have completed their academic program may be hired while awaiting full licensure, provided they hold a valid Ohio Board Trainee Registration. Candidates must be operating within the initial 60-day post-graduation window or an approved trainee extension (up to 6 months maximum).

Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive relationships with patients, families, peers, and community representatives.

Physical Requirements

• Occasionally: Lifting/Carrying (0-10 lbs), Loud Noises, Pushing/Pulling (0-25 lbs), Reaching above shoulder, Working Outdoors
• Frequently: Flexing/extending of neck, Sitting, Standing, Walking
• Continuously: Audible speech, Color vision, Computer skills, Decision Making, Depth perception, Hand use (grasping, gripping, turning), Hearing acuity, Interpreting Data, Peripheral vision, Problem solving, Repetitive hand/arm use, Seeing (far/near)

Additional physical activities include talking on the phone/in person constantly (67-100%).