Family Support Program Outpatient Acute Therapist

About the role

Full-time child maltreatment team. Position will be located at 655 East Livingston Ave. at the Center for Family Safety and Healing. 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.

Essential Functions

• 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 consistent with program expectations.
• Coordinates client care with other service providers and community resources to assure continuity of care.
• Remains current in general knowledge of psychopharmacology in pediatric behavioral healthcare and collaborates consistently with team psychiatrist.

Education Requirement

Master's Degree from an accredited university or professional school of Counseling, Social Work or Marriage and Family Therapy, required.

Licensure Requirement

• Appropriate Ohio licensure, required. Must remain current in required licensure and clinical or other training as required.
• Independent license, preferred.
• 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.

Experience

Experience providing and managing culturally appropriate and trauma-informed behavioral healthcare to children, adolescent and families, required.

Physical Requirements

• Occasionally: Bend/twist, Climb stairs/ladder, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Loud Noises, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Reaching above shoulder, Squat/kneel, 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