Mental Health Clinician

About the role

Centro de la Familia is expanding its team to empower children, families, and individuals to build their better tomorrows. Join us!

Responsibilities

• Engage clients in office and community-based settings.
• Provide direct and indirect, covered services and treatment to individual clients.
• Coordinate with community support and stakeholders.
• Own your appointment schedule and assigned caseload.
• Conduct assessments, implement treatment plans, facilitate out-of-office services, perform crisis services when needed.
• Participate in a multi-disciplinary team in providing treatment for clients.
• Communicate with and coordinate services with other treatment providers when appropriate.
• Attend and actively participate in team meetings.
• Manage and monitor individually assigned caseloads.
• Maintain personal contact with client/families at least every 30 days.
• Accurate documentation of progress notes the same day as service is provided, not to exceed 24 hours; crisis documentation completed same day as service.
• Maintain and monitor caseload statistical information, including presenting issues, length of stay, and outcome measures when assigned.
• Perform comprehensive intake and ongoing assessments.
• Accurately document the assessment service, including assessment tools and progress notation.
• Conduct ongoing assessment, document functional and symptomatic improvements.
• Assist in working with clients with medication and case management services.
• Consult and coordinate with prescriber, laboratories, medical providers, and pharmacies, and assist with eligibility and access to prescription services when needed.
• Consult on initial and ongoing psychiatric evaluation requests.
• Provide individual/family counseling and facilitate groups.
• Engage clients, their families, and their community support in treatment.
• Provide illness self-management education and coordinate services with referral sources and discharge planning.
• Coordinate and conduct group functions and facilitate cohesiveness in its entirety that demonstrates improvement in a client’s/family’s symptoms and functioning level.
• De-escalate and de-brief disruptions to group and/or family content and process, as needed.
• Facilitate and coordinate group therapy process.
• Promote individual and family culture.
• Utilize informed consent in interventions, understand and apply the value and limitation of didactic approaches.
• Collaborate, coordinate and consult with other involved service providers and treatment team members.
• Provide services in the office or in the community, depending on the client's needs.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, or related field from an accredited university.
• Licensed or eligible for associate licensure in Arizona if license eligible, must pass the licensing exam within 9 months of hire.
• Prior internship, practicum, or supervised clinical experience.
• Bilingual language skills in English/Spanish preferred, and as appropriate to population served.
• Ability to obtain fingerprint clearance card, CPR and First Aid.
• Ability to travel into the community as needed to meet client needs.

Skills

• Working knowledge of lifespan development and harm reduction models.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize symptoms to the full and broad range of DSM diagnoses.
• Ability to provide routine, urgent, and emergent interventions.
• Ability to apply and integrate the American Society of Addiction Medicine criteria in service planning and implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to apply motivational enhancement, stages of change, family systems, and appropriate family communication process.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and screen for serious mental illness and complete requests for determination.
• Knowledge and ability to effectively engage clients in processes and maintain safety and cohesiveness.
• Knowledge of group therapy models and stages.

Benefits

Generous Paid Holiday, includes extended time off at the end of the year and 1 personal floating holiday
Paid Time Off & Paid Sick Days
Employee Recognition Program as your tenure grows
Free Preventative Services & Wellness Rewards
Medical, Dental, and Vision for Spouse/Domestic Partner & Children to age 26
Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Account
Life + Disability options
Employee Assistance Program
Telemedicine & Concierge Services
401(k) Retirement Plan
Pet Care, Life Mart Purchase Discounts
Tuition Reimbursement for qualifying degrees
Identity Theft Protection
& Voluntary Benefits Mileage Reimbursement for qualifying roles

Pay

$60,000 - $63,000 depending on licensure status

Schedule

Flexible Schedule - Be in the community, office and occasional work-from-home Fridays after training!