Mental Health Therapist (Master's Level)

About the role

Mental Health Therapist (Master’s Level) responsible for conducting mental health assessments and providing evidence-based therapies to patients and their families under the supervision of a Licensed Mental Health Therapist. Reports to department leadership.

Responsibilities

• Conducts mental health evaluations to identify mental health symptoms and psychosocial stressors and/or supports, including chronic illness, trauma, disability, primary support group, educational experiences, social environment, legal system, and other psychosocial or environmental factors.
• Develops an individualized treatment plan to address identified diagnoses and symptoms.
• Provides evidence-based therapies to children with mental health diagnoses and co-occurring acute or chronic illness, trauma, or disability.
• Completes comprehensive evaluations for review by the broader treatment team (such as treating MD referral source).
• Completes psychosocial evaluations, progress notes, and individualized treatment plans in accordance with established best practices and third-party guidelines.
• Evaluates children and adolescents at risk for harm to self or others to determine the appropriate level of care and facilitates admission to inpatient psychiatric facilities and/or referrals to other community mental health services, as appropriate.
• Obtains outcome measures through the use of psychometric tools to track clinical trends and share data on patient progress with collaborating physicians.
• Leads coordination efforts with patients' medical care providers to ensure seamless integration of medical and mental health care.
• Runs evidence-based groups as a co-facilitator.
• May participate in department on-call as needed.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Must be in the process of working towards clinical hours for a current Virginia clinical license (Licensed Clinical Social Work or Licensed Professional Counselor).
• Must complete all licensure requirements within 3 years.
• Must complete all training requirements determined by department leadership, including MATCH and any other evidence-based trainings offered.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, or Mental Health required.
• 6 months of therapy and assessment experience required.
• One to two years of related work experience preferred (including internship) and approval letter toward clinical supervision.
• Experience with implementing evidence-based treatments with children and families in both individual and group treatment modalities preferred.

Skills

• Exceptional interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Ability to work as a multidisciplinary team member.
• Position may require occasional travel to offsite locations.

Working Conditions

• Normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature, and the like.

Increased security clearance required for job role in Children’s Pavilion: FBI fingerprinting, criminal background check, Child Protective Services registry search, and National Sex Offender registry check.