Part-Time Clinical Therapist

About the role

SAFY is seeking a Clinical Therapist (Part Time Under 25) for our Huntsville division in Alabama. Our mission is to preserve families and secure futures by providing services such as Family Preservation & Reunification, Behavioral Health, Therapeutic Foster Care, Adoption Services, and Older Youth Services.

Responsibilities

• Provide a range of moderately complex clinical services with children, adolescents, and adults.
• Administer, score, and interpret moderate level psychometric assessment instruments.
• Develop and maintain consultative and liaison relationships with catchment area caregivers.
• Establish mutually respectful rapport and implement interventions necessary to meet needs of clients/collaterals; appropriately set limits and maintain helping role as a Mental Health practitioner.
• Complete assessments as required by state rules, agency policies, and/or contract requirements.
• Prepare all required clinical documentation per established time frames involving all appropriate parties as required by policy and regulations of the state/program/contract/SAFY policy and COA standards.
• Administer and/or interpret moderate level psychometric assessment tools.
• Provide individual, group and family therapy.
• Develop / assist in development of crisis, safety and behavioral management plans.
• Document outcome of home/office visits, support sessions, interaction with parties involved in the client’s care and incidents as required by policy, regulations and contract requirements.
• Prepare and submit timely all required company, RFP, program, referral agency and regulatory reports, progress notes, and billing tickets.
• Compile profile using pre and post assessment tools for outcome measures.
• Report clientele caseload according to requirement to support personnel as identified by program (ex: Office Manager, Medicaid specialist, finance personnel).
• Review all client files pertaining to assigned caseload as part of the quality improvement process.
• Maintain contact with referral agency personnel using discharge reports, Diagnostic Assessment forms, telephone calls, and incident reports in addition to regularly scheduled and required written reports.
• Meet state required utilization standards for Mental Health services.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in the field of social work, counseling, psychology, or other license-eligible related field of human services.
• LMSW or LCSW required.
• Two years of experience in the field of mental health/therapeutic intervention with children, adolescents, and families.
• Experience with family preservation services and/or best practice models of clinical application preferred.

What You Bring

We are looking for people from diverse backgrounds and experiences who are inspired by our noble mission to make a difference in the lives of the children and families in our care. You’ll be right at home if you are willing to learn from successes as well as setbacks, persevere in challenges and adversity, cultivate collaborative relationships, understand and leverage diversity, advocate for equity, aspire to work inclusively, and partner to drive your work and that of your team to the next level.

What We Offer

• Targeted hiring range: $20.00 - $31.00/hr.
• Compensation is commensurate with transferrable experience, education and licensure of candidate, location of the position, along with internal equity and budgeted amount for the role.
• Mileage reimbursement.