Rehabilitation Counselor (C), Expressive Therapist

About the role

Tewksbury Hospital, operated by the Department of Mental Health (DMH), is seeking an experienced Expressive Therapist to provide quality rehabilitation and recovery services with a focus on Music Therapy within the Expressive Therapy Services. The selected candidate will deliver person-centered and trauma-informed recovery and rehabilitation services to adults in the Northeast Area who have psychiatric and medical needs, using Expressive Therapy. The Expressive Therapist promotes and supports a recovery and resiliency model of rehabilitation by implementing SAMHSA’s 10 fundamental components of recovery. The Rehabilitation Services department emphasizes teamwork through co-leading groups, embracing flexibility, and participating in various committees.

Responsibilities

• Assess skill levels, strengths, interests, and potential challenges; provide interventions that facilitate success while supporting individual choice.
• Provide work adjustment training, social skills training, and ongoing support to individuals served to increase successful rehabilitation outcomes.
• Deliver Expressive Therapy assessment and treatment, including Music Therapy assessment and treatment.
• Assist individuals served in developing and monitoring their individualized, person-centered rehabilitation/recovery goals and schedules.
• Participate in various committees, assigned meetings, and trainings.
• Facilitate groups, activities, and events, including community transition groups and trips.
• Supervise staff and Expressive Therapy students as assigned.
• Partner with the Fieldwork Supervisor and complete all related documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Knowledge of the principles and practice of psychiatric rehabilitation, including counseling techniques for psychiatric rehabilitation.
• Demonstrated experience with the principles and practices of expressive therapy, including a wide variety of expressive therapy techniques and modalities.
• Familiarity with the types and symptoms of mental illness.
• Basic knowledge of general report writing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the Recovery and Resiliency Model.
• Experience supervising students.
• Ability to function independently.
• Understanding of motivational interviewing techniques.
• Comprehensive knowledge base of the components of community integration.
• Completion of degree requirements for Expressive Therapist; full licensure as an Expressive Therapist.
• Bilingual or multilingual fluency.
• MT-BC (Music Therapist Board Certified).

Minimum Entrance Requirements

• At least four years of full-time, or equivalent part-time, professional experience in social work, social casework, vocational counseling, employment counseling, rehabilitation counseling, or educational counseling.

Substitutions

• A Bachelor’s or higher degree in rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation counseling, education of the physically or emotionally handicapped, education of the multiple handicapped, education of the learning disabled, social work, psychology, human services, or counseling may be substituted for the required experience on the basis of two years of education for one year of experience.
• A Bachelor’s or higher degree in a major other than those listed above may be substituted for a maximum of one year of the required experience on the basis of four years of education for one year of experience.
• A Master’s or higher degree in social work, psychology, human services, rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation counseling, or counseling may be substituted for an additional year of the required experience on the basis of two years of education for one year of experience.
• Licensure as a Licensed Rehabilitation Counselor by the Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health Professionals or Certification as a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor by the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification may be substituted for the required experience.

Schedule

• 40 hours per week, 1st shift.
• Monday: 11:00 AM – 7:30 PM
• Tuesday – Friday: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
• Days off: Saturday and Sunday.

Salary

$73,555.04