School Based Mental Health Professional Salary

Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide therapy and consultation services to clients and families in compliance with Chapter 5200 regulations governing outpatient psychiatric clinics.
• Compile an individualized treatment plan for each client that includes counseling objectives and goals as well as a crisis plan.
• Meet with parent/guardian to review treatment plans as required.
• Complete clinical notes on all therapy sessions.
• Prepare written documentation describing a client's progress in achieving treatment goals.
• Maintain compliance with HIPAA standards, develop cooperative relationships with community agencies, and facilitate treatment services provided to all clients.
• Communicate and collaborate to facilitate integration of child-serving efforts put forth by the agency, a District, and providers working in other child-serving systems.
• Deliver the required number of billable hours (as applicable).
• Administer evidence-based interventions, assessments, and outcome measurements to drive treatment.
• Attend individual and group supervision as required.
• Prepare progress reports, court summaries, attend court hearings, and/or conduct progress review meetings with referring agencies as needed.
• Perform other special projects or duties as requested by the Supervisor, Regional Director, Chief Operations Officer or Chief Executive Officer.

Qualifications

• Graduatedegree in a clinical field issued by an accredited educational institution that included a clinical practicum.
• Licensure is preferred and required in some areas; i.e. Licensed Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Marriage & Family Mental Health Professional.
• Specialized learning in Resiliency & Trauma.
• Specialized learning in evidence-based treatment interventions.
• Three years of experience working with children, adolescents and their families in a clinical setting is preferred.

Skills

• Good interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to develop effective and meaningful relationships with clients.
• Able to remain calm in a crisis situation, identify underlying causes of problem situations, resolve conflicts, and de-escalate potentially explosive situations.
• Able to be a team player.