Sr Primary Therapist

Location: 355 Grand Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 | Department: OP Child Partial Hosp, Jersey City Medical Center | Category: Behavioral and Mental Health | Status: Full-Time, Hourly | Shift: Day | Req #: 0000271075

About the role

At RWJBarnabas Health, our Senior Primary Therapist becomes part of a purpose-driven environment where compassion, clinical excellence, and patient-centered care create meaningful opportunities to support children, adolescents, and families on their mental health journey. This Licensed Clinician role offers opportunities for professional growth, interdisciplinary collaboration, and a trauma-informed culture committed to safety, healing, and continuous improvement. As a Licensed Clinician in our OP Child Partial Hosp. department, you will play an essential role in delivering evidence-based behavioral health services, developing individualized treatment plans, and partnering with a strong, clinically based multidisciplinary team dedicated to promoting resilience, recovery, and emotional well-being across youth populations. Joining RWJBarnabas Health means joining a community where every Licensed Clinician is encouraged to grow, contribute, and make a lasting impact.

Responsibilities

• Delivering direct clinical services, including individual, group, and family psychotherapy, crisis intervention, case management, and outreach services to children, adolescents, and their families in a supportive outpatient and partial hospitalization setting.
• Ensuring all clinical service delivery fully reflects relevant age and developmental considerations for the youth being treated.
• Developing a comprehensive history of the patient, including psychosocial development, current functioning, presenting problems, and treatment history through interviews with the patient, family, and significant others.
• Managing the timely development, implementation, monitoring, and documentation of the initial interdisciplinary treatment plan.
• Facilitating the appropriate termination of care with assigned patients as per the treatment plan, ensuring seamless follow-up and timely documentation.
• Submitting closed medical records to the clinical supervisor on time and in full compliance with organizational standards.
• Attending weekly clinical supervision and taking an active role in continuous clinical learning.
• Participating in and presenting complex cases during multidisciplinary case conferences to ensure high-quality, coordinated care.
• Taking responsibility for professional growth through on-going participation in educational programs on-site and off-site, including providing clinical oversight to interns in the program.
• Actively contributing to the department's customer satisfaction goals and quality improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Compassion and empathy guide your approach to caring for children, adolescents, and families experiencing complex behavioral health challenges.
• You are eager to join a dynamic, clinically focused multidisciplinary team operating within a trauma-informed framework.
• Strong clinical assessment and critical thinking skills enable you to develop effective treatment plans and respond confidently to changing patient needs in pediatric and adolescent care.
• You communicate effectively and build trusting therapeutic relationships with young patients, their families, and your clinical colleagues.
• Collaboration is central to your practice, and you enjoy working as part of an active outpatient and partial hospitalization behavioral health team.
• You value professional growth, clinical supervision, and lifelong learning as essential components of your career, and enjoy guiding the next generation of clinicians.
• You maintain professionalism, organization, and strict attention to detail while balancing clinical documentation, patient care, and regulatory compliance.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Social Work, Counseling Psychology, or a related field required.
• Current New Jersey professional license required (LSW, LAC, LCSW, LPC, or Licensed Clinical Psychologist); candidates who are near-licensed will also be considered.
• At least one (1) year of experience working with children and/or adolescents is required.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed practices and experience utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is highly preferred.
• Proven competence in comprehensive youth psychosocial assessments, therapeutic interventions, crisis management, and compliant documentation workflows.

Schedule

Full-Time Day Shift: Scheduled 40 hours per week.

Pay

$31.00 - $35.45