TASK Therapist

About the role

This is a highly impactful role for clinicians who want to lead, influence outcomes, and work collaboratively across systems to create lasting change.

Responsibilities

• Deliver High-Impact Clinical Care
• Provide individual, family, and group therapy using evidence-based approaches
• Complete Comprehensive Evaluations of Sexual Harm (CESH) and make recommendations for treatment, placement, and safety planning
• Clinical assessments and mental status evaluations to guide care
• Develop meaningful, individualized treatment plans rooted in assessment data
• Support youth and families in building safe, sustainable behaviors across home, school, and community settings
• Lead Clinical Decision-Making
• Serve as the clinical lead on multidisciplinary teams
• Co-facilitate Child and Family Team meetings and guide care planning
• Advocate for youth in schools, courts, and community systems
• Recommend the least restrictive, most effective level of care
• Guide & Supervise Team Members
• Supervise and support TASK Case Managers in treatment planning and documentation
• Ensure quality and compliance across treatment plans and records
• Provide consultation, coaching, and support to strengthen team performance
• Ensure Quality & Compliance
• Complete timely, accurate documentation in the electronic health record
• Maintain compliance with Medicaid, DJJ, and other regulatory standards
• Participate in peer reviews and quality assurance processes
• Track client progress through assessments, life plans, and outcome tools
• Support Continuity of Care
• Develop discharge plans and step-down recommendations
• Coordinate with external providers to ensure smooth transitions
• Aid families in accessing resources that support long-term stability

What Sets This Role Apart

• Clinical leadership opportunity with real influence on treatment outcomes
• Work within a collaborative, multidisciplinary model
• Opportunity to engage in court advocacy, school collaboration, and community training
• Meaningful, mission-driven work that directly improves safety and well-being

What You Bring

• Strong clinical assessment and treatment planning skills
• Experience working with youth and families with complex behavioral needs
• Ability to balance clinical expertise with compliance and documentation requirements
• Leadership skills with the ability to supervise and guide others
• Strong communication skills across clinical, legal, and community settings
• A commitment to ethical, trauma-informed, and evidence-based care

What We Expect from All Team Members

This is more than a clinical role—it’s an opportunity to lead change, support healing, and make communities safer for children and families.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Children’s Hope Alliance is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Minimum of Master’s Degree in a human service field and NC licensure or provisional licensure in one of the following disciplines: LPC, LCSW, LMFT.
• Strongly preferred one experience in human service field.
• PREFERRED CREDENTIALING WITH VARIOUS MCOS.
• PREFERRED EXPERIENCE WITH POPULATIONS WHO HAVE CAUSED SEXUAL HARM AND/OR ADOLESCENTS UNDER THE COURT'S JURISDICTION.
• PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE OF AND EXPERIENCE WITH FAMILY SYSTEMS, FAMILY THERAPY, AND BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS.
• Must be culturally sensitive to clients and families and support cultural diversity throughout the program.
• Requires effective communication, decision making, analytical, interpersonal, leadership and professionalism skills and abilities.
• MUST BE FAMILIAR WITH SUPERVISION AND GROUP FACILITATION.
• MUST HAVE BASIC COMPUTER AND MATH SKILLS.
• MUST HAVE A VALID NORTH CAROLINA’S DRIVER’S LICENSE.
• MUST SUBMIT TO AND PASS PRE-Employment DRUG SCREENING, CRIMINAL, HCPR AND DRIVING CHECKS.

Physical Requirements

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, talk, and hear.
• The employee is frequently required to reach with hands or arms, stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
• Specifics vision abilities required by this position include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Physical functions which are considered essential to the satisfactory performance of the job include the following: reading, typing, writing, speaking, and using the telephone and prolonged sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Employee must be able to operate a vehicle for job duties, and keep a valid NC drivers license with insurance.
• The work environment will contain slight to moderate office-related noises.
• The employee is not exposed to extreme weather conditions, toxic fumes, or airborne particles.
• The employee must occasionally travel to different locations in the course of work.
• Physical functions which are considered essential to the satisfactory performance of the job include the following: public speaking, reading, typing, writing, using the telephone, driving, therapeutically restraining children and adolescents in crisis situations.