Child & Adolescent School Based Therapist

Child and Adolescent School Based Therapist

You are key to our vision: Together We Thrive. At Kenneth Young Center, our staff come together with volunteers, community partners, and the people we serve to create holistic systems of care through interwoven behavioral health programs, older adult services, and community health initiatives. Our team welcomes and celebrates unique perspectives, and represents the diversity and vitality of our local communities. This role helps realize our mission: We partner with communities to support people of all ages to navigate life's challenges through personalized prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery. Join our team to grow in your career while building stronger, healthier communities.

Job Scope: Child & Adolescent Therapists provide behavioral health services in an outpatient community based program or school based program serving individuals ages 3-24 years old and their families. Therapists will engage client/ families in treatment planning and motivational enhancement while planning evidence based services to most effectively attain the client’s/ family’s clinical goals. Specific team assignments and duties will be determined based on clinical expertise, experience, interest and credentials.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide initial screenings and mental health assessments that identify service needs and recommend options for care.
• Share assessment findings with clients and their families.
• Involve client and their families in the development of treatment plan goals, objectives and interventions that address their assessed behavioral health needs.
• Provide individual, family and group therapy services.
• Provide case management services to assist clients and their families with access to needed benefits and services
• Provide coordinated care by initiating or participating in client centered consultation with other internal and external providers involved in care or services.
• Reassess and review treatment progress with clients and their families at proscribed intervals.
• Assist in establishing effective communication between the Center, other social agencies serving clients, and the community
• Attend staffings or meetings as needed to coordinate care and services for the clients being seen in the school.
  
  

Performance Requirements

• Work cooperatively with Childhood Services team members to assure clients timely access to quality services
• Meet agency quality and compliance standard by accurately completing clinical documentation and service reporting in a timely manner.
• Meet or exceed service productivity target.
• Implement evidenced based practices to ensure use of effective and efficient treatment that best address client needs
• Participation in Staff training and development seminars
• Working cooperatively with other Center teams and programs to maintain smooth continuity of care when cases are shared across teams
• Become familiar with and utilization of outside resources as needed to provide comprehensive services to clients
• Participate in supervision with Coordinator and in regular performance appraisals as directed
  
  

Education And Experience

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or University in Counseling, Social Work, Psychology or closely related discipline required (candidates currently enrolled in a master’s program will be considered on a case by case basis).
• LCSW/LCPC preferred, but will consider applicants that are eligible to sit for the exam in the future.
• Must have supervised experience in providing counseling and/or psychotherapy services
• Must demonstrate knowledge in the areas of diagnostic assessment, long and short term treatment, family systems theory and group treatment
• Must have basic computer and keyboarding skills.
  
  

Schedule/Time Keeping

• Full-Time, Exempt, Salaried, 37.5 hour work week
• Must work a flexible schedule in response to the needs of the target population served, including evening and Saturday hours.
  
  

Ken­neth Young Cen­ter offers a robust ben­e­fit pack­age that is high­ly com­pet­i­tive to the mar­ket and offers all full-time employ­ees the following:

• 403(b) plan with orga­ni­za­tion­al matching
• Medical Insurance (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illi­nois - BCBS)
• Den­tal (BCBS), and Vision Insur­ance (BCBS) with low employee premiums
• Long Term and Short Term Dis­abil­i­ty (BCBS), no cost to employee
• Flex­i­ble Spend­ing Account (with annu­al rollover)
• Basic life insur­ance (50k) paid for by the organization and option for addi­tion­al vol­un­tary cov­er­age for self, spouse, or depen­dents (BCBS)
• Incentive program with potential for quarterly bonuses
• Opportunity for annual bonus and salary increase (discretionary based on annual KYC financial audit)
• Eligibility to participate in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)
  
  

To fur­ther pro­mote an active and healthy work/ life bal­ance, KYC also offers a gen­er­ous amount of paid time off and staff holidays.

• 4 weeks of Paid Time Off (With increas­es based on seniority)
• 8 Paid Orga­ni­za­­­tion-Wide Hol­i­days
• 3 Per­son­al Float­ing Hol­i­days annually
  
  

Kenneth Young Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer