Outpatient Therapist (1099)

Job Description

Job Description

Job Type: 1099 Contractor

Location:  West and Southwest Philadelphia areas

Pay Rate: $35 - $39/hour

Population:  Children and Adults

Our Mission 

Dunbar Wellness Group, Inc.  was founded by a group of dedicated community-based partners. Our mission is to integrate a holistic treatment approach that includes understanding community ecology and social advocacy for children and families in Philadelphia.

In addition, we promote quality therapeutic services that are resiliency and recovery-focused, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive to the unique needs of urban children and families.

Benefits:

• Professional development and training opportunities to support career growth
• Flexible scheduling options to promote work-life balance

Job Description

Duties:

• Outpatient Therapists provide intensive family-oriented therapy services to children, adolescents, and adults with mental health disorders and emotional disturbances.  
• Outpatient Therapists  provide a family system perspective and intervention skills to involve both child clients and their adult caregivers in treatment.
• Collaborate with any other treatment providers and function as a liaison to placement agencies, Wrap-Around services, schools, and foster homes to assure an integrated approach to treatment is developed on behalf of the agency.
• Outpatient Therapists are responsible for the maintenance of clinical records, including progress notes and other documentation in accordance with accreditation and licensing standards, managed care expectations, and agency policy and procedures. 
• Provide appropriate individual and family counseling services to the assigned caseload daily. 
• Apply patient documentation and record-keeping guidelines set by the state, managed care, and agency policies.
• Outpatient Therapist s must be able to identify problems, secure relevant data to identify possible causes, generate alternative courses of action, possible consequences, reach conclusions and solutions based on thorough analysis and reasoning.
• Outpatient Therapists must demonstrate the ability to set goals, assign priorities, anticipate problems, establish limits, achieve results, and complete multiple tasks within timelines.

Minimum Requirements for Position:

• Master’s Degree from an accredited university in a clinical mental health discipline, such as Psychology, Counseling, Clinical Social Work, Psychiatric Nursing, and Marriage and Family therapy, for example. The Master’s Degree must include clinical coursework in the foundations of behavioral health and the provision of mental health services (i.e., individual, group, and family therapy, abnormal psychology, psychopathology, cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic therapy, crisis counseling, assessment, child development, personality theory, psychotherapy lab, clinical practicum). Other courses may count as determined by a review of the transcript/syllabi.
• At least two (2) years of verified experience in the mental health field.
• Valid Child Abuse, Criminal History, and FBI clearances.
• Provide Certificate of Insurance
• Participation in and completion of all CBH mandatory in-services 
• Participation in at least ten (10) hours of documented additional in-service per year.
• Review Resumes for Outpatient Therapist
• Keep track of active client caseload
• Outpatient Therapist administrative discharge
• Outpatient Supervision