Children's Residential Center Therapist

Job Description

Job Description

SUMMARY: The CRC Therapist provides ongoing clinical and/or administrative support to each Clinical Team as needed and/or assigned. Facilitates Day Treatment groups and provides individual therapy as assigned. Offers crisis support and ongoing therapeutic support to clients according need. Shows a high level of competence in service provision/clinical practice.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

It is the responsibility of each employee to be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ and to adhere to the Statement of Faith/Standard of Moral Conduct. Further, each employee is responsible for dealing with others with a Christ-like attitude while helping them experience their worth in Christ and demonstrating behaviors reflecting CCHO's core values of Relentless Commitment, Selflessness, and Kindness.

Job-specific essential functions include the following:

• Makes every effort to maintain a 'team first' spirit and atmosphere within the workplace environment – fostering and maintaining appropriate working relationships within the Children's Residential Center team, and with other Agency departments, as well.
• Facilitates group sessions, assisting individuals to understand and overcome past trauma and find hope and insight into their present and future dreams/goals.
• Completes appropriate documentation and paperwork including, but not limited to, progress notes after each therapy and group session, possible Mental Health Assessment/Individualized Treatment Plan development as directed. Develops and maintains appropriate records on clients.
• Supports the Cottage Clinicians through providing any of the following as requested by Cottage Therapist and/or assigned by supervisor: Help with completing Documentation (i.e. Treatment Plans and Treatment Plan Reviews, MHSUD Assessments, MHSUD Assessment Updates, D/C Summaries, Step down Letters, Removal letters, Behavioral Intervention Plans, 30-Day Assessments, Pharmacological Care Sheets), Ongoing or temporary Supportive Therapy for clients to address identified clinical and behavioral concerns.
• Participates in various assigned committees as directed.
• Attends treatment meetings as able/assigned.
• Provides relevant mental health training to staff as directed/assigned.
• Participates in agency and professional training for personal/professional development.

Other duties may be assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: None.

REQUIRED SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedure, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to read, comprehend and write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to effectively communicate before groups of varying sizes of customers or employees of the organization.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including conflict resolution, required. Must be able to communicate well with colleagues, verbally and in writing to ensure safety and efficiency.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize assignments. Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to apply common sense. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.,) in its most difficult phases and deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
• Competency with Microsoft Office Suite and the internet, as well as CCHO clinical documentation software (electronic health record).
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced environment, as well as cope and tolerate high levels of stress.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSES:

• Master's degree in social work or counseling and corresponding licensure (LSW or LPC) required. If an intern/license -eligible, license should be obtained in no less than 6 months.
• Three to five years related experience, with strong preference for experience in a children's residential treatment facility.
• Valid Ohio Driver's License and a driving record that allows that individual to be insurable on agency policy, as job includes occasional travel.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Frequently required to walk, sit, talk, and hear, including a requirement to stand or walk for extended periods of time, sometimes through uneven terrain.
• Often required to use hands/fingers, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms, climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Regularly able to lift/move up to 50 pounds.
• Must be able to be outdoors in various weather conditions for extended amounts of time.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to drive a vehicle legally and safely in the state of Ohio.
• Must maintain compliance/certification with CCHO's requirements for using physical restraints (SCM: Safe Crisis Management), including sufficient strength and completion of extensive training. Physical ability to respond to crisis, including, but not limited to running and performing physical restraints.

CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (CQI): All Agency staff are expected to focus on Quality improvement as a part of their job responsibilities, in an effort to make the Agency a safe and healing environment for clients and staff. This expectation includes, but is not limited to teamwork, improving service delivery, fulfilling department goals, and other job-specific tasks that encourage excellence.

Agency Leaders have the added expectation of creating and fostering an environment in which Quality Improvement is both encouraged and expected, and to accordingly hold staff accountable.