School-Based Behavioral Health Therapists

Job Qualifications

Master’s degree in Social Work, or Counseling with an LSW/LISW or LPC/LPCC in good standing in the state of Ohio
A valid driver’s license in the State of Ohio with access to an insured vehicle for client transportation. Must not have a 6-point violations and ability to obtain and maintain bodily injury/property coverage of $100,000/$300,000
Work Location: Community-Based

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

Collaborate with school personnel to identify students needing behavioral health services and facilitate the referral process.
Contact and meet parents/caregivers of children who have been referred for behavioral health services for the purpose of intake, consent to treat, and psychiatric diagnostic evaluations.
Provide individual counseling, therapeutic behavioral support, parent guidance and family interventions.
Provide group counseling/therapeutic behavioral support/prevention groups as needed.
Integrate behavioral health with the client’s health needs and refer for appropriate medical, dental, psychiatric and other psychosocial service needs.
Responsible for the timely completion of clinical documentation in accordance with applicable licensing and accreditation regulations and standards.
Meet productivity expectations.
Opportunity to become trained in Early Child Mental Health screenings, assessment/diagnosis, and provision of community-based consultation and/or therapeutic services during summer months with youth (0-5) and their families.

Other Job Duties & Responsibilities

Other duties as assigned.

Core Competencies

Interpersonal Skills & Communication: demonstrated emotional intelligence with an ability to balance an empathy forward response with families and throughout the organization. Enjoys working closely with other people to understand their concerns and seeks out the ways our workplace might address them. Able to use storytelling to advance a concept or idea.
Professionalism: Confidence, articulation, ability to receive criticism and feedback well, ability to resolve conflicts.
Organization & Time Management: Organizes work, effectively prioritizes, and sets short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them. Aligns communication, people, processes and resources to drive success. Organizes information and data to identify/explain trends, problems, and their causes.
Teamwork & Collaboration: Contributes to common goal, maintains open communication with team members, asks for help when necessary, encourages involvement.
Diversity & Inclusion: Self-aware, attentive listener, people-oriented, cognizant of bias, cultural intelligence; demonstrating a respect for divergent viewpoints; an awareness of and sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the population served, thereby contributing to an environment that is equitable, inclusive, and cooperative.
Flexibility: Adapts effectively to change by accepting changes in processes readily and with an optimistic perspective of the resulting benefits; readily accepts new technology as part of his/her job and uses it to continually improve efficiency or the quality of his/her work products.

Wellbeing and Benefits

Providing quality benefits to our staff is important to us. Just as important is our staff’s well-being. That’s why we offer a number of choices to meet the different needs of our staff.

Choice of medical and dental plans
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Account for Health and Dependent Care
Vision
Support for continuing education and credential renewal
Life Insurance
Retirement Savings (401k) with a company contribution
457(b) Savings
Mental Health Support
Employee Assistance Program
Calm Subscription
Short and Longterm Disability