Mental Health Therapist - Work with Youth!
Overview
*$2,000 sign-on bonus for this role*
Want to help improve the lives of youth in your community? Seneca is looking for a Mental Health Therapist dedicated to supporting our youth and families to achieve stability.
As a Mental Health Therapist in the Wraparound program, the primary role is to provide individual and if needed family therapy services to ensure that all parties are working together toward stability for the child and family. You will be working with a multidisciplinary team that ensuring all mental health needs are addressed. Services will be provided almost exclusively in the community: in families’ homes, group homes, foster homes, schools, etc.
ABOUT WRAPAROUND
Seneca offers intensive "Wraparound" services to children and youth at risk of placement in a high-level residential treatments or juvenile hall, and to their families. The Wraparound programs are strengths-based, family-driven, flexible, and creative, with the goal of helping the family develop the skills and supports to prevent or reduce the possibility of residential placement of their child. A family-based team addresses the needs of the entire family, not just the at-risk child. This family-based team consists of family members, Seneca's Care Coordinators, Youth counselors, Parent Partners, Permanency Specialist and other community members who have an important role in the family,
ABOUT SENECA
Seneca Family of Agencies is a non-profit with a simple but powerful mission: to help children and families through the most difficult times of their lives. Since then, Seneca has expanded to provide a broad continuum of permanency, mental health, education, and juvenile justice services, which today reach over 18,000 youth and families throughout California and Washington State each year. The agency’s growth has been guided by a commitment to our Unconditional Care® model – doing whatever it takes to help children and families thrive, even when faced with tremendous challenges. Seneca is committed to supporting historically underrepresented communities and informing agency policies and practices through its agency-wide DEI Initiative and DEI Advisory Board. Our agency’s values of love and compassion, hope and courage, respect, curiosity, joy, equity and justice anchor our work across all programs, ensuring our staff leverage the cultural strengths of the families and communities we serve. Seneca is committed to fostering an agency culture that is welcoming, cooperative, and inclusive of diverse peoples and worldviews.
Seneca supports clinicians towards licensure and beyond. We provide individual and group supervision, regular clinical case conferences, licensure and renewal courses led by field experts. Clinical stipend for expenses such as outside trainings or licensure fees. $4,000 salary increase upon getting licensed. Professional Development Scholarships to achieve certifications in areas such as CBT, DBT, EMDR, or Spanish for mental health practitioners.
Responsibilities
- Meet with clients and caregivers on a weekly basis to further treatment goals through individual and family therapy.
- Participates in most Child and Family Teams developed by the Wrap Social Worker/Care Coordinator/Facilitator.
- Cultivate and maintain relationships with community members and providers.
- Coordinate and implement overall treatment and services for assigned clients.
- Provide assistance in case planning and consultation to team members on clinical issues, as well as casework issues, as appropriate.
- Intervene with the clients’ behavior management programs as needed.
- Work with Wrap Social Worker on treatment planning, clinical assessment and diagnoses.
- Chart mental health notes, outcome measures, incident reports, and other documentation accurately and in a timely manner.
- Provide direction to treatment team on clinical issues, casework issues and written reports for each case
- Part of the Rapid Response Crisis on-call calendar
- Participate in individual and/or group supervision.
- Maintain professional behavior at all times, appropriately representing the Seneca mission and philosophy.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in psychology/social work/counseling.
- Must be eligible to register with California BBS.
- Experience working with children in home settings or in the community, a plus
- Bilingual (Spanish/English) abilities a plus!
- Strong organizational, writing, communication, and multi-tasking skills.
- Ability to work with a diverse population
- Valid CA Driver’s license, and insurable under Seneca Family of Agencies insurance policy.
- TB test clearance, fingerprinting clearance, and any other state/federal licensing or certification requirements.
- Proof of COVID-19 vaccination
Schedule
- Full-time
- Flexible schedule with ability to work evenings and weekend days as needed
Benefits
- Annual salary is $67,000 - $81,000 per year, with actual salary dependent on creditable experience above the minimum qualifications for the role.
- $4,000 salary increase upon licensure
- An additional compensation upon passing a bilingual language proficiency exam.
- $2000 sign-on bonus!
- Comprehensive employee benefits package:
- Medical, dental, vision, chiropractic, acupuncture, and fertility coverage.
- Long-term disability, family leave, and life insurance.
- 50% paid premiums for dependents.
- 403b retirement plan.
- Employer-Paid Assistance Plan.
- 5 weeks of flexible paid time off, 11 paid holidays
- Seneca supports clinicians toward licensure and beyond.
- We provide individual and group supervision, regular clinical case conferences, and licensure and renewal courses led by field experts.
- Expenses such as outside training or licensure fees can be mitigated through your clinical training stipend.
***Please apply directly through our website by clicking here!***
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