Open Positions:
Behavioral Health Therapist - Full Time
Families Plus is a mental health specialty clinic in Delta County Colorado, leading the state with innovative systems-of-care treatments for children who are experiencing behavior challenges and are living in families with resources insufficient to meet their needs. Families Plus provides wraparound services for youth and their families, through Therapists, Parent Partners, Youth Partners, an Outreach Team, active board members, and volunteer mentors. Behavioral Health Therapists not only oversee treatment for children and youth with complex needs, but also provide psychotherapy for community members seeking behavioral health care from Families Plus.
Each Therapist is a licensed or near-licensure mental health care professional. Their duties are as follows:
1. Provide individual and family therapy to children and youth using best evidence based practices.
Momentum Health Plus Community Clients.
The Behavioral Health Therapist is employed by Families Plus to provide brief episodes of office-based individual or family treatment for clients from the community in the companion Momentum Health Plus Clinic. These treatment courses are typically 8 to 12 sessions. Each treatment course is designed to address a specific behavioral or emotional need that is interfering with the individual’s ability to function at that time. Treatments include assessment followed by individual psychotherapy, couple’s therapy, and family therapy.
Pay: $52,000.00 - $62,000.00 per year
COVID-19 considerations:
All employees and clients are required to wear face masks and practice social distancing in the office. Some meetings can be held remotely.
Please apply via LinkedIn using this link.
Each Therapist is a licensed or near-licensure mental health care professional. Their duties are as follows:
1. Provide individual and family therapy to children and youth using best evidence based practices.
- Assess behavioral health needs of youth
- Provide intermittent individual and family therapist as needed
- Coordinate and lead all individuals supporting the participating child
- Lead Change if child had academic or behavioral problems
- Establish comfortable rapport with participating family members
- Train and supervise the Parent Partner working alongside the therapist on each case. Parent partners are assistants to the therapist to help families develop and access needed resources and services
- Train and match Mentoring Families in Delta County
- Intake and match children in need
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation
- Phone contact, email exchange, text message exchange, letter exchange with natural parents at least biweekly
- Communicate with the mentoring family at least once a month to maintain the match so that it is healthy and helpful to the child
- Communicate with school personnel at least once a month or more if there are school challenges for the child
- Check Powerschool regularly; at least once a month if there are not particular challenges
- Communicate as frequently as necessary if problems exist in the mentoring family match or with either of the families
- Communicate with and help other volunteers supporting the child, including the child’s teachers and school personnel
- Oversee collection and appropriate use of education information from the school that the child attends
- Create a note in Electronic Health Record for each contact that involves a back and forth exchange and sign notes regularly
- Maintain documentation up to state standards
Momentum Health Plus Community Clients.
The Behavioral Health Therapist is employed by Families Plus to provide brief episodes of office-based individual or family treatment for clients from the community in the companion Momentum Health Plus Clinic. These treatment courses are typically 8 to 12 sessions. Each treatment course is designed to address a specific behavioral or emotional need that is interfering with the individual’s ability to function at that time. Treatments include assessment followed by individual psychotherapy, couple’s therapy, and family therapy.
- Schedule and provide high quality individual, couples, and family therapy for members of the Delta County Community who seek behavioral health care from Families Plus
- Complete accurate and timely documentation of all contacts and also assessment, treatment, and discharge plans as required by Medicaid rules for all clients
- Provide 24 hour emergency coverage to clients and arrange another therapist for backup when you will be unavailable
- Work with business staff to provide any additional information needed to accomplish billing and collection in a timely manner
- Master’s Degree in Counseling or related field
- Valid Colorado Driver’s License
- License to practice psychotherapy in the state of Colorado or candidate for licensure
- Experience in the human service field
- Availability to communicate with families during evenings and weekends during periods of crisis
- Comfortable working with parents, youth, and adolescents
- Experience with treating individual who also have substance abuse
- Has own, reliable transportation
- Passes background checks
Pay: $52,000.00 - $62,000.00 per year
COVID-19 considerations:
All employees and clients are required to wear face masks and practice social distancing in the office. Some meetings can be held remotely.
Please apply via LinkedIn using this link.
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