Mental Health Therapist (Master's Level)

Childrens Hospital of The King's Daughters • Williamsburg, VA • 6d ago

GENERAL SUMMARY

The Mental Health Therapist (Master's Level) is responsible for conducting mental health assessments and providing evidence-based therapies to patients and their families under the supervision of a Licensed Mental Health Therapist. Reports to department leadership.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Conducts mental health evaluations to identify mental health symptoms and psychosocial stressors and/or supports to include chronic illness, trauma, disability, primary support group, educational experiences, social environment, legal system and other psychosocial or environmental factors.

Develops an individualized treatment plan to address identified diagnoses and symptoms.

Provides evidenced based therapies to children with mental health diagnoses and co-occurring acute or chronic illness, trauma, or disability.

Completes comprehensive evaluations for review by the broader treatment team (such as treating MD referral source).

Completes psychosocial evaluations, progress notes and individualized treatment plans in accordance with the established best practice and third-party guidelines.

Evaluates children and adolescents at risk for harm to self or others to determine the appropriate level of care and facilitates admission to inpatient psychiatric facilities and/or referrals to other community mental health services, as appropriate.

Obtains outcome measures, through use of psychometric tools to track clinical trends and share data on patient progress with collaborating physicians.

Leads coordination efforts with patients' medical care providers to ensure seamless integration of medical and mental health care.

Runs evidence-based groups as a co-facilitator.

May participate in department on-call as needed.

Performs all other duties as assigned.

LICENSES AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

Required Licenses and/or Certifications

Must be in the process of working towards clinical hours of a current Virginia clinical license (Licensed Clinical Social Work or Licensed Professional Counselor).
Must complete all licensure requirements within 3 years.
Must complete all training requirements that is determined by department leadership, including MATCH and any other evidence-based trainings offered.

Preferred Licenses and/or Certifications
None preferred.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

Required Education and Experience
Master's degree in Social Work, Counseling or Mental Health required.
6 months of therapy and assessment experience required.

Preferred Education and Experience
One to two years of related work experience preferred (including internship) and approval letter toward clinical supervision.
Experience with implementing evidence-based treatments with children and families in both individual and group treatment modalities preferred.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Exceptional interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills necessary.
Ability to work as a multidisciplinary team member.
Position may require occasional travel to offsite locations.
Increased Security Clearance Required for Job Role in Children's Pavilion: FBI fingerprinting, criminal background check, Child Protective Services registry search and National Sex Offender.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature and the like.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Click here to view physical requirements. (https://www.chkd.org/uploadedFiles/Documents/Employees/Category%20B%20Jobs.pdf )

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