Overview

We are looking for a skilled and empathetic adolescent mental health therapist that wants to make a difference and be part of an amazing and growing team located in San Martin, CA, just outside of San Jose, in the historic Santa Clara Valley, one of California's oldest wine growing regions. 

Join us at Embark at our Short-term Residential Treatment Program in San Martin, where therapists offer guidance and support to adolescents and their families that include multi-modal family system approaches to amplify and solidify change.

Serving teen girls and boys (gender fluid) ages 12 – 17, experiencing and struggling with school refusal, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, suicidal ideation and other mental health issues. Pre-teens and teens reside at our Residential Treatment Center in our comfortable family-style residence, where community and interpersonal relationships are fostered and encouraged. 

At Embark Behavioral Health, therapists will be advocating for client and family care through strong assessments and treatment planning, ongoing progress monitoring with detailed case management, community-based support, and robust aftercare planning. 

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Salary: $75,000 - $95,000

Schedule: Monday - Friday 9:00AM - 5:30PM 100% onsite position

Responsibilities

What does working with Embark offer you? www.embarkbh.com

As a therapist, you will enjoy the following:

• Access to professional growth using our leading-edge strategies and trainings with our exceptional leaders
• Opportunity to foster relationships with adolescents and their families, create joy in their lives, and heal generations.
• Join a team of nationally recognized industry leaders who provide you with a framework of training, support, and long-term advancement opportunities.

Embark and team members embrace the core values of empathy, trusting relationships, service, growth, and results. Responsibilities:

• Managing a caseload size of six (6) clients; we believe allows for you to build good rapport with clients and families for effective treatment and outcome results
• Provide individual, family and group therapy
• Parent coaching
• Case management and team management
• Crisis management / de-escalation
• Treatment planning
• Utilize assessment tools
• Utilization review
• Documentation in our electronic medical record

Qualifications

What do you bring to this position?

Required:

• (CALIFORNIA)Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) or Clinical Psychologist (PhD) or a related discipline OR Registered with the board as an associate, and in process of obtaining clinical hours toward licensure in the given field
• Desire to facilitate client growth through a team approach, working with other care providers.
• Desire to perform and develop counseling/therapeutic expertise in individual, family, and group therapy
• Ability to plan, implement, and adjust a course of treatment as required.
• Ability to pass a state background check

Preferred:

• Two (2) years of working experience as a therapist leading individual, family, and group therapy sessions
• One year of experience working in a high acuity setting (intensive out-patient, residential, psychiatric hospital, eating disorder clinic, substance abuse clinic, etc., using relational, experiential, and systemic modalities
• For associate therapists (prefer 1000 hours completed), but not required

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive Benefit Program that includes:

• Paid holidays, plus PTO accrual schedule
• Medical insurance with a generous company contribution towards a high deductible plan
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Voluntary life and AD&D insurance
• Long-term disability
• 401K with company matching
• Paid maternal leave
• Flexible Work Environment

Embark is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Embark is committed to enriching the therapeutic and healing experience it offers through the diversity of its employees and community. Embark seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse staff who will contribute to the organization's excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, and relevance in a global society.