What are the responsibilities and job description for the Licensed Mental Health Therapist position at Alert Mind Mental Health Services LLC?
Overview
Join our private mental health team as a Licensed Mental Health Therapist (LMSW, LCSW, LPC, LFT, LMFT) and help clients build practical paths toward improved well-being. You’ll provide compassionate, evidence-based care across individual, family, and group settings, adapting your approach to each client’s needs. Your impact: Thoughtful assessment and treatment planning help clients and families access focused support and make progress toward their care goals.
Duties
- Conduct intake, mental health assessments, and diagnostic evaluations; develop and update treatment plans.
- Provide psychotherapy, clinical counseling, child and family counseling, grief and addiction counseling, and trauma-focused care, including cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing.
- Deliver crisis intervention, crisis management, behavior management, case management, and direct support; coordinate patient care with relevant providers.
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation, medical records, and electronic medical records (EMR); follow Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements, clinical documentation standards, ethical guidelines, and International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding practices.
- Provide telehealth therapy and individual or group counseling; contribute to research, data collection, and clinical research as appropriate.
Experience
- Required: Current license to practice mental health therapy in the applicable jurisdiction and strong clinical counseling, assessment, treatment planning, and documentation skills.
- Preferred: Experience with children, pediatrics, youth, families, developmental disabilities, autism, disabilities, co-occurring disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and inpatient, outpatient, hospital, or clinic settings.
- Additional approaches or populations may include behavioral therapy, applied behavior analysis, special education, psychodynamic, art or dance therapy, chronic pain, geriatrics, gender issues, and Christian counseling.
- Familiarity with telehealth, medical terminology, psychopharmacology, CPT coding, ICD-9 and ICD-10, and clinical research is valued.
Pay: $50.00 - $70.00 per hour
Expected hours: 10.0 – 20.0 per week
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Newark, DE 19711
Salary : $50 - $70