Behavioral Health Therapist

Performs intermediate-advanced human support work providing ongoing individual and group psychotherapy and addiction counseling services for clients, implementing policies and procedures to ensure the effective delivery of services and conforms to all regulations and statutes, conducting assessments, developing and implementation person-centered treatment plans, assessing crisis needs and providing client advocacy, and related work as apparent or assigned.  

1. Utilizes a trauma-informed approach to provide counseling services and/or addiction therapy to individuals and groups including crisis management.
2. Conducts diagnostic and DOT assessments including required paperwork.
3. Manages electronic health record entries including treatment plans, case notes, and discharges.
4. Participates in staffing and supervision; attends team meetings.
5. Assists with and coordinates the provision of services to clients in crisis or emergency situations as required; respond to crisis or emergency calls.
6. Participates in the after-hours mobile and on-call crisis system.
7. Serves as contact for the Health and Human Services Department relative to assigned external agencies, programs, or services and represents the department at professional meetings and community events as required.
8. Consults and receives supervision from other professional staff within the agency.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Performs other related functions and duties as assigned or required.

It is unlikely an employee will perform all the duties listed on a regular basis, nor is the list exhaustive in the sense it covers all the duties that an employee may be required to perform.  The examples are merely indicative, not restrictive. 

Thorough knowledge of County and department policies and procedures to include emergency and inclement weather policies; ability to prioritize and manage multiple, concurrent projects; attention to detail and ability to effectively organize time and anticipate, plan and successfully respond to changing circumstances; ability to provide counseling services to individuals and groups including crisis management; ability to conduct diagnostic and DOT assessments; ability to manages electronic health records; ability to make arithmetic computations using whole numbers, fractions and decimals; ability to operate and use standard office equipment; knowledge and ability to use standard office and position-specific software; ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, supervisors, other departments and the general public.

This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 25 pounds of force; work regularly requires speaking or hearing, frequently requires sitting and using hands to finger, handle or feel and occasionally requires standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, reaching with hands and arms, tasting or smelling and lifting; work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, operating machines and observing general surroundings and activities; work has no exposure to environmental conditions; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Exposure to bloodborne pathogens is considered low for this position.