What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mental Health Professionals position at FRIENDSHIP HOUSE?
Provide intensive family based services as a team member with a behavioral health worker in an effort to prevent out of home placement and improve family relations. Services are delivered primarily in the family’s home and include: individual, family and group therapy; assessments; service coordination; and crisis prevention/intervention.
- Provide initial and on-going comprehensive assessments of identified families and youth
- Provide individual, family, and group therapy with identified families using eco-systemic structural family therapy model.
- Work collaboratively with assigned mental health worker team member to provide comprehensive services and linkages.
- Provide 24/7 crisis coverage on a rotating basis.
- Deliver services in a manner convenient to families, this includes evening and weekend service provision.
- Consult with psychiatrist on a regular basis and attend psychiatric appointments with the youth and family.
- Collaborate on a regular basis with all systems involved with the youth and family
- Provide ongoing role modeling and skill building to families.
- Provide case management services as needed.
- Attend and participate in required eco-systemic family therapy trainings in addition to required state and local trainings.
- Demonstrate commitment to learning and practicing the eco-systemic structural family therapy model, by bringing videotaped sessions to supervision, utilization of genograms, eco-maps, and structural maps.
- Complete all documentation in a timely, comprehensive and legible manner and in accordance with Friendship House policies and procedures.
- Contribute to any quality improvement/outcome measurement tracking and data gathering as assigned.
- Perform duties in a professional manner in response to clients, co-workers, and situations in which own values are challenged.
- Other duties as assigned.
Master’s degree in social work, counseling, marriage and family or psychology from an accredited college or university.
2 years’ experience working with children & families.
Salary : $23 - $28