Associate Therapist

BrightQuest Treatment Center in La Mesa, CA is hiring a Mental Health Therapist.

This position will be an onsite clinical position.

BrightQuest is an organization dedicated to providing highly specialized treatment serving individuals and families suffering from complex mental illness and co-occurring disorders. Our vision at BrightQuest is to provide best in class treatment founded on a therapeutic community model that provides a supportive environment for social skills development and reparative attachment experiences. Our mission is to provide hope, strength and inspiration for individuals and families suffering from mental health, co-occurring, and substance use disorders so that they can heal, transform their lives, and realize all the possibilities of a life in recovery. We value our employees and contractors, and our goal is to engage those who share our core values and our vision.

The primary goal of the Clinician is to provide exceptional clinical treatment services including assessment, treatment planning and therapy to clients. The clinician participates as a member of the Treatment Team and provides a unique perspective to the Team in an effort to provide the best and most well-rounded care for each of our clients.

Individual, Family,& Group Therapy:

• A case load of “Primary” clients, “Secondary” clients, as well families, will be assigned by the Clinical Leadership Team.
• In addition to therapy sessions, “Primary” duties include the provision of therapy, case management, coordination of auxiliary care, overseeing client schedules and therapeutic structures, development and management of the client’s treatment plan, and providing families with updates on how their loved one is doing in the program.

Active Participation in weekly Administrative, Clinical and Training meetings:

• Clinical record documentation - Documentation requirements will include writing and submitting progress notes and reports on a daily basis, completion of admission and discharge summaries and treatment plan updates, disciplinary and treatment recommendation letters, and supporting auxiliary and support staff with requisite documentation needs.
• Clinical coordination and consultation with other staff members, in person, by phone and/or by responding to/sending emails.
• Facilitating assessments.
• Exhibit General Psychotherapy Skills (Develop Effective Therapeutic Alliance, Effectively Gather Data, Exhibit Diagnostic-Analytic Skills).
• Utilize Intervention Skills (Maintain Working Alliance, Focus Therapy, Understand Personal Process Issues, Engage in Appropriate Crisis Intervention, Exhibit Case Management Skills).
• Demonstrate Skill in Various Treatment Settings/Modalities (Individual Therapy, Group Therapy, Family Therapy)
• Effective time management and adherence to time boundaries
• Thorough, succinct, and on-time with paperwork
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Masters Degree required
• Associates and/or Licensed clinicians strongly preferred.
• Experience with serious mental illness preferred
• Addiction and mental health preferred
• 3 years of clinical experience required, residential setting preferred
• Comprehensive treatment planning skills required
• Experience working with families
• Case management and discharge planning skills
• Computer typing skills and ability use various software programs
• Additional skills preferred include family therapy, CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, EMDR, and/or somatic experience therapy.
• Must be at least 18 years of age

Our Benefits

Sero Mental Health and its subsidiary companies are proud to offer full-time employees and their dependents enrollment in multi-level medical, dental, and vision health benefits with substantial employer premium contributions. Additionally, the company offers employer paid Life Insurance and AD&D, Long Term Disability, Paid Parental Leave, and Employee Assistance Plans. Employees can choose from a variety of voluntary benefits including Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Short Term Disability Coverage, Hospital Indemnity and Accident Plans, Critical Illness Coverage, and Legal Assistance. Furthermore, the company offers generous Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay.

Both full and part-time employees have the opportunity to enroll in the company’s 401(K) Retirement Plans with company match of 100% of the first 3% contributed and 50% of the next 2% contributed per paycheck. Employees contributing to their 401K plan are 100% vested immediately upon becoming eligible for the company match.

All benefits are effective the 1st of the month following 30 days of hire.

BrightQuest Treatment Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer (M/F/D/V).

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Salary : $73,000 - $80,000