Child & Adolescent Therapist/ Medical Case Manager - Elk Grove Village, IL, United States - Kenneth Young Center

Description

Child & Adolescent Therapist/ Medical Case Manager

At Kenneth Young Center, our staff come together with volunteers, community partners, and the people we serve to create holistic systems of care through interwoven behavioral health programs, older adult services, and community health initiatives.

Our team welcomes and celebrates unique perspectives, and represents the diversity and vitality of our local communities.

This role helps realize our mission:

We partner with communities to support people of all ages to navigate life's challenges through personalized prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery.

Join our team to grow in your career while building stronger, healthier communities.

Job Scope:

Join a diverse team of counselors and social workers providing mental health services in a collaborative and welcoming community outpatient setting.

Engage clients in individual, group, and family therapy aimed at increasing supporting clients in creating a life worth living and functioning independently in the community.

This team primarily serves children, adolescents, and young adult clients, but individual caseloads may also include adults. Provide initial screenings and mental health assessments that identify service needs and recommend options for care.

Involve client and their families in the development of treatment plan goals, objectives and interventions that address their assessed behavioral health needs.

Provide individual, family and group therapy services.

Provide coordinated care by initiating or participating in client centered consultation with other internal and external providers involved in care or services.

Assist in establishing effective communication between the Center, other social agencies serving clients, and the community
Performance Requirements
Work cooperatively with Childhood Services team members to assure clients timely access to quality services
Meet agency quality and compliance standard by accurately completing clinical documentation and service reporting in a timely manner.
Meet or exceed service productivity target.
Participation in Staff training and development seminars
Working cooperatively with other Center teams and programs to maintain smooth continuity of care when cases are shared across teams
Participate in supervision with Coordinator and in regular performance appraisals as directed

Masters degree from an accredited college or University in Social Work, Psychology or closely related discipline and be licensed or eligible for certification.

Must demonstrate knowledge in the areas of diagnostic assessment, long and short term treatment, family systems theory and group treatment
Must have basic computer and keyboarding skills

Exempt, Full Time, 37.Must be prepared to work a flexible schedule in response to the needs of the target population served.

This schedule includes evening hours and may include Saturday hours.
Kenneth Young Center offers a robust benefit package that is highly competitive to the market and offers all full-time employees the following:
Medical Insurance (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois - BCBS)
Dental (BCBS), and Vision Insurance (BCBS) with low employee premiums
Long Term and Short Term Disability (BCBS), no cost to employee
Flexible Spending Account (with annual rollover)
Opportunity for annual bonus and salary increase (discretionary based on annual KYC financial audit)

To further promote an active and healthy work/ life balance, KYC also offers a generous amount of paid time off and staff holidays.

8 Paid Organization-Wide Holidays
3 Personal Floating Holidays annually