In-Home Youth Therapist - Cherry Hill, United States - The Thrive Network

Description

• Provides direct service to children, adolescents, and families.
• Identifies and intervenes with the needs of abused and neglected children and adults.
• Completes intake and assessment, providing complete and accurate information necessary for treatment and billing.
• Designs and implements treatment plans that promote healthy attachment, self-regulation, independence, impulse-control, decision-making skills, and social responsibility/empathy.
• Works collaboratively with other team members who are supporting the clients including but not limited to: education, care managers, behavioral assistants, clinicians, physicians, etc.
• Provides telephone counseling for emergencies both during office hours and outside of office hours for clients.
• Attends monthly staff meetings.

• Must possess a master's degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or related field.
• Must hold valid, current NJ license (LCSW, LPC, LSW, LMFT, LAC).
• Two or more years of experience in counseling children.
• Three or more years of experience in mental health.
• Experience in providing treatment to individuals with serious emotional problems.
• Ability to effectively use DSM.
• Must possess a driver's license and access to reliable transportation (vehicle must be documented by the agency to be insured and registered).
• Ability to make sound clinical judgments and to follow and give complex directions.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

• Have an understanding of child development, as well as individual and family functioning.
• Have experience in providing child abuse treatment.
• Have background and experience in expressive/art therapy, and/or play therapy (filial, theraplay, child-centered, PCIT, MIM relationship assessment, DIR Floortime, TFCBT, PCRT, ACT, Ecosystemic).

• Good computer skills; familiarity with smartphone applications.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work cooperatively as a team member.
• Knowledge and sensitivity to cultural differences.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as assessments and procedure manuals.
• Must consent to and pass a criminal background check.
• Must comply with all HIPAA (confidentiality) laws as it relates to Protected Health Information.
• Must be reliable, punctual, organized, and a self-starter.
• Must be creative, enthusiastic, and a team player.

• Medical (F/T Only)
• 401K
• Dental
• Life Insurance
• Supervision
• Life Insurance
• Telemedicine