Provide mental health assessment and intervention, conducting both individual and family therapy for children in the residential treatment program and day students at the on-campus school.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provide initial assessment of the child’s mental health functioning and assessment of their family support system
• Provide conjoint psychotherapy sessions to the child and members of their family support system
• Work closely with an interdisciplinary team and attend necessary meetings to facilitate continuity of care
• Maintain effective communication and relationships with ECH Case Manager, teachers, educational director, and other therapists of each child on caseload
• Complete documentation of therapy progress notes in a timely manner
• Submit necessary documentation for billing purposes within the designated time frame
• Write assessments and treatment plans, treatment summaries, and provide court reports on family progress when requested
• Provide monthly summaries, during Service Plan Review Meetings, of treatment goals being worked on and outcomes achieved
• Maintain a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and client-responsive approach to therapeutic service delivery
• Maintain and meet all requirements for both State Licensure and ECH training expectations including initial hire trainings and on-going annual training expectations
• Serve as the "on-call" or "on-duty" clinician on a rotating basis and as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities
• This position is responsible for supervising the Residential Aftercare Specialist position. This is specifically intended to help bridge the gap between the residential program and the families or community placement providers that clients are returning to.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in social work, Counseling, Psychology, Family Therapy, or other related social services field is required
• State of Missouri clinical license and/or registration in Social Work (LCSW), Counseling (LPC), or Marriage and Family Therapy (LMFT)
• A minimum of (2) years providing individual and/or family therapy or counseling to children, adolescents, and families
• Preference given to past experience providing parent coaching, parent training or classes and working with families involved in the foster or adoptive care systems

The position is primarily office-based with therapy sessions being conducted either in-person or virtually through telehealth video calls with external family support members. Therapy sessions may be held in the school environment, therapy office, or other appropriate space on the agency’s primary campus.

Trauma-Informed Core Values
Safety: Ensuring physical and emotional safety
Trustworthiness: Maximizing trustworthiness, making tasks clear and maintaining appropriate boundaries
Choice: Prioritizing developmentally appropriate choice and control for children, youth, families and adults
Collaboration: Maximizing collaboration and sharing of power with children, youth, families, and adults
Empowerment: Prioritizing child, youth, family and adult empowerment and skill building Responsible for being trauma aware, sensitive and responsive to youth, families and colleagues through the completion of new hire and annual trauma informed education/training