Mental Health Therapist

Georgia Families in Transition is looking for individuals to join our CORE Team!

The CORE Therapist position is focused on providing individual/family mental health counseling using evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches of care for children, adolescents, and adults.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Providing individual/family mental health counseling using evidence based and trauma informed approaches of care.
• Commitment to providing consistent, ongoing services to clients.
• Provide crisis intervention as necessary to enhance and restore functioning.
• Participate in coordination of care with a multi-disciplinary treatment team
• Meet or exceed agency required productivity and documentation standards
• Some travel; job can be performed remotely (will be discussed – case by case)
• Other duties as assigned

Core Competencies

• Interpersonal Skills & Communication: demonstrated emotional intelligence with an ability to balance an empathy forward response with families and throughout the organization. Enjoys working closely with other people to understand their concerns and seeks out the ways our workplace might address them. Able to use storytelling to advance a concept or idea.
• Professionalism: Confidence, articulation, ability to receive criticism and feedback well, ability to resolve conflicts.
• Organization & Time Management: Organizes work, effectively prioritizes, and sets short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them. Aligns communication, people, processes and resources to drive success. Organizes information and data to identify/explain trends, problems, and their causes.
• Teamwork & Collaboration: Contributes to common goal, maintains open communication with team members, asks for help when necessary, encourages involvement
• Diversity & Inclusion: Self-aware, attentive listener, people-oriented, cognizant of bias, cultural intelligence; demonstrating a respect for divergent viewpoints; an awareness of and sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the population served, thereby contributing to an environment that is equitable, inclusive, and cooperative.
• Flexibility: Adapts effectively to change by accepting changes in processes readily and with an optimistic perspective of the resulting benefits; readily accepts new technology as part of his/her job and uses it to continually improve efficiency or the quality of his/her work products

Requirements

• Minimum of a Master’s degree in a psychology/social work/human services-related discipline
• Must be at least license eligible
• Fully licensed LPC, LCSW, LMFT preferred, but not required
• Past experience with Sharenote preferred, but not required
• Must be able to pass DBHDD background check (required prior to providing any services to clients)
• State-mandated training: Relias, CPR/First Aid, CPI, CANS/ANSA (must be completed within the first 30 days of hire)
• Knowledge of Medicaid/CMO compliance requirements preferred
• Demonstrable knowledge of DSM-5 diagnosis criteria
• Willingness to learn new documentation and clinical skills
• Receptivity to feedback/constructive criticism

Individuals who are prompt in communication, have collaborative personalities, and demonstrate a passion and knowledge for mental health and human services will be considered.

*Must live in the Atlanta area to be considered.
*Telehealth services may be provided due to the pandemic for the time-being but must be willing to see clients face-to-face if urgent needs arise or Medicaid rescinds pandemic telehealth services.
*Full-time preferred, but willing to consider part-time candidates willing to take on a caseload of at least 10 ongoing clients.

(Georgia – Atlanta Metropolitan Area)

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract

Pay: $27.00 – $50.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
Telehealth/remote work available during the pandemic.

Education:

• Master’s (Required)

Experience:

• Behavioral health: 1 year (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)

License/Certification:

• Driver’s License (Required)

Work Location: On the road