Mental Health Therapist jobs at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - 4284 jobs

Full-Time 1924 Landstown Centre Way Mental Health/Behavioral Health Days/Evenings 27.6900 Through 41.5300 * The Mental Health Therapist (Master's Level) is responsible for conducting mental health assessments and providing evidence-based therapies to patients and their families under the supervision of a licensed clinician. Reports to the Mental Health Therapy Manager. * ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES * Conducts mental health evaluations to identify mental health symptoms and psychosocial stressors and/or supports to include chronic illness, trauma, disability, primary support group, educational experiences, social environment, legal system and other psychosocial or environmental factors. * Develops an individualized treatment plan to address identified diagnoses and symptoms. * Provides evidenced based therapies to children with mental health diagnoses and co-occurring acute or chronic illness, trauma, or disability. * Completes comprehensive evaluations for review by the broader treatment team (such as treating MD referral source). * Completes psychosocial evaluations, progress notes and individualized treatment plans in accordance with the established best practice and third party guidelines. * Evaluates children and adolescents at risk for harm to self or others in order to determine the appropriate level of care and facilitates admission to inpatient psychiatric facilities and/or referrals to other community mental health services, as appropriate. * Obtains outcome measures, through use of psychometric tools in order to track clinical trends and share data on patient progress with collaborating physicians. * Leads coordination efforts with patients' medical care providers in order to ensure seamless integration of medical and mental health care. * Runs evidence based groups as a co-facilitator. * May participate in on-call phone skills coaching as needed. * Performs other duties as assigned. * LICENSES AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS * Must be in the process of working towards clinical hours of a current Virginia clinical license (Licensed Clinical Social Work or Licensed Professional Counselor). * MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS * Graduate of an accredited college or university with a Master's degree in Social Work, Counseling, Mental Health and/or related fields. * One to two years of related work experience preferred (including internship) and approval letter toward clinical supervision. * Experience with implementing evidence-based treatments with children and families in both individual and group treatment modalities preferred. * Exceptional interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills necessary. * Ability to work as a multidisciplinary team member. * Position may require occasional travel to offsite locations. * Increased Security Clearance Required for Job Role in Medical Tower II: FBI fingerprinting, criminal background check, and Child Protective Services registry search. * WORKING CONDITIONS * Normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature and the like. * PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS * Click here to view physical requirements.