Part Time Mental Health Therapist
Job Summary
The part time Mental Health Therapist participates in the clinical team by providing in office and telehealth counseling to our adult and youth clients. This position offers flexible hours with a minimum commitment of 20 hours a week. The successful candidate maintains a therapeutic relationship with clients on his/her team in meeting the biopsychosocial needs of the client and collaborate with the treatment team to provide holistic whole person care to the client.
About The Centers & Circle Health Services
The Centers & Circle Health Services are one of the oldest and largest health and human services organizations in Northeast Ohio, serving more than 30,000 people across Northeast Ohio each year. Together, the organizations are leading the way in providing an innovative and integrated model towards a common goal: creating life-changing solutions for those we serve to lead healthier and more successful lives. Utilizing a progressive, interdisciplinary team approach that includes psychiatry, primary care, pharmacy and more, offers our staff a unique opportunity to be an integral part of the health & wellness team, consisting of psychiatrists, family physicians, nurse practitioners, clinical pharmacists and social workers.We are an inclusive, anti-racist, multicultural oriented team representative of the communities we serve.Together, the organizations are leading the way in providing an innovative and integrated model towards a common goal: fighting for equity by healing, teaching, and inspiring individuals and families to reach their full potential.
Qualifications
- Education: Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling or related field preferred.
- Licensure: Requires a social work or counselor license recognized by the state of Ohio – i.e. LSW, LPC, MFT, LISW, LPCC or IMFT.
The Benefits
Providing quality benefits to our staff is important to us. Just as important is our staff’s well-being. That’s why we offer a number of choices from medical to dental to vision plans to meet the different needs of our staff. We support our staff’s financial well-being by providing employer paid long-term disability, a very competitive defined contribution towards retirement and access to a financial advisor when you need it. We have nutrition and fitness coaches available for consultation. We also have a generous time off program as well as other benefits we can share with you based on your individual interests.
We are a National Health Service Corps site. You may be eligible to receive substantial assistance towards paying off your student loan debt. To learn more visit https://bhw.hrsa.gov/funding/apply-loan-repayment#nhsclrp
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Intake screening and orientation for new clients and guardians when applicable
- Providing mental health counseling using evidence based and trauma informed approaches of care
- Provide crisis intervention as necessary to enhance and restore functioning.
- Participate in coordination of care with a multi-disciplinary treatment team
- Provided group counseling as needed
- Meet or exceed agency required productivity and documentation standards
- 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
Physical Demands/Work EnvironmentThis job operates in a professional office environment and the community. This role routinely uses standard office equipment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak and hear. The employee is frequently required to sit for extended periods of time, stand, walk, use hands and fingers, and reach with hands and arms. It requires the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary. This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of The Centers. Since no position description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholder's responsibility.
The Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Other details
- Pay Type Salary
- Gordon Square Health Center, 5209 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America