Therapeutic Counselor - Children and Youth Program

***$2,500 Sign-On Bonus***

HOPE is an HRSA supported health center!
Licensed therapist can receive up to $50,000 of student loan forgiveness!

Come Grow with Us! HOPE Community Services is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC) that provides comprehensive mental health services to the South Oklahoma City Community. We are very excited about the opening of our new building and continual growth of our Children and Youth Department! We are currently looking for a therapeutic counselor to join our team and help us provide quality services to children, youth, and families in the community. 

SUMMARY  

Provides individual, family, and group counseling, assessment, crisis intervention, linkage and referral services for children and youth clients and their families by performing the following duties. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned. 

• Adheres to agency policy and procedures, as found in the Forms Locked Drive on each computer.  Also adheres to CARF and DMHSAS standards and criteria, federal and state confidentiality rules and regulations, and any special funding source requirements including Medicaid and HCA regulations. 
• Supports and promotes a service environment for individuals in need of behavioral health and/or co-occurring services that are recovery focused, welcoming, and attentive to the needs of individuals who may have experienced trauma in their lives.  Attends annual core competencies training in relationship to individuals with co-occurring disorders or who have experienced trauma in their lives.  
• Establishes and maintains professional working relationships with supervisor and peers.  Can effectively work within a team or group setting cohesively. 
• Monitors eligibility status and makes application for Social Security, Title XIX (Medicaid), QMB, and other benefits the client may qualify for and seeks to assist eligible clients in the Health Home Services or Systems of Care. 
• Maintains up-to-date address, phone number, contact persons, and financial information on all clients.  
• Establishes rapport with clients/families, assesses client/ family needs; organizes, plans, and delivers face-to-face client services; and conducts follow up on the outcome of services provided.  
• May conduct intakes on new admissions to the agency and assessing for appropriate service needs.  
• Provides clinical assessments, evaluations, treatment plans, crisis intervention, referrals and linkage with internal and external resources.  
• Provides individual, family and group counseling to assist clients in gaining insight into personal and interactive problems.  
• Assist clients in developing an individualized recovery plan that focuses on personal and interactive problems, age-appropriate independent living skill needs, defining goals, and plan of action reflecting interests, abilities, and needs.  
• Incorporates the entire family, to the extent possible, in the treatment program and focused on their strengths as well as the child/youth’s age and cultural heritage.  
• Provide a system of care that is child-centered with the needs of the child and family dictating the types and mix of services provided.  
• Assists clients in finding and accessing community resources needed to maintain independent functioning.  Assists in preventing an out-of-home placement.  
• Provide various therapeutic interventions as needed to assist consumers in identifying and overcoming barriers in their lives that may hinder them from reaching their goals.  
• Teach and assist in development of problem solving and coping skills.  
• Provide therapeutic services that are recovery focused, co-occurring capable, age and developmentally appropriate, culturally competent, welcoming, and attentive to the needs of the individual who may have experienced trauma in their lives.  
• Responsible for maintaining strictest confidentiality guidelines for interactions regarding consumer and family information. 
•  Provides a minimum of 85 hours billable services with consumers per month.  
• Utilizes the philosophy of Collaborative/Therapeutic Documentation to meet clinical record keeping documentation standards and ensure documentation is completed with the Consumer to the extent possible and all documentation is completed on the same day of the date of service. 
• Responsible for seeking out supervisory assistance for additional training and to enhance skill set as needed.   
• Interacts with other professionals to discuss therapy or treatment, new resources or techniques, and to share information.  
• Reports and documents services in accordance with agency policy and procedures.  Adheres to HOPE policy and procedure of having documentation completed by the end of the next business day.  
• May be required to participate in providing on-call services and carry on-call cell phone for after-hours contact.  
• May be required to work evening and weekend hours.  
• May be required to provide services in a community setting.  
• May be required to provide client transportation using personal vehicle or agency owned van or small bus.  
• Performs other related duties as assigned. 

QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE  

Current license (LPC, LMFT, LCSW, LADC, etc.) in Oklahoma; or Master’s degree in psychology, social work, or related field and eligible for licensure supervision. 

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS  

Professional license is preferred (LPC, LCSW, LMFT, LADC, etc.); Masters degree in psychology, social work or related field and eligible for licensure supervision. 

Required to complete, Therapeutic Options or approved safety training and annual updates. 

May be required to obtain and maintain First Aid and/or CPR Certifications. 

In order to provide client transportation in private or agency vehicles, must possess current, valid Oklahoma license, and meet HOPE insurance requirements.  HOPE will annually obtain copy of Motor Vehicle Record from the Department of Public Safety. 

EOE Statement 

At HOPE, we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.  Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the community we serve.  We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer.