Child and Adolescent Therapist - MI Ave

Are you looking for an opportunity to work in a caring and community focused environment? At Covenant Community Care a faith-based, charitable, non-profit Community Health Center, providing medical, dental, and counseling health care services to the people of Metro Detroit. As a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), we offer integrated health care services to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay.

We are currently looking to add a Child and Adolescent Therapist to our counseling team to help us serve the local community. We work in an integrated environment along with our medical team as well as outpatient care. We are excited to include this service and to bring an enthusiastic person into this caring and supportive environment.

As a therapist at Covenant Community Care, you will be responsible for the following:

• Provide counseling to children and adolescents
• Provide parent education, coaching and training.
• Advocate on behalf of the child and family to assist them in meeting their needs and reaching their desired level of self-sufficiency.
• Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to help in recognizing, treating, and managing mental health, substance use and psychosocial issues as appropriate.
• Support patients in their health goals, including, treatment compliance, sleep, coping with persistent health issues, or other.
• Conduct mental health and substance use screening; provides referrals as clinically appropriate. Referrals may include psychiatry, housing, basic needs or other.
• Provide psychoeducation to patients and their families concerning mental health and substance use issues.
• Provide assessments, treatment plans and evidence based therapeutic treatment for patients in individual, family or group settings. These visits may be in an integrated or outpatient setting.
• Document the patients’ progress and diagnostic information in the treatment chart.
• Communicate patient progress with the care team as appropriate.
• Maintain confidentiality of patient health information in accordance with HIPAA, 42 CFR part 2 and other applicable regulations.
• Cover other behavioral health provider’s patients as needed
• Maintain compliance with MI Licensing, including completing continuing education as required.
• Uphold the Mission of Covenant “To show and share the love of God as seen in the Good News of Jesus Christ by providing integrated, affordable and quality health care to those who need it most.”
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Master's degree in social work or related field
• Current valid professional licensure in the State of Michigan (LMSW)
• English/Spanish language preferred.
  
  
  

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES:

• Ability to function effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team with active listening and social perceptiveness
• Ability to maintain professionalism and confidentially working with a sensitive patient population
• Service oriented
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good Judgement and ability to make decisions independently
• Organized, dependable and able to efficiently prioritize work
• Resourceful with community networking and the ability to speak on behalf of Covenant Community Care, its mission and values
• Comfortable working with a variety of ages
• Computer competent
• Spanish-English Bilingual is a plus
  
  
  

Job Type: Full-time

At Covenant we offer our employees:

• Comprehensive Benefit program
• Vacation, Sick, and Personal time (VSP)
• Paid holidays
• 401K
• Life insurance, long term and short term disability
• Potential for up to $50,000 in loan repayment through the National Health Service Corps (NHSC)
• Loan Repayment as a Federally Qualified Health Center
  
  
  

Apply at our company website: www.covenantcommunitycare.org

All candidates must successfully complete a criminal background check, TB test, and education and licensure credentialing as part of the hiring process.