Counselor-Children's Outpatient (Clinic based)

Salary: $73,000/annually

We offer:

• Medical (100% employer paid for employees only), Dental, Vision, Life, Short Term and Long-Term Disability.
• 5 days of PTO
• 11 Wellness Days- Including the week of Christmas off!
• 10 Paid Holidays

Do you envision working for a dynamic, mission-driven organization which supports the community while fostering an employee culture of appreciation and fun? If your answer is yes, than an employment opportunity at Directions for Living may be a great fit for you! We offer an excellent salary and benefits package to include employer paid health insurance premiums for all full time employees, PTO and paid company holidays, 403b retirement, EAP, and year-round employee wellness and appreciation initiatives.

The Children's Outpatient Clinic (COP) Counselor is a position providing clinical interventions directed at serving children, adolescents, and families, with mental health needs. The COP Clinic Counselor will be assigned to provide clinical services to youth and families with mental health or co-occurring mental health & substance abuse concerns. The COP Clinic Counselor will ensure that the counseling services being delivered are individualized, recovery-focused and allow individuals the opportunity to learn how to manage their own recovery and advocacy process. The COP Clinic Counselor will be a subject matter expert on counseling interventions that serve to enhance the development of recovery, natural supports, as well as coping and self-management skills. The COP Clinic Counselor will ensure that counseling services being provided emphasize personal safety, self-worth, confidence, growth, connection to the community, boundary setting, planning, self-advocacy, personal fulfillment, development of social supports, and effective communication. The COP Clinic Counselor will ensure that the counseling services provided emphasize the acquisition; development; expansion of rehabilitative skills needed to move forward in recovery. The COP Clinic Counselor that they collaborate with the other service providers, such as psychiatry, , Behavioral Health Case Managers, High Fidelity Wraparound Facilitators and Homeless Services. If the youth or family are not engaged in and need these other services, the COP Clinic Counselor will notify the program supervisor/director and help provide education on these services and help to coordinate initiation, as clinically appropriate. If these services are recommended, but the youth or family are not yet willing to engage, this should be documented in the service notes and the COP Clinic Counselor will be responsible for ensuring the completion of this documentation. This is a clinic-based position. COP Clinic Counselor is responsible for ensuring an annual client facing client care number of 1,410 hours annually. Achieving the minimum required weekly, monthly and annual client facing client care hours is an essential function of this positon.

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE/REQUIREMENTS:

1. Master's degree in Counseling, Psychology, Social Work or related field required.
2. Knowledge of DSM-IV and ICD-9 diagnostic codes.
3. Basic knowledge of psychotropic medications.
4. Must have sufficient clinical knowledge to provide clinical intervention with adults and children who manifest a range of psychopathology, utilizing various treatment approaches including individual, family play, and group therapy, individual psychopathology and normal childhood development.
5. Must have a willingness to learn approaches with which staff are less familiar as required.
6. Must acquire knowledge of community resources.

EOE/ADA/DFW/SMOKE FREE CAMPUS

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Salary : $72,800 - $73,000