What are the responsibilities and job description for the Bilingual Child & Adolescent Therapist position at Kenneth Young Center?
Bilingual Child & Adolescent Therapist
You are key to our vision: Together We Thrive. At Kenneth Young Center, our staff come together with volunteers, community partners, and the people we serve to create holistic systems of care through interwoven behavioral health programs, older adult services, and community health initiatives. Our team welcomes and celebrates unique perspectives, and represents the diversity and vitality of our local communities. This role helps realize our mission: We partner with communities to support people of all ages to navigate life's challenges through personalized prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery. Join our team to grow in your career while building stronger, healthier communities.
Kenneth Young Center offers a robust benefit package that is highly competitive to the market and offers all full-time employees the following:
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403(b) plan with organizational matching
- Medical Insurance (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois - BCBS)
- Dental (BCBS), and Vision Insurance (BCBS) with low employee premiums
- Long Term and Short Term Disability (BCBS), no cost to employee
- Flexible Spending Account (with annual rollover)
- Basic life insurance (50k) paid for by the organization and option for additional voluntary coverage for self, spouse, or dependents (BCBS)
- Incentive program with potential for quarterly bonuses
- Opportunity for annual bonus and salary increase (discretionary based on annual KYC financial audit)
- Eligibility to participate in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)
To further promote an active and healthy work/ life balance, KYC also offers a generous amount of paid time off and staff holidays.
- 4 weeks of Paid Time Off (With increases based on seniority)
- 8 Paid Organization-Wide Holidays
- 3 Personal Floating Holidays annually
Job Scope: Child & Adolescent Therapists provide behavioral health services in an outpatient community based program serving individuals ages 3-24 years old and their families. Therapists will engage client/ families in treatment planning and motivational enhancement while planning evidence based services to most effectively attain the client’s/ family’s clinical goals. Specific team assignments and duties will be determined based on clinical expertise, experience, interest and credentials.
Responsibilities
- Provide initial screenings and mental health assessments that identify service needs and recommend options for care (only applicable to master’s level clinicians)
- Share assessment findings with clients and their families
- Involve client and their families in the development of treatment plan goals, objectives and interventions that address their assessed behavioral health needs
- Provide individual, family and group therapy services
- Provide case management services to assist clients and their families with access to needed benefits and services
- Provide coordinated care by initiating or participating in client centered consultation with other internal and external providers involved in care or services
- Reassess and review treatment progress with clients and their families at proscribed intervals
- Assist in establishing effective communication between the Center, other social agencies serving clients, and the community
- Translations
Performance Requirements
- Work cooperatively with Child & Adolescent Services team members to assure clients timely access to quality services
- Meet agency quality and compliance standard by accurately completing clinical documentation and service reporting in a timely manner
- Meet or exceed service productivity target
- Implement evidenced based practices to ensure use of effective and efficient treatment that best address client needs
- Participation in Staff training and development seminars
- Working cooperatively with other Center teams and programs to maintain smooth continuity of care when cases are shared across teams
- Become familiar with and utilization of outside resources as needed to provide comprehensive services to clients
- Participate in clinical supervision with C&A supervisor and in regular performance appraisals as directed
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or University in Counseling, Social Work, Psychology or closely related discipline, Master’s degree preferred
- Must have supervised experience in providing counseling and/or psychotherapy services
- Must demonstrate knowledge in the areas of diagnostic assessment, (only applicable to master’s level clinicians) long and short term treatment, family systems theory and group treatment
- Must have basic computer and keyboarding skills
Schedule
- Exempt, Full-Time, 37.5 hour work week
- Must work a flexible schedule in response to the needs of the target population served, including evening and Saturday hours.
Kenneth Young Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer
