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Primary Therapist

PrairieCare
Vista, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/23/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/18/2026
About Us

Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love—and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.

Empowering Lives. Restoring Families

Responsibilities

The Non-licensed Primary Therapist conducts assessments, develops treatment plans, facilitates individual, family, and group therapies, to clients with primary OCD and Anxiety Disorders. This position works within the framework of Exposure Response & Prevention (ERP) and Newport’s clinical model and provides clinical support to the program as needed.

Essential Duties

  • Facilitate individual, family, and group therapies within the framework of Newport Healthcare’s clinical model and ERP.
  • Facilitate individual exposure sessions daily, as well as weekly individual and family therapy.
  • Complete risk and OCD assessments and develop individualized safety plan upon admission, and biopsychosocial assessment and treatment plan with in timeline requirements.
  • Coordinate treatment goals and services in collaboration with client's treatment team, with 30- day treatment plan reviews and updates.
  • Complete documentation (assessments, treatment plans, progress, group notes, contact notes and discharge summaries) timely and according to established standards.
  • Facilitate new Family Orientations, Welcome Presentations, and Family Support Groups.
  • Conduct ongoing risk or crisis assessments and provide intervention/management as needed.
  • Attend weekly treatment team meetings, staff meetings, and clinical supervision.
  • Enter data accurately within Outlook (email and calendaring), EMR, and online learning.
  • Communicate, proactively, as the clinical point of contact with families.
  • Attend meetings, trainings, and conferences representing Newport Healthcare as needed.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in counseling, psychology, social work, or related field or enrollment in Doctorate program from an accredited or state approved graduate school required.
  • Board registered (APCC, LAPC, ASW, AMFT, MHCA) or Psychologic Associate in the state in which services are provided required.
  • Experience with individual, family, and/or group therapy with young adults/adolescents required.
  • Experience with mental health, OCD and anxiety disorders, preferred.
  • Willingness to be trained in ERP required.

Salary Range for this position is $32.31 - $44.42/ hour based on education and experience.

Benefits Include

Medical/Dental/Vision

Company Paid Life Insurance

Voluntary STD/LTD

Flexible Spending Accounts

Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.

For more information on Equal Opportunity, please click here Equal Employment Opportunity Posters

Salary : $32 - $44

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