Associate Counselor

Job Title: Associate Counselor

Location: Kansas City, MO

Department: Recovery Services Youth

Employment Type: Full-time

Shift: 8:00am – 5:00pm CST

Job Summary:

Are you a passionate and dedicated mental health professional looking to make a positive impact in the lives of children and adolescents? Do you want to work in a supportive and dynamic environment where you can grow your skills and advance your career? Join our team at Burrell Behavioral Health as an Associate Counselor in the Kansas City, Missouri area!

Welcome aspiring minds to a realm of limitless curiosity and ceaseless evolution, guided by Associate Counselors – a collective of fervently committed professionals vested in sculpting brighter tomorrows through the chiseling away of present constraints. Rooted in foundational scholarship, steeped in mentorship, and burnished by frontline experience, our vibrant cadre of associates stands prepared to join forces with seekers yearning for breakthroughs, resolution, and empowerment.

Kansas City offers a high quality of life, affordable housing, excellent schools, and endless opportunities for entertainment, culture, and outdoor activities. Join us in making a difference in the lives of children and advancing your career!

Position Perks & Benefits:

• Employee benefits package - health, dental, vision, retirement, life, & more**
• Paid time off - 29 days per year including vacation & holiday pay
• Mileage reimbursement - company paid for work functions requiring travel
• NHSC approved - eligible site for tax-free student loan assistance
• Top-notch training - initial, ongoing, comprehensive, and supportive
• Career mobility - advancement opportunities/promoting from within
• Welcoming, warm, supportive - a work culture & environment that promotes your well-being, values you as human being, and encourages your health and happiness

Key Responsibilities:

• Direct Service Provision: Deliver therapeutic interventions aligned with established protocols, employing approved techniques and methods tailored to diverse client populations, settings, and demographics.
• Caseload Management: Assume progressive ownership of allocated cases, balancing quantity against quality, complexity versus simplicity, and urgency vis à vis chronicity, whilst remaining accountable for outcome measurements and benchmarks.
• Clinical Documentation: Produce legible, precise, objective, and exhaustive written accounts detailing observations, assessments, diagnoses, and treatment trajectories according to institutional conventions, applicable law, and accepted ethical standards.
• Collaborative Consultation: Engage in regular dialogues with senior staff, peers, and auxiliary personnel to exchange ideas, harmonize viewpoints, and synthesize disparate elements into cohesive, integrated therapeutic narratives.
• Reflective Supervision: Submit voluntarily to periodic scrutiny by designated preceptors, submitting audio recordings, video footage, or live observation sessions for appraisal and critique, thereby refining aptitudes and remediating deficiencies.
• Performance Metrics: Uphold organization-wide standards pertaining to attendance, punctuality, turnover rates, attrition indices, patient satisfaction surveys, and other quantifiable indicators reflecting proficiency and commitment.
• Policy Adherence: Abide diligently by corporate guidelines, rules, and standard operating procedures delimiting acceptable modes of operation, contingency planning, incident reporting, and risk mitigation.
• Professional Ethos: Demonstrate irreproachable integrity, decorum, courtesy, tact, and diplomacy in dealings with clients, coworkers, administrators, vendors, and visitors, consistently portraying favorably the image of the employer brand.
• Public Speaking: Orchestrate presentations, seminars, workshops, trainings, and instructional modules targeting fellow professionals, lay audiences, students, trainees, volunteers, paraprofessionals, and novitiates.
• Continuing Education: Remain conversant with recent literature, scholarly publications, journal articles, conference proceedings, webcasts, podcasts, blogs, newsletters, magazines, listservs, mailing lists, bulletins, briefings, digests, abstracts, summaries, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and consensus statements germane to the discipline.

Education and/or Experience Qualifications:

A trainee that meets the requirements for registration, supervision, and professional development as set forth by either:

• The Missouri Credentialing Board, Inc.: OR
• The appropriate board of professional registration with the Department of Economic Development for licensure as a psychologist, professional counselor, or social worker

Additional Qualifications:

• A valid driver's license and a reliable vehicle.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Flexibility and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
• Compassion, empathy, and a genuine desire to help others.

Brightli is on a Mission:

A mission to improve client care, reduce the financial burden of community mental health centers by sharing resources, a mission to have a larger voice in advocacy to increase access to mental health and substance use care in our communities, and a mission to evolve the behavioral health industry to better meet the needs of our clients.

As a behavioral and community mental health provider, we prioritize fostering a culture of belonging and connection within our workforce. We encourage applications from individuals with varied backgrounds and experiences, as we believe that a rich tapestry of perspectives strengthens our mission. If you are passionate about empowering local communities and creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported, we invite you to join our mission-driven organization dedicated to cultivating an authentic workplace.