Mental Health Clinician 2 (PCN 064974M)

**THE RECRUITMENT PERIOD FOR THIS RECRUITMENT HAS BEEN EXTENDED**

This position is open to All Applicants.

The Division of Juvenile Justice is recruiting to fill multiple Mental Health Clinician 2 positions located in Anchorage at the McLaughlin Youth Center. 

What You Will Be Doing:

Influence, inspire, and transform the lives of detained youth and their families through therapeutic programs that incorporate the restorative justice, trauma informed, and culturally aware approaches to community protection, youth accountability, and competency development. Under general supervision, this position:

• Provides a broad range of mental health counseling services to detained youth in a secure residential setting, long term treatment, and probation; 
• Provides skilled and intensive psychotherapeutic casework for justice involved youth and families; 
• Is responsible for ongoing clinical support, guidance, training, and collaboration with multidisciplinary staff at the McLaughlin Youth Center and in the south-central region to facilitate effective clinical interventions and treatment approaches for youth experiencing behavioral/mental health issues. 

Our Organization, Mission, and Culture:
Through Restorative Justice, we hold juvenile offenders accountable for their behavior; promote the safety and restoration of victims and communities; and assist offenders and their families in developing the skills to prevent crime. 

Our Core Values Include:

• Prioritizing Safety – of our youth, staff, families, and communities 
• Responsiveness – providing timely response to youth, families, victims, staff, and justice partners. 
• Professional Relationships – recognizing that successful treatment services provided to our clients, coworkers, victims, and others rely on positive, respectful, and collaborative relationships and a spirit of inclusiveness. 
• Dedication – doing the right things for the right reasons and modeling relentless integrity and leadership. 

The Benefits of Joining Our Team:

Join an amazing team of staff who are leading the nation in the field of justice involved youth. We provide cutting edge, evidence-based behavioral health programs and mental health services in our efforts to make meaningful change in youths' lives. Take advantage of a unique opportunity to learn and grow professionally, while serving Alaska's youth and families. Our staff are tirelessly dedicated to providing high quality services, despite obstacles, and we believe in enhancing the strengths of our staff by promoting training and professional development.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

You will work full-time in the McLaughlin Youth Center (MYC) located at 2600 Providence Drive in Anchorage. Shift work is required which may entail working 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm at least two (2) nights per week and working one day on a weekend. This position may be required to travel throughout the region. 

Who We Are Looking For:
In addition to the Minimum Qualifications below, we are looking for a candidate with the following competencies:

• Conscientiousness: Displays a high level of effort and commitment towards performing work; demonstrates responsible behavior. 
• Decisiveness: Makes well-informed, effective, and timely decisions, even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; perceives the impact and implications of decisions. 
• Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.
• Oral Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Accountability: Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions and demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient, and cost-effective manner. 

To view the general description and example of duties for the Mental Health Clinician 2, please go to the following link: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/alaska/classspecs/891421?keywords=mental health clinician&pagetype=classSpecifications

Master’s degree from an accredited college in counseling, psychology, social work, child guidance, vocational rehabilitation, or a closely related field.

AND

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities in 

• Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.
• Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.
• Psychology: Knowledge of the concepts, principles, and theories of human behavior and performance in various contexts, mental processes, or the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
• Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental ailments, and career guidance.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Professional experience performing psychotherapeutic casework.

“Professional experience” means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.

"Training" and "education" in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

Special Note:

Some positions require the incumbent be licensed as a Clinical Social Worker or a Licensed Professional Counselor. This requirement will be addressed in the job posting.

At time of interview applicant must submit: 

• Copy of transcripts (unofficial are okay, please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts). 
• Three (3) names & phone numbers of professional references. 
• Two (2) performance evaluations from previous employers, if available.

Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission.

BACKGROUND CHECK
The successful candidate must pass a comprehensive background investigation, which includes a state and FBI fingerprint-based background check.

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT
The State’s online recruitment system, Workplace Alaska, requires applicants to certify that they have a legal right to accept employment in the United States. It is the responsibility of the employee to maintain the appropriate documentation to accept or continue legal employment. The State of Alaska does not function in the role as an employer sponsor. 

EDUCATION
To verify education being used to meet the required minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials being used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position and are required with each application.  (Unofficial are okay, please ensure that the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts). Transcripts can be attached at the time of application, provided at the time of interview, or if/when requested prior to scheduling an interview.
 
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.  Omission of required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application and you will not receive further consideration.
 

WORK EXPERIENCE
When using work experience not already documented in your application, please provide the employer’s name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported, and minimum qualifications are clearly met. Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application.  If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.  A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position in which you are applying.
 
 If you are currently or previously been appointed to a flexibly staffed position, please ensure your work experience within a flexibly staffed position indicates the actual dates employed at each level.  Ensure your time and any subsequent flex promotion(s) are documented as a separate position.  This is required as there are minimum qualifications that require experience at a particular level in which the lower level may not be considered. If this information is not accurately reflected in your application this may cause the processing of your application for consideration to be delayed.
 

NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application in its entirety. Noting "see resume or CV" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.
 
The State of Alaska does not provide VISA Employer sponsorships.
 
RECRUITMENT SCOPE 
This position is open to All Applicants. 
 
MULTIPLE VACANCIES
This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.
 
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For specific information in reference to the position please contact the hiring manager at:
 
Name:  Sherri Scott
Phone: (907) 261-4563
Fax: (907) 261-4551
Email: sherri.scott@alaska.gov