Mental Health Therapist (Bilingual)
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Synergy Family ServicesBehavioral health
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: United StatesContractJunior
Salary$55-65/Hour
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Job Details
- Experience
- Two or more years of direct mental-health counseling or psychotherapy experience.
- Required Skills
- EHR
Requirements
- Hold a master’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology, marriage and family therapy, or another related behavioral-health field from an accredited program.
- Maintain an active Maryland license appropriate to the services provided, such as LMSW, LCSW, LCSW-C, LGPC, LCPC, LAMFT, or LMFT.
- Know ethical, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and person-centered behavioral-health practice.
- Be able to assess and respond to clinical risk, maintain professional boundaries, protect confidentiality, and seek consultation appropriately.
- Have reliable access to the technology and communication methods needed to perform the role.
- Be able to become proficient in an electronic health record system.
- Preferred: Two or more years of direct mental-health counseling or psychotherapy experience.
- Preferred: Experience in an outpatient, private practice, community-based, school-based, or Medicaid-funded behavioral-health setting.
- Preferred: Experience providing therapy to children, adolescents, adults, and/or families with diverse clinical presentations and cultural backgrounds.
- Preferred: Training or demonstrated skill in one or more evidence-based therapeutic approaches.
Responsibilities
- Provide individual and family therapy using evidence-based, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and person-centered approaches.
- Assess client needs, strengths, risks, diagnoses, functioning, and progress, and translate findings into treatment goals and interventions.
- Provide sessions at the frequency established through intake, clinical need, and the treatment plan.
- Monitor attendance and engagement, conduct and document outreach, identify barriers, and follow re-engagement, transfer, or discharge procedures.
- Coordinate care with supervisors and internal or external partners, including psychiatry, case management, schools, medical providers, and community resources.
- Complete risk assessments, safety plans, incident documentation, consultation, and escalation when safety concerns arise.
- Use Credible and other agency systems for scheduling, service documentation, communication, reporting, and workflows.
- Complete accurate clinical documentation and assigned records within agency deadlines.
- Participate in clinical supervision, training, meetings, and performance evaluations, and apply feedback.
- Maintain an active caseload, meet service expectations, and submit weekly service reporting.
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