Posting number: 15558
Department: Health Department
Division: Behavioral Health
Job classification: Senior Therapist
Posting type: Open
Categories: Mental Health, Counseling
SummaryThe Licensed Senior Therapist is a valuable member of our behavioral health team in our North Chicago Clinic who provides evaluation, psycho-social education, mentoring, and treatment services to clients and assists clients in developing and accomplishing treatment goals in individual and group settings. Provides consultation and education to community groups and emergency services as needed. Competently works with clients with coexisting disorders and works with youth and adult clients.Schedule: 40 hours a week
- Monday-Friday (8:30am-5:00pm)
- One evening day per week 10:30am-7pm
- Provides crisis intervention services to stabilize and assess the need for and, if possible, deflect a client from psychiatric hospitalization.
- Secures and coordinates mental health services for the client between various providers and the client or the client’s caretaker.
- Facilitates clinical consultation as assigned.
- Serves as a backup for problem-solving and decision-making in the absence of program managers.
- Ensures effective communication among all staff regarding administrative and clinical issues.
- Recommends to the Program Coordinator the transfer of clients from programs in which they are unable or unwilling to function adequately.
- Performs initial evaluations and assessments of potential clients regarding their appropriateness for participation in the program.
- Focuses on client empowerment, evidence-based or adopted best practices in providing treatment, seeking to assist clients to build strengths to meet their treatment needs.
- Facilitates with clients and collaborates with the treatment team to develop, review, and update treatment goals and referrals both internally and externally.
- Organizes and participates in treatment-related clinical conferences and staffings on assigned clients.
- Provide education and direction to clients, family members, and/or significant others.
- Takes responsibility for training in and documenting clinical chart requirements to meet program and state standards.
- Master’s degree in a related field
- Licensed by the State of Illinois as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT).
As the largest human service provider in Lake County, we believe that services must be available without barriers. No residents are turned away due to the inability to pay. We believe in providing services in an environment of mutual respect, free of discrimination or bias. Whether assuring accessible and effective care, impacting policy, or assessing and monitoring risks, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has been an essential part of the public health system in Lake County for 60 years. We are looking for passionate, qualified team members who can help make a difference in our agency and, most importantly, in our community.
Additional information about the Lake County Health Department, our culture, and why you should join our team can be found at https://lakecountyil.attract.neogov.com/health-department.
At this time, you must live in Illinois or Wisconsin to be eligible to work at Lake County Health Department. You can find our salary grades at https://www.lakecountyil.gov/4515/Salary-Grades. For unionized positions, a list of our collective bargaining agreements can be found here: https://www.lakecountyil.gov/2686/Collective-Bargaining-Agreements.
Any offer of employment is conditioned on the successful completion of a background screening, drug and alcohol testing and may include a pre-employment medical exam.
The Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.