Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Family Focused Senior Mental Health Clinician, Every Child Inc. - Pittsburgh, PA

Posted: 1/3/12

Every Child Inc. began in 1997 serving the specific needs of birth, foster, and adoptive families and children with special needs from Allegheny County and surrounding counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania. We are a non-profit agency of approximately 75 employees and have succeeded in serving over 3,000 families in the past 12 years. Every Child’s staff is fully dedicated to helping guide the family through each chapter of their particular story, serving all children with special needs regardless of their age, race or disability.  We are currently recruiting for the following position:

SENIOR FAMILY FOCUSED MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN - Pregnancy and Parenting Support

Reports To:  Family Focused Solution Based Supervisor

Position Requirements: 
Master’s Degree in Counseling, Social Work, Psychology or related field required.  Experience in Family Focused Solution Based or Family Based Mental Health Services and writing Psychological Assessments preferred. Minimum of one year experience with coaching clients during pregnancy and birth. Technical versatility to implement a variety of treatment interventions to ameliorate child/family needs.  Minimum of two years related experience.  Proficient in problem solving, well developed interpersonal and communication skills.  Familiar with psychiatric diagnosis and knowledgeable of supportive and concrete services available to children and families via community and social service organizations.  Ability to demonstrate effective problem solving and negotiation skills with consumers and to empower families.  Familiarity with solutions focused and family systems therapy models.  Mandatory ability to be “crisis on-call” to families during office hours and departmental rotations. Ability to maintain highly confidential data.  Excellent planning and organizational skills.  Ability to work with minimal supervision and multi-task to meet important deadlines.  Ownership of a reliable vehicle.  Valid PA driver’s license and proof of insurance.  Act 33/34, child abuse, criminal and FBI clearances required.

Position Summary: 
The Family Focused Senior Mental Health Clinician will provide intensive home based individual/family therapy and support services to families whose children, adolescents or adults meet the criteria entrance into the service.   Family Focused Mental Health Clinician will conduct and write child/adolescent and adult Psychological Assessments.  Therapeutic services should be tailored to the specific needs of the individual/family and may vary depending upon the needs and progress of the individual/family.  Clinically sound services should be implemented to enable the child or adult to be maintained in his/her home environment and to function appropriately in the least restrictive environment deemed medically necessary in accordance with the current Medical Assistance Program.  Responsible for complying with all PA State, County, managed care, and departmental paperwork expectations. Required to meet departmental productivity standards as required by Every Child.  Other agency related duties as required or assigned.

TO APPLY: 

If you are interested in applying for this position, please submit your letter of interest and resume to hr@everychildinc.org. Please include salary requirement when submitting your application. Thank you.

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