Description

POSITION OVERVIEW
Child Therapist is responsible for providing hope centered and trauma informed outpatient mental health service delivery, education, and consultation to a diverse caseload including children, adolescents, families, adults, and agency partnerships. Child Therapist will utilize evidence based and best practice standards to ensure quality service delivery and support to clients and agency partners while ensuring compliance to agency policy, accrediting bodies, and state licensure requirements.

Sunbeam Therapists are expected to deliver high quality, client centered, and impactful services evidenced by positive outcome measurements and client self-reports.

All employees and volunteers are expected to reflect Sunbeam Family Services’ core values and to perform at Sunbeam’s standards of excellence at all times.

Requirements

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Demonstrate capacity for providing developmentally sensitive, evidence based, culturally sensitive, hope centered, and trauma informed services.
• Demonstrate ability to serve and carry a highly differentiated caseload where various services and activities are required for diverse client care, including individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, couples/marital therapy, client advocacy, assessment, treatment planning, crisis intervention and follow up as needed, education, and consultation using agency-approved, evidenced based practices.
• Provide EAP (Employee Assistance Program) services which consists of brief, solution-focused therapy and EAP partner support, education, and consultation.
• Provide required initial and ongoing screenings, standardized assessment and diagnostic tools, summary of symptoms and diagnosis based on assessment, and treatment planning with potential and current clients that includes gathering of information about the culture, symptoms, behaviors, functioning, history, needs and preferences to assist in the collaborative decision-making and goal setting process about the treatment needs of that person or client.
• Facilitate referral of potential or current clients into the appropriate agency program(s) or to another community provider or partner if appropriate and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings as necessary.
• Obtain and maintain necessary releases and consents and advise the clients about their rights and responsibilities through ongoing collaboration.
  Provide case management and advocacy for clients, assisting them in obtaining needed benefits and resources, including, but not limited to: housing; employment; medical, recreation; social and family supports; nutritional information; medications, and childcare needs.
• Accurately complete all record keeping, documentation, and reporting functions in a timely manner as required by program and/or agency policy utilizing the agency designated EHR or other reporting systems.
• Meet or exceed established productivity requirements.
• Participate in weekly departmental staff meetings and consultation as well as seek and accept consultation from leadership on challenging or difficult issues.
• Provide mentorship to colleagues or interns regarding outpatient care.
• Act as point of contact while on-site, particularly during assigned evening hours.
• Participate in, at minimum, monthly administrative and/or clinical supervision with the Clinical Director as well as seek and accept regular consultation on challenging or difficult issues.
• Represent Sunbeam in a professional manner, which may include community interactions, consultation and education to staff and community partners, and presentations (including media and in person), etc.
• Knowledgeable of agency policies and procedures and ensure compliance with agency accrediting and oversight bodies, including but not limited to Council On Accreditation (COA), Oklahoma Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services (ODMSHSAS), Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA), and others as applicable.
• Maintain professional competency in their discipline through appropriate readings, attendance at workshops/trainings, and through consultation with other professionals while complying with all requirements to maintain professional licensure.
• Adhere to the Sunbeam Code of Ethics, HIPAA, and other confidentiality policies/practices while maintaining professional standards at all time.
  Travel locally as required in the performance of responsibilities.
• Perform other appropriate and related responsibilities as assigned by supervisor, Senior Program Director, or Executive Team member.