Child and Adolescent Complex Trauma Therapist; LPC , LCSW, LMFT

Position: Child and Adolescent Complex Trauma Therapist (LPC , LCSW, LMFT)
Metrocare is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, serving over 55,000 adults and children annually. For over 50 years, Metrocare has provided a broad array of services to people with mental health challenges and developmental disabilities. In addition to behavioral health care, Metrocare provides primary care centers for adults and children, services for veterans and their families, accessible pharmacies, housing, and supportive social services.

Alongside clinical care, researchers and teachers from Metrocare’s Altshuler Center for Education & Research are advancing mental health beyond Dallas County while providing critical workforce to the state.
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* Job Description:

** JOB DESCRIPTION

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

The mission of Metrocare Services is to serve our neighbors with developmental or mental health challenges by helping them find lives that are meaningful and satisfying. We are an agency committed to quality gender-responsive, trauma-informed care to individuals experiencing serious mental illness, development disabilities, and co-occurring disorders. Metrocare programs focus on the issues that matter most in the lives of the children, families and adults we serve.
The LPC/LCSW is responsible for providing trauma focused therapeutic services to individuals and families enrolled in the Integrative Treatment for Complex Trauma (ITCT) Program. The LPC/LCSW uses experience, knowledge base and certified training in ITCT to provide services in a person-centered, supportive community-based environment. Services array will include comprehensive and routine assessment, individual and family trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy, development of measurable treatment goals and objectives, referral, linkage, advocacy, monitoring, crisis intervention, and continuity of care.

The LPC/LCSW is monitored by periodic supervision.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The essential functions listed here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the job.
* Conduct comprehensive assessment of complex trauma, individual and family needs and develop person-centered treatment plans that will be reassessed every 3 months and adjusted as clinically indicated.
* Provide individual/family therapy utilizing Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
* Provide other treatment modalities as indicated including psychoeducation, advocacy and systems intervention, distress reduction and affect regulation training, cognitive and emotional processing, and relational/attachment processing
* Perform duties in concert with other members of an interdisciplinary treatment team.
* Develop measurable objectives and goals agreed upon by the consumer.
* Actively assist in obtaining and modifying goals as needed.
* Document all attempts to involve consumer, service providers, and caregivers (unless opposed by the consumer) in service plan process.
* Review service plans every three months or as clinically indicated.
* Participate in interdisciplinary team staffing. Present psychosocial assessment findings. Update team on progress or lack of progress in reaching agreed upon goals. Provide relevant information that might affect course of treatment.
* Follow-up with assigned consumers who miss a scheduled clinic appointment. Document attempts to contact consumer. Report repeated unsuccessful efforts to contact the treatment team.
* Oversees and assists assigned consumers medication adherence.
* Document clinical services by close of next business day.
* Perform follow up hospital assessments and report assessment outcome to the Clinical Manager
* Facilitate inpatient admission upon request of the treatment team and/or hospital. Provide continuity of services throughout inpatient stay. Participate actively in discharge planning with hospital. Meet with the consumer within 2 days of discharge in the community.
* Evaluate progress of clinical session, solicit feedback from consumer(s), and consult with colleagues and team leaders when dealing with unfamiliar/uncomfortable issues.
* Co-facilitate family education workshops.
* Identify and assist consumers in obtaining entitlements by providing referrals,…