School Based Clinician

Through hope & healing, Sinnissippi Centers strives to empower all to live their best lives.

Sinnissippi Centers is looking for a School Based Counselor to work in an intensive, high‑acuity, team‑oriented school environment in Carroll County. This position will work in tandem with guidance counselors, teachers, and administrators to help meet the mental health needs of students where they are. The role will involve direct interaction with school children and providing services on location at school and in natural settings – community or other locations where children feel most comfortable.

School Based Clinicians working full‑time can contract annually to reduce a 12‑month continuous work arrangement to either a 9‑ or 10‑month period each year where job duties and responsibilities permit, with salary adjusted accordingly.

• Works cooperatively with teachers, guidance counselors, and administrative staff within their assigned buildings, including, but not limited to, relaying appropriate information to and from school facilities and coordinating services within the building.
• Interview potential clients to assess the need for direct mental health treatment of mental and emotional disorders or referral elsewhere.
• Provides comprehensive, medically necessary, and psychotherapeutic services for individuals to promote personal growth in the form of emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and/or psychological changes.
• Diagnostically assess, formulate, and complete the client's Individual Service Plan (ISP), inclusive of diagnosis, goals, and appropriate signatures.
• Share and receive appropriate information with teachers, guidance counselors, and administrative staff to collaborate with clients in the assigned buildings.
• Educate clients and their families regarding diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and therapeutic process.
• Identify, recommend, network, and/or utilize community resources to facilitate the highest possible mental health and addiction functioning of all assigned clients as needed.

• Health, Dental, Vision insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Agency‑provided Life insurance
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Paid time off
• 401(k) Retirement plan with 50% – employer match

$51,405 – $59,758 (MHP/Bachelor's level); $59,116 – $68,870 (QMHP/Master's level). Salary is adjusted for 10‑month positions.

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree (preferred) from an accredited university or college in Social Work, Psychology, or another human service related field required.
• Licensure to provide mental health services, LCPC or LCSW preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in the treatment of children, adolescents, adults, and families; individually and in group modality.
• Ability to problem‑solve complex and potential crisis mental health client problems.
• Ability to develop and write clear, concise documents involving client outcome reporting requirements.
• Excellent time management and interviewing skills and an ability to work with autonomy.

YOU are welcome here. At Sinnissippi Centers, we understand that each person is unique and rooted in their individual culture. Using evidence‑based practices, our approach of trauma‑informed care creates a safe place where people are seen, heard, valued, empowered to succeed, and can proudly see themselves as consumers, as staff, and as community members.

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Health Care Provider
• Industries:
  Mental Health Care