Clinical Therapist

At Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth (SAFY), our mission is Preserving Families & Securing Futures.

Do you have a passion to serve a bigger purpose?

Are you looking to join a collaborative team to build meaningful relationships with our clients and families in our Intensive Home-Based Therapy (IHBT) Program serving the Allen & Auglaize county regions
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As a Clinical Therapist, you will be responsible for providing a range of moderately complex clinical services. Services provided will be 100% community based which includes meeting with clients in their homes, at school or in the community. While carrying a caseload of 6 families, you will be required to provide exceptional services for a total of 2 visits per week with an average visit time of 3 hours per week.

At SAFY, our mission is Preserving Families & Securing Futures. For 40 years, our work has rested on a single, radical idea – children belong in families. We believe that every child and family deserve the opportunity to reach their full potential. We are a team of 500 employees across seven states providing services such as Family Preservation & Reunification, Behavioral Health, Therapeutic Foster Care, Adoption Services and Older Youth Services so the families and children we serve can build resilience and thrive.

• Provide a range of moderately complex clinical in-home/ community-based services for children, adolescents, and adults. This will include diagnostic assessment, treatment planning, and individual, family and group therapy according to program specifics.
• Participate in the development of a Program’s documented treatment/service plans and provide identified behavioral services to meet the need of the clientele and/or program specifics.
• Provide short-term crisis intervention as needed/identified. Will follow intensive, evidence-based service models based on Family Wellness and other Trauma Informed approaches. Services are provided at the level of frequency, intensity, and duration appropriate to program/ service. The services provided are tailored to each client’s needs, problems, strengths, lifestyle, and culture.
• Develop/Maintain consultation relationships with catchments area caregivers (e.g., schools, human services agencies, etc.) in titivate work relations, provide consultative services and/or promote the coordination and development of mental health services. Establish mutually respectful rapport and implement interventions necessary to meet needs of client/collaterals; appropriately set limits and maintain helping role as a Mental Health practitioner.
• Complete assessments as required by state rules, agency policies, and/or contract requirements. Assessments may include psychosocial assessments, Diagnostic Assessment Forms, and independent living skills assessments.
• Prepare all required clinical documentation per established time frames involving all appropriate parties as required by policy and regulations of the state/ program/ contract/ SAFY policy and COA standards.

• Accurately and promptly, document and maintain outcomes of home visits, support sessions, interaction with parties involved in the client’s care and incidents as required by policy, regulations, and contract requirements. Prepare and submit timely all required company, RFP, program, referral agency and regulatory reports, progress notes, and billing tickets.
• Compile profile using pre and post assessment tools for outcome measures.
• Maintain contact with referral agency personnel using discharge reports, Diagnostic Assessment forms, telephone calls, and incident reports in addition to regularly scheduled and required written reports.
• Review all client files pertaining to assigned caseload as part of the quality improvement process.
• Must be in compliance with monthly and quarterly requirements as defined annually by SAFY QI/CQI standards. Meet state required utilization standards for Mental Health services.
• Inform clients of company policies, procedures, rights, and responsibilities. Enforce policies by writing corrective action plans, incident reports, and/ or conducting rules investigations.

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