Mental Health Therapist

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Full‑Time Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM- 5:00 PM

$35.81 - $40.33/hour; up to $46.32/hour

Tri‑Cities Community Health (TCCH) is looking for a Mental Health Therapist who has a passion for helping others. As a community health center, located in southeastern Washington, serving Pasco, Kennewick, Richland and the surrounding communities. We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated therapist with experience working with adolescents. The ideal candidate will focus on helping clients navigate and overcome emotional, behavioral, and social challenges in a therapeutic setting.

TCCH offers a variety of schedules to support a work‑life balance. Most of our clinics offer Monday‑Friday day shifts, with no weekends or holidays, competitive salaries and benefits. While providing careers in a fast‑paced work environment and opportunities for professional development. We employ a highly diversified group of talented individuals who are dedicated to fulfilling our mission to provide the highest quality patient care with the greatest degree of professionalism and courtesy regardless of a patient’s ability to pay.

We are dedicated to the communities we serve, bringing together a unified team that delivers the highest‑quality health care to every person, every time.

Our community health center began as a modest sized medical clinic in Pasco, Washington in 1981. The clinic was founded by a small group of women in the Pasco community who saw the need to serve low‑income community members who could not afford to pay for healthcare. Tri‑Cities Community Health has grown into a comprehensive non‑profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) where we have evolved into a network of community health centers that continue with the foundation TCCH was built on and serve an even more diverse population in the Tri‑Cities and surrounding areas.

Under the general supervision of the Mental Health Clinical Supervisor, the Mental Health Therapist offers assessment, diagnosis, and therapeutic interventions to meet client‑driven goals which assist with managing mental health symptoms and psychosocial issues. An autonomous role that coordinates, negotiates, procures services and resources for, and manages the care of complex patients to facilitate stabilization and maintaining the most optimum living conditions for the client in the least restrictive setting.

Provides clinically based and empirically supported therapeutic interventions and care coordination to facilitate the stabilization and management of mentally ill clients and assists in the identification of appropriate utilization of resources across the continuum of care. Unmet needs of clients and the community will be evaluated and responded appropriately by creating group opportunities, psychoeducation, community outreach and other duties as needed.

The therapist works collaboratively with interdisciplinary staff internal and external to the organization. Participates in quality improvement and evaluation processes related to the overall management of clients care in the community mental health setting. Delivers direct service to clients in the form of individual, family, and group therapy. Works with a variety of ages and presenting problems.

• Directs, coordinates, and provides mental health therapy and coordination to clients in caseload
• Interacts, communicates, and intervenes with multidisciplinary team in a purposeful, goal‑directed fashion. Works proactively to maximize the effectiveness of resource utilization and client service delivery
• Maintains current knowledge of therapeutic modalities, therapeutic interventions, and agency guidelines for treatment, as specified by federal, state, and private insurance guidelines
• Attends all required safety training programs and can describe his or her responsibilities related to general safety, department/service safety, and specific job related hazards
• Maintains Documentation of client care
• Implements interventions that…