Mental Health Therapist
On-siteExton, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Conduct mental health screenings, assessments, and suicide risk evaluations to determine needs for school-based services. Provide direct therapeutic services through individual and group interventions while developing, implementing, and monitoring plans aligned with students' IEPs. Maintain daily progress notes, assessments, and fiscal records; collaborate with families, school staff, and community providers to ensure coordinated support. Lead the Threat Assessment Team, contribute to Positive Behavior Support Plans, and exercise independent clinical judgment in defining significant life interventions. Ensure confidentiality in accordance with federal, state, and local regulations.
Required Qualifications
- Licensed mental health professional (LCSW, LSW or LPC)
- Minimum one year experience in a CASSP system, child welfare or school-based experience
- Knowledge of Pennsylvania Charter School Law and School Code as it relates to School Based Mental Health Services
- Knowledgeable of cognitive behavioral techniques as well as multiple other approaches to needs assessment and intervention
- Skilled in designing services that are flexible, culturally sensitive, and individually tailored to meet the diverse needs of the child and family
- Knowledge of Medicaid systems and school-based ACCESS Program
- Knowledge of special education programs, regulations and operations
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
- Ability to write reports, formal correspondence, and other documents that conform to prescribed style and format
- Ability to interface diplomatically with other administrators, teachers, parents, students, Board members, support staff, colleagues, and outside professional contacts
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Strong interpersonal skills, and effective verbal and written communication skills
- Required Clearances include Criminal Background Clearance (Act 34), Child Abuse Clearance (Act 151), and FBI Fingerprint Clearance (Act 114), all dated within one year of receipt
- Meets criteria for employment in a PA Public School
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time
- Ability to bend, stoop, climb stairs, and reach overhead
- Ability to exhibit mental dexterity to enter data into a computer, to read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids, to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels outdoors, and on the telephone, and to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
- Ability to physically lift up to 20 pounds
- Position may require implementing de-escalation tactics with students who present an imminent risk to themselves or others, in accordance with established safety care training guidelines
Desired Qualifications
- Training on equity, diversity, and culturally responsive pedagogy preferred, as well as a willingness to extend his or her professional development in these areas
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