03/15/2022
Are you a strong leader with an extensive history serving people with serious and persistent mental illness? Are you motivated by teaming with others and solving problems collectively? Do you have a “do what it takes” approach to helping others overcome life obstacles? If yes, please consider applying for the position of ACT Mental Health Therapist.! We look forward to talking with you about this opportunity today!
Minimum Qualifications
Education and Training: Master’s Degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology or other clinical field (license preferred).
Experience: At least two (2) years of experience providing psychotherapy to individuals with severe mental illness.
Essential Responsibilities 1. Ability to be sensitive to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
2. Commitment to empowering others to solve their own problems.
3. Commitment to valuing a nurturing family as the ideal environment.
4. Conviction about the capacity of people to grow and change.
5. Ability to establish a respectful relationship with persons served to help them gain skills and confidence.
6. Ability to work collaboratively with other personnel and / or service providers or professionals.
7. Capacity to maintain a helping role and to intervene appropriately to meet service goals.
8. Ability to set appropriate limits.
9. Basic knowledge of normal and abnormal personality development.
10. Basic knowledge of family systems and interactions.
11. Ability to forge a mutually respectful partnership with persons served and their families in which they are helped to gain the skill and confidence to address any issues and problems they face; conviction about the capacity of people to grow and change; ability to set limits and maintain the helping role of the practitioner and to intervene appropriately to meet the needs of the persons served or other family members.
12. Ability to plan time sensitive goal directed treatment, and to carry out treatment using individual, joint, marital and group modalities.
13. Basic knowledge of treatment process appropriate to a wide variety of diagnostic categories and ages.
14. Basic ability to evaluate treatment progress and request help when needed, to relate non-defensively in supervision and use suggestions appropriately.
15. Ability to manage time and assigned responsibilities so as to meet the production requirement of the Agency.
16. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with program personnel and other community agencies and caregivers, and ability to work in partnership with other team members.
17. Child Abuse History clearance (ACT 33) & Criminal History Record Clearance (ACT 34) required.
18. Must have a valid PA driver’s license, and insurance
