Staff Therapist—Adults and Couples Team

Staff Therapist Position Description

Adults and Couples

Position Title

Staff Therapist REPORTS TO: Director of Client Care, Adults and Couples

General Description

A staff therapist provides individual, group, couples, and family counseling. He or she participates as a clinical staff team member, shares in staffing and case conferences, performs necessary administrative tasks, and participates in Center community relations.

Major Responsibilities

1. Professional Services: Provide care to clients seeking services under the scope of practice indicated by licensure.

• 2. Participate in organizational provider activities (such as SERT, Peer Reviews, Continuing
• Education, etc.)
• 3. Center Administration and Development

Examples of Work

Professional Services

• Providing the number of agreed upon clinical hours based on role and responsibilities
• Providing therapy services via telehealth in accordance with organizational policies and state licensure requirements, when applicable
• Maintaining electronic clinical records in keeping with Center policies and procedures
• Participating in outcome-based documentation and quality improvement efforts as requested
• Working with the administrative staff to set and collect appropriate fees
• Representing the standards and practices of their primary professional fields

Organizational Provider Activities

• Engaging in regular clinical supervision as required by licensure or organizational policy; may provide supervision to interns or associates as assigned
• Working cooperatively with staff colleagues, consultants, and referring professionals
• Actively participating in clinical staffing and case consultations
• Attending administrative staff meetings, staff retreats, and other team building activities

Center Administration and Development

• Participating in the development of the Center's referral network
• Performing administrative and development tasks as assigned
• Participating in the Center's programs of education, consultation, and community relations

Experience and Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master's or doctor's degree in counseling, psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, pastoral counseling or equivalent.
• Valid license within the State of Texas required, must be free from any license sanction and/or professional restrictions that could negatively impact the organization. Membership to corresponding professional associations respective of licensure preferred.
• At least 2 years of clinical training and experience respective of field of practice and licensure preferred.
• Demonstrates capacity to work freely with clients and to protect them from the therapist's own problems.
• Demonstrates a willingness to build and maintain self-reflective capacity, including awareness of personal dynamics that may arise in clinical work and the ability to engage in ongoing growth and supervision.
• Proficiency in a coherent theory and practice of therapy, ability to clearly articulate how theory impacts work with clients.
• Ability to use the language and methodology of differential diagnosis and familiarity with the contributions of various diagnostic tests.
• Ability to assess a client's therapeutic needs, to establish a therapeutic relationship, and to conduct, complete, terminate, and evaluate that therapy.
• Ability to relate the contributions of various disciplines to the therapeutic task and to make appropriate use of inter-professional collaboration.
• Ability to work effectively with the community, including but not limited to donors, sponsors, other nonprofits, and agencies that collaborate with the organization.
• Ability to honor and integrate a client’s spiritual and/or religious beliefs and practices within the therapeutic process.
• Ability to think wholistically about the therapeutic task and the relation of therapy to the total task of integrating care for mind, body, and spirit.
• Demonstrated commitment to or experience with culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and inclusive care for diverse populations.
• Ability and willingness to develop and cultivate his/her own caseload by representing the Center in the community and relating to referral sources.
• Ability to establish and maintain appropriate personal and professional relationships and boundaries both within and outside the Center.

Positon Specific Demands

This position performs the majority of work indoors, with some outdoor work during special events.

Job duties require the ability to remain in a stationary position between 50-80% of the time worked; the ability to traverse the office area; constantly operate office machinery such as computers, calculators, faxes and printers.

Duties also require the ability to lift, push, pull or move items up to approximately 25 pounds. Occasionally, an individual in the position might find the need to kneel, stoop, crouch or traverse tight spaces.

The position requires the individual to be able to communicate frequently using appropriate senses in order to detect, discern, identify, recognize, judge, observe, estimate, inspect or assess details of the work environment.

The individual in this position could be exposed to changes in climate when working outdoors; and be subject to tension, stress and difficult situations from time to time. Occasionally, the individual could be exposed to hazardous chemicals such as inks, toners, cleaning chemicals or similar. Exposure to blood/bodily fluids and bloodborne pathogens is expected to be rare.

Please note: nothing in this job description restricts administration’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time;

This description reflects administrations assignment of essential functions, it does not provide or restrict the tasks that may be assigned;

This job description is subject to change at any time.

Location: Tyler, Texas

Department: Clinical Services

Employment Type: Full-Time (40hrs)

Minimum Experience

Experienced

Compensation

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