Youth Therapist, Part Time

Alabama Mentor, a part of the Sevita family, provides Residential and Treatment Foster Care services to youth who may be facing out-of-home placements, transitioning back into the family home or independent living alternatives, or involved in the juvenile justice system. Through our personalized programming, we help youth gain stability, comfort and confidence to overcome all challenges and live well. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of individuals and families, join our mission-driven team and experience a career well lived. Youth Therapist, Part Time Foster Care (in-home)

• Do you have experience in human services and want to work for a company that actively improves the lives of the individuals it serves?
• In the Therapist role, you will provide psychotherapy to aid individuals in increasing their sense of their well-being.
• You will employ a range of techniques based on experiential relationship-building, dialogue, communication and behavior change that is designed to improve the mental health of the person served or to improve group relationships (such as in a family).
• Conduct psychosocial assessments to document history and identify preliminary issues for treatment by interviewing the child and family (if applicable), and transcribing or dictating relevant information for client records.
• Provide therapy, family support, and crisis interventions to an individual, family and/or group using various treatment modalities as outlined in state/local contracts and/or state licensing standards.
• Provide mental health consultation to stakeholders and treatment team members.
• Develop individualized treatment plans in coordination with an interdisciplinary team Work with members of the interdisciplinary team to coordinate other treatment initiatives including school performance, permanency, and reunification planning.
• Develop and coordinate discharge plan based on treatment, indicating all relevant aftercare needs and plans.
• Conduct educational groups for clients, families and foster parents.
• Prepare and train the child’s biological or legal parents to resume care of their child when reunification is the goal (if applicable to the population being served).
• Conduct regularly scheduled face-to-face meetings with the person served and caretaker to monitor progress and discuss treatment strategies and services.
• Maintain current, legible and adequate medical record documentation in client’s chart.
• Attend regular staff meetings, clinical meetings and one-on-one sessions with direct supervisor to process current status of cases.