IOSS Therapist

Provide Mental Health Therapy to Clients

Build therapeutic relationships and provide individual therapy to youth clients of the SLMH’s IOSS program with emotional problems and/or psychiatric disabilities. Help these youth clients identify personal strengths and resources needed to acquire skills and supports while healing from past traumas and assist in developing and implementing culturally appropriate individualized and family plans in collaboration with other IOSS team members.

Provide family support as necessary and appropriate, including providing support for parents and other caregivers of clients.

Work with clients and IOSS Team members to provide therapy and support in the environment that provides the best opportunity for success. This may include conducting therapeutic sessions in the community or schools, over the phone, and/or conducting home visits as necessary and appropriate.

Provide crisis service and assistance to other members of the IOSS team who are providing crisis support as needed during business hours.

Conduct in-depth mental health assessments, intakes, and updates; develop individualized support plans; and document services as appropriate, both for assigned IOSS clients and for other IOSS clients as requested.

Understand that many individuals have been traumatized and work to provide services from a culturally appropriate, respectful, trauma-informed perspective.

Participate in the IOSS Treatment Team

Regularly attend IOSS team meetings, and collaborate with other IOSS team members to identify strategies to provide quality care to IOSS clients.

Coordinate care with other members of the IOSS team, other providers, family members, courts, schools, etc. as required to assist the client in successfully meeting individual goals.

Participate in Child and Family Team Meetings and work with adult care providers (parents, foster parents, teachers) when appropriate to assist with improving the family system.

Coordinate with internal and external team members as necessary.

Assess safety of self and others in community/home situations, respond to safety concerns, and coordinate with the team to ensure appropriate safety while seeing clients.

Complete administrative and continuing education responsibilities

Schedule appointments with assigned clients, and coordinate and maintain appointment calendar.

Complete all required paperwork, including notes on each session, individual client paperwork and annual assessments, in a timely manner.

Meet requirements regarding productivity and dependability.

Actively participate in both group and individual clinical supervision, as well as team and staff meetings.

Engage in continuing education activities and trainings, maintain appropriate continuing education credits as required by board and licensure, and continually build therapeutic skills

Participate in compliance and quality reviews as required.

Positively represent SLMH in the community and with other service providers, and act as a liaison with other organizations or with internal committees/cross-departmental teams.

Perform all duties in a respectful and responsible manner, with clients, their families and coworkers, and in a manner that meets all professional ethical standards.

Additional duties as requested.