**Voted Best Place to Work in Alaska in 2022-2025!**
Job summary:
Set Free Alaska is looking for a Mental Health Clinician to join our award-winning team. You are the perfect candidate if you are someone that is passionate about helping others and looking for more than just a job. You joined the behavioral health field to help others. At Set Free we value that and set up our caseloads to ensure you have the time to provide excellent service while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Clinicians are on the front lines of the fight, championing others as they find hope and healing. We appreciate the work you do and strive to care for our teams in a way that gives evidence to that. Set Free was voted the Best Place to Work in Alaska for all employers under 250 employees. Apply now to add your skills, knowledge, and passion to our team of life-changers! The Children’s Mental Health Clinician is responsible for providing services related to the delivery of mental health care to assigned clients.
Benefits:
- Insurance
- Health
- Dental
- Vision
- Life
- Short Term Disability
- 401K with 3% match
- Paid Time Off
- Continuing Education Stipend
- Clinical Supervision for licensure (LPC and/or LCSW)
Qualifications:
Requirements:
- Master’s degree from an accredited university in the field of psychology, social work, counseling education or related field
- Ability to pass a drug screening and State of Alaska background check
Preferred:
- Licensed in the State of Alaska to provide mental health services (LPC, LCSW, etc.)
Skills required:
- A strong knowledge of the common diagnoses and treatments for school aged children and the skills necessary to facilitate positive change.
- Adhere to the ethical guidelines of related profession and maintain current CEU’s
- Ability to:
- Build rapport with clients and staff
- Utilize tools such as DSM 5 and ASAM with clients
- Establish and maintain clear therapeutic boundaries
- Work as a team member including accepting and providing supervision
- Great written and verbal communication skills
- Punctuality reporting to work and in delivery of direct services
- Basic computer skills, internet skills and fluid use of electronic communication tools
Job responsibilities:
- Provides direct mental health services to include intake assessment, individual/family/group therapy, and crisis intervention to assigned clients
- Maintains regular contact with the parent/guardian of each client (if appropriate)
- Completes master treatment plans, treatment plan updates, managed care authorizations and all chart requirements.
- Furnishes required reports to Office of Children Services, legal system and other involved agencies, as necessary
- Attends regularly scheduled staff meetings and clinical supervision at the corporate office
- Participates in the collection of mental health information to be used for monitoring the overall performance and effectiveness of services provided
