Mental Health Therapist - Part-Time

La Rabida Children's Hospital; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 33,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

La Rabida Children’s Hospital in Chicago seeks an experienced behavioral health clinician to provide outpatient services for children and families. The role includes individual, family, and group therapy with a strong emphasis on timelines and documentation.

The position features remote Tuesday through Thursday 5:00pm–9:30pm and in-person Saturday 9:00am–3:30pm; a collaborative multidisciplinary team supports integrated care and trauma-informed approaches.

Qualifications

• MS required; LCSW/Psy.D/Ph.D. in IL preferred.
• Professional experience delivering behavioral health care to children and adolescents.
• Active LCSW license in good standing with the State of Illinois.
• CPR certification from American Heart Association or American Red Cross required.
• Covid-19 and Flu vaccination required.

Responsibilities

• Provides short term and long term evidence-based behavioral health services to patients and their families, including individual, family and group therapy.
• Conducts clinical intake assessments and appropriate diagnoses; uses scores and measures for evaluation and diagnostic clarification.
• Provides case management and advocacy; collaborates with multidisciplinary health care team to integrate services into treatment.
• Allocates 80%+ of time to therapy sessions; documents notes within 24 hours of each session.
• Attends department meetings, participates in reflective supervision, and coordinates care with internal and external providers.

Skills

Therapy

Crisis intervention

Team collaboration

Education

MS degree

Job description

• Compensation: USD 28.84 - USD 28.84 - hourly

Company Description

La Rabida Children’s Hospital provides specialized, family-centered health care to children with medically complex conditions, disabilities, and chronic illness. Through expertise, compassion, and advocacy we help children and their families reach their fullest potential, regardless of their ability to pay.

Our not-for-profit hospital, licensed for 49 beds, helps transition children from neonatal or pediatric intensive care to home, by providing medical, rehabilitative and developmental care, and by training families to continue treatments and manage the necessary equipment in the home. La Rabida also provides extensive rehabilitation for those recovering from wounds or burns and treatment for exacerbations of chronic conditions.

The hospital’s enhanced pediatric patient-centered medical home provides primary care to children with complex medical conditions and their siblings. Children with medical homes elsewhere come to La Rabida for specialty services. La Rabida offers a wide range of specialty services provided to children with sickle cell disease, diabetes, and many others. Children are supported in their emotional and developmental growth, particularly in cases where such growth has been interrupted by accident or disease.

Finally, La Rabida provides forensic and treatment services for children exposed to abuse and neglect, comprehensive assessments for wards of the state, early intervention for children between 0 and 3 years of age. Care coordination services for medically complex children are also provided for those who are covered by a health plan and receive care from providers in Cook County

Job Description

SUMMARY: Functions in an independent and professional manner to provide high-quality behavioral health services to outpatient clients and their families.

Schedule: Tuesday through Thursday 5:00pm to 9:30pm (remote), Saturday 9:00am-3:30pm (in person)

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Provides short term and long term evidence based behavioral health services to patients and their families, including individual, family and group therapy. Provides care for patients with presenting symptoms such as behavioral problems, school, work and learning problems, attention problems, anxiety, depression, as well as others.
• Has training in and can implement behavioral health interventions such as individual psychotherapy, behavior modification techniques, family therapy, group therapy and crisis intervention.
• Expectations are a minimum of 80% of time is spent providing therapy. The expectation is that16 therapy sessions scheduled per week and 100% of notes are completed within 24 hours of session.
• Conducts clinical intake assessments and appropriate diagnosis. Issues and scores scales and measures to evaluated functioning and for diagnostic clarification
• Provides cases management and advocacy
• Consults and collaborates with the multidisciplinary health care team to ensure services are integrated into patient’s treatment.

Additional Functions:

• Performs other duties as assigned
• Actively participates in reflective supervision weekly
• Documents sessions and clinical activities within 24 hours of contact
• Attends department meetings and presents cases for review
• Collaborates with internal and external providers to promote comprehensive care
• Works with diverse client base
• Interfaces and collaborates with hospital multidisciplinary team

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: MS required, LCSW/Psy.D/Ph.D. in IL preferred

Related Work Experience: Professional experience in delivering behavioral health care to children and adolescents. Experience working with children on a multidisciplinary team, experience with trauma informed care, chronically ill children are highly desirable.

Licensure/Certification: Active LCSW license in good standing with the State of Illinois

CPR required: Only certifications issued by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross will be accepted. Covid 19 and Flu vaccination required

Attendance: Monday through Friday - Telehealth, Saturday availability in person

Additional Information

La Rabida Children’s Hospital is very proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

La Rabida is a place unlike any other. We understand the needs of families with children dealing with the most serious or complicated of conditions. With teams of the best healthcare providers in Chicago, we give continuous, comprehensive care, education, and support, helping families face their unique obstacles head-on.

La Rabida Children’s Hospital is very proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.