Milieu Clinician

Mount Prospect Academy; Plymouth (NH); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and HR

403(b) retirement plan with company-m

Company‑paid life and AD&D insurance

Disability coverage

Paid time off and sick time accrual

No-cost telemedicine

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Housing options

Job summary

Mount Prospect Academy seeks a dedicated Milieu Mental Health Clinician to provide therapeutic support to adolescents within our milieu programs. You will deliver counseling, develop treatment plans, and collaborate with the treatment team to promote student wellbeing and growth.

We offer comprehensive benefits and opportunities to work in a mission-driven nonprofit environment focused on empowering youth and families facing mental health challenges.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or related field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience counseling adolescents and/or families.

Responsibilities

• Write and present comprehensive assessments to faculty, referrals, families, and administration.
• Monitor and support residential staff adherence to programming and treatment plans.
• Develop short-term treatment plans with residents and families.
• Liaise with contracting agencies, advocates, and guardians.

Skills

Counseling

Adolescents

Team collaboration

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Kaleidacare

Job description

We are currently hiring motivated, energetic and career-oriented individuals for all positions and invite you to attend to find out more about our community of over 500 faculty, spanning four states. If you’re looking to advance, change or launch your career, while making a difference in the lives of youth and families, struggling with behavioral and mental health issues, Mount Prospect Academy may be the place for you.

Current Openings

Location: Plymouth, NH

Job Id:3410

# of Openings:1

Join Us in Empowering Youths and Making a Difference.

Milieu Mental Health Clinician
Reports to:Clinical Director

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Location: Plymouth, NH

We are seeking a dedicated Mental Health Clinician to join our compassionate team, where you will have the opportunity to make a profound impact on the lives of young people. In this vital role, you will provide expert therapeutic support, guidance, and care to adolescents navigating a range of emotional, psychological, and behavioral challenges. Your commitment to fostering a safe and nurturing environment will empower our youth to develop resilience, self-understanding, and positive coping strategies, enabling them to thrive. Join us in our mission to cultivate hope and promote mental wellness for the next generation.

Shared Employee Affordable Housing Available

Company Background
Welcome to Mount Prospect Academy (MPA), a rapidly growing nonprofit agency founded in 2003, with the goal of helping struggling adolescents find a “zest for life" and succeed in the “business of life.”

MPA has evolved to offer a variety of mental health support services to a diverse population of “hard to treat” and “difficult to place” adolescents. Our targeted services include home and community-based treatment, residential treatment programs, group homes, and special education schools. MPA is known for its ability to achieve successful outcomes with difficult-to-serve individuals throughout New England.

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Mission:
MPA’smission is to provide a caring, safe therapeutic environment where students have the opportunity to grow and acquire the skills they need to reach their educational and social potential. We aim to develop trusting relationships with students and facilitate experiences that promote their ability to self-regulate; manage thoughts and feelings; and develop feelings of safety, confidence, and competency.

Summary:
The Milieu Clinician (MC) role is to provide culturally sensitive, therapeutic service to the students withintheircaseload. Milieu Clinicians use formal counseling and therapy techniques in otherwise less conventional treatment settings. Counseling is less commonly provided within the office setting but rather in the Milieu and during club and activity programming. MC's help establish lifelong connections, providing clinical support for youths and their families and assist in overcoming obstacles, identifying strengths and developing supports to ensure the youth overcome their challenges and achieve success. MC' s use a wide variety of approaches and are commonly supporting student programming while modeling socially acceptable behaviors.
This will provide an excellent learning experience for MC's, as they are expected to develop comprehensive assessment plans with the residents and then become familiar with presenting these to administration, faculty, referral sources, etc. In addition, MC’s are will build a positive therapeutic rapport with their assigned students while working to enhance accountability through utilization of restorative justice planning. MC's are the overarching facilitator of youth treatment and relay the goals and objectives within the treatment plan to the respective treatment team members. The Milieu Clinician provides training's regarding effective treatment modalities to the Milieu faculty members that aids in driving the treatment of the student. The MC's provides documentation via soap notes in the Kaleidacare system for individual sessions, group counseling notes for situations where there is more than one student as well as completes assigned documentation tasks as outlined below. The MC meets with the respective treatment team members to assist in reaching the ultimate permanency plan goal. Common MC responsibilities include development and implementation of treatment plans, behavioral support plans, safety plans, court reports, monthly progress reports and assessment reports.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Writing and presenting comprehensive assessments to faculty, referrals, families, and administration.
• Responsible for ensuring residential staff adhere to the appropriate programming and treatment plans for the individual.
• Monitor all aspects of day-to-day operations, supervision of program directors and monitoring and evaluating client services delivery.
• Working with residents and families on development of short-term treatment plans.
• Act as agency liaison with contracting agencies, advocates and guardians.
• Maintain records for contact compliance.
• Develop and maintain community, governmental and other public and private resources and relationships and actively participate in professional organizations.
• Support oversight of the program budget.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well‑being, and work‑life balance:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) options
• $0 urgent care copay (based on medical plan selection)
• 403(b) retirement plan with company match after one year
• Company‑paid life and AD&D insurance
• Short‑ and long‑term disability coverage
• Paid time off and sick time accrual
• No‑cost telemedicine through First Stop Health
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Additional perks that set us apart include:

• Legal services, identity, and fraud protection
• Employee discount programs
• Outdoor adventure perks, professional development opportunities, and shared affordable housing options

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Master's Degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or related field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience counseling adolescents and/or families.

Mount Prospect Academy assures equal opportunity and public access and, if necessary, affirmative action in all its policies regarding employment and provision of services. MPA does not discriminate in its hiring, programs or policies on the bases of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.

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