Therapist (Full-time, Part-Time or Contract)

Methodist Counseling Clinic; Jonesboro (AR); On-site; USD 48,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Methodist Family Health in Jonesboro, AR seeks a licensed behavioral health clinician to provide diagnostic assessments and individual, family, and group therapies in clinic and school settings. You will develop treatment plans with clients and families, participate in treatment team meetings, ensure regulatory compliance, and maintain timely documentation and communication with partners.

A master’s degree in social work or related field is required along with Arkansas licensure

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling or related field.
• Licensed by Arkansas Professional Board as LMSW/LCSW/LPC/LPE or PhD.
• Experience in school-based or community behavioral health settings.
• Experience with at-risk youth.
• Trauma Focused CBT certification or in progress.
• Other specialized training/certification (e.g. play therapy, EMDR)
• Ability to be flexible with schedule.
• Experience using Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and professional documentation.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical services: diagnostic assessment, individual, family, and group therapies, and crisis intervention.
• Work in clinic and school settings; may involve community-based settings.
• Develop treatment plans with clients, families and treatment team; perform reviews.
• Participate in department meetings, trainings and supervision.
• Coordinate scheduling, authorizations, transfers and discharges; ensure timely documentation and communication.
• Ensure compliance with Medicaid, Joint Commission and other regulations; maintain records.

Skills

Clinical

Trauma-focused CBT

EMR experience

Documentation

Flexibility

Education

Master’s degree in Social Work or related field

Tools

Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

Job description

Job Details

Posting Details

• Posted on October 21, 2026

Locations

Showing 1 location
Jonesboro OP
CC Jonesboro
Jonesboro, AR 72401, USA

• Outpatient/School Based
• Full-Time
• Requisition #: CONTR002212

Description

Responsibilities

Provide direct clinical services that includes, but are not limited to diagnostic assessment, individual, family, and group therapies and crisis intervention. These services will be provided in a clinic-setting, school setting, but may also include community-based settings as needed and appropriate including meeting HIPAA standards (i.e. client’s home, courts, Boys & Girls Club, etc.).

Develop treatment plans in cooperation with clients, families and treatment team members and perform reviews/updates specific to organization policies and procedures, state and federal regulations.

Participate in departmental and program treatment team meetings, staff meetings, trainings and supervision.

Work with administrative support and utilization review staff to facilitate scheduling, prior and continuing authorizations for services, and transfers/discharges.

Complete all clinical and administrative processes, including documentation, in compliance with organization, department and program policies and procedures, and applicable state and federal regulations (Medicaid, Joint Commission, insurance, etc.) as it relates to content and timeframes for assessments, treatment plans and review, progress notes, services provided, billing, meeting direct care expectations, etc.

Provide timely communication verbally and in writing with supervisor, colleagues, clients, families, schools, courts, other professionals within and outside the organization, etc. This includes returning phone calls, writing letters, emails, etc.

Work with other professionals and programs within the MFH continuum of care and/or other outside organizations and agencies to coordinate the best and most appropriate treatment for MFH clients including transfers and referrals to other programs or agencies as needed.

Assist in preparation for and help to maintain compliance with state and federal licensing and accreditation regulations (i.e. Medicaid, Joint Commission, Dept. of Human Services, Dept. of Health, etc.) as appropriate and needed.

Maintain professional licensure by completing required continuing education and providing copies of updated license and CEU certificates to Human Resources.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling or related field.

Licensed, in good standing, by Arkansas Professional Board as an LMSW, LCSW, LAC, LPC, LPE, LPE-I, or PhD.

Experience working in a school-based or community based behavioral health setting.

Experience working with at-risk youth.

Trauma Focused CBT certified or in progress.

Other specialized training/certification or in progress (i.e. play therapy, EMDR, etc.).

Ability to be flexible with schedule.

Experience working in an Electronic Medical Record.

Ability to document accurately and professionally.

Must be physically capable to receive verbal and written directions.

Remains current in Crisis Prevention Intervention Training, CPR & First Aid.

Must be willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health, regardless of gender.

Must have good auditory, visual and olfactory ability.

Use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.

Must be able to maintain effective audio, visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading and writing, and operating office equipment and other treatment equipment.

Must be able to use a telephone to communicate verbally and a computer to communicate through written means, to review information and enter/retrieve data, to see and read characters on a computer screen, chart or other treatment items.

Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time and intermittently walk, stand, stoop, kneel, crouch and reach with hands and arms.

Flu shot is mandatory and required for all positions (subject to qualified exemptions).

Other

The individual employed in this position may accept other reasonable assignments, which may be necessary, for efficient operation of assigned programs as there is time and opportunity.

Job descriptions are not intended, nor should be construed, to be all-inclusive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.

When an employee performs two or more different jobs, for which different straight time hourly rates are established, the employee will be paid during overtime hours as a rate not less than one and one-half time the hourly rate established for the type of work he or she is performing during the overtime hours.

Level One - Full Access

Ongoing regular access to PHI of all forms while the employee is on duty and performing within the scope of his or her job as defined by the employee's job description, and Policy and Procedure. "Such access must be for cause, consistent with job responsibilities and related to patients, claims, audits, reviews and other legitimate business purposes." (e.g. Physicians, nurses and other clinicians).

Education

Required

Masters or better.

Preferred

PHD or better.

Licenses & Certifications

Preferred

Lic. Pysch. Examiner Lic. Prof. Counselor Lic. Master Soc. Worker Lic. Clinical Soc. Worker Lic. Associate Counselor

Equal Opportunity Employer

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