THERAPIST (LICENSED)

San Marcos Treatment Center; San Marcos (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

San Marcos Treatment Center, a 212-bed psychiatric residential treatment facility located between Austin and San Antonio, seeks a licensed clinician to provide direct behavioral health services to children and adolescents. The role involves assessments, diagnosis, treatment planning, and delivering individual, group, and family therapy within an interdisciplinary team.

Responsibilities include case management, patient and family education, and discharge planning.

Qualifications

• LPC, LPC-Associate, LCSW, LMSW, LMFT, or LMFT-Associate licensure in TX
• Ability to provide short term individual, group and family therapy
• Excellent computer skills; proficient in MS Word; ability to produce polished clinical documents

Responsibilities

• Provide direct behavioral healthcare services to children and adolescents in residential treatment
• Conduct assessments, diagnosis and treatment planning
• Deliver individual, group and family therapy
• Perform case management activities and patient/family education
• Assist with discharge and aftercare planning

Job description

Responsibilities

San Marcos Treatment Center, a 212-bed, seclusion free, psychiatric residential treatment facility located between Austin and San Antonio in the heart of Central Texas! San Marcos spreads across 65-acres with an abundance of trees and wildlife. We have 13 unique living units separated by gender, age, and development levels with two swimming pools, two gymnasiums, sports court, playing fields, ropes course, canteen, social area, and a healing trail. We provide 24-hour psychiatric care to girls and boys ages 6 to 17 with customized therapeutic approaches and intensive behavioral programs teach young patients to moderate their behavior, manage emotions and improve social functioning. As a member of the clinical team, this position functions as a member of an interdisciplinary team within the organization/program, documents services in the clinical record, engages in inter-organizational care, coordination, and documents service outcomes. Responsible and accountable for providing direct behavioral healthcare services to children adolescents with mental illness in residential treatment programs, including assessments, diagnosis, treatment planning, individual, group, and family therapy, case management activities, patient and family education, and discharge and aftercare planning.

Join a clinical team of highly motivated professionals who are growing, learning and presenting evidence based practices at national conferences and sharing the following areas of expertise

• Play therapy
• Garden based therapy
• Ropes
• Nurtured Heart
• DBT
• Smart Recovery
• Screamfree Parenting
• Trauma Focused Yoga

Qualifications

Requirements

• TX LPC, LPC-Associate, LCSW, LMSW, LMFT, or LMFT-Associate
• Ability to provide effective short term individual, group and family therapy services
• Exceptional computer skills, proficiency in MS Word and capacity to produce polished desktop clinical documents utilizing computer templates and formats with attention to detail
• Exceptional organizational, prioritization and time management skills
• Ability to establish and maintain customer-oriented services and behavior resulting in positive satisfaction. Function in a manner consistent with Service Excellence standards as applied to both external and internal customers
• Flexibility regarding schedule and availability for evening and weekend family therapy
• RPT strongly encouraged

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.