Clinician Therapist- Building Bridges bei Easterseals PORT Health

What You’ll Do:

The Building Bridges Clinician provides home based family services to address the various issues of juvenile repeat offenders and their families including but not limited to mental health issues, substance abuse, domestic violence, and family criminality.

• Conducts assessments including review of referral information, identifying and engaging key participants, identifying systemic strengths and weaknesses, and developing an analysis of the fit of problem behaviors within the ecological context.
• Engages primary caregivers and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement.
• Collaborates with all relevant systems and key participants within each system to ensure their buy-in and cooperation throughout treatment.
• Provides direct clinical treatment using methods compatible with elements of the program.
• Diffuses crises, evaluate nature of crises, and intervene to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence.
• Ensures linkage to needed community services and resources.
• Arranges, coordinates, and monitors other services on behalf of the individual served.
• Monitors and manages the presenting psychiatric and/or addiction symptoms.
• Provides psychoeducational activities, parenting skills training and living skill training for youth and family.
• Works with parents/caregivers in the implementation of home-based behavioral supports.
• Provides or arranges crisis management, intensive case management, individual and/or family therapy, substance abuse intervention, skills training, and other rehabilitative supports to prevent the need for an out-of-home, more restrictive service.
• Provides “first responder” crisis response on a 24/7/365 basis to recipients.
• Participates in all scheduled training, supervision and consultation activities.
• Must be able to drive for work purposes on a regular basis.

How You’ll Benefit

Being part of our team means we value and encourage your personal growth and development.  You’ll earn a salary of $60,000-$69,000 based on your experience; we offer competitive benefits to benefits eligible positions.

Our benefits include:

• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Health Benefits + an optional Flexible Health Spending Account (FSA)
• Life Insurance, Disability Insurance and more
• 403(b) Retirement Plan
• Employee Assistance Program and Legal services, when needed.

What We’re Looking For:

To join our team, you must provide modeling, positive reinforcement, redirection and anticipatory guidance within recovery and strengths-based principles to help develop the independence of the person and/or family served. We also require: 

• Must be either a licensed or board eligible/provisional licensed professional (LPC, LPA, LMFT, LCSW).
• Must have a minimum of one (1) year documented experience with population.
• Must have a valid, unrestricted, state appropriate driver’s license.

If you seek a rewarding career opportunity where you can make a huge difference in the daily lives of the people you will help, then please apply now at our website:  www.eastersealsucp.com

About Easterseals PORT Health

Easterseals PORT Health is a trustworthy, compassionate partner providing exceptional disability, behavioral health and addiction treatment services to help our neighbors live their best lives. Our diverse and inclusive 2,600-member team provides meaningful support to 40,200 kids, adults and families in 11,000 home, facility and community locations across North Carolina and Virginia.

Our working environment supports employee and client health with a ‘no tobacco’ use policy (tobacco free and smoke free) in all offices, client facilities, properties, and agency vehicles.

We believe that by leveraging the unique strengths and perspectives of our workforce, we can advance our just cause, while building a healthy, sustainable organization. That’s why we listen, seek to understand & act to make ESPH an Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, Authentic & Learning (IDEAL) organization.

Applicants of all abilities are encouraged to apply!