Bilingual Mental Health Therapist II - License Required
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WellPower envisions a community where every person’s mental health is fostered through strength, resilience and hope. We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support. Our Guiding Principles: Person Centered. We honor people’s identities, lived experience and journeys and treat every person with the dignity we all deserve.
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Position Summary: The position provides outpatient therapy across the lifespan to children, youth, adults, couples, and families. These services are uniquely tailored to the needs of each individual or family being served. This position provides a wide range of interventions that include (but are not limited to): diagnostic mental health assessments; individual, family, play, couples, and group psychotherapy; connection to case management support and psychiatric services; crisis intervention; coordination and ongoing communication with appropriate collaterals.
The individuals and families we work with present with a broad range of bio-psycho-social and mental health needs including trauma, depression, anxiety, attachment, family dynamics, and substance use, among others. This position is also responsible for maintaining compliance with documentation standards for all work performed. About El Centro: El Centro is a multicultural group of providers and supportive staff who offer Spanish/English bilingual integrated outpatient services across the lifespan, ages 5 years and up.
We bring a trauma-informed, strengths-based, relational, and culturally responsive lens to our work with families from Latino/a/x, Hispanic, and Chicano/a/x communities. Common themes we explore are migration and immigration, acculturation, grief and loss, intergenerational trauma, interpersonal violence, navigating systemic and structural barriers, and experiences of environmental stressors. Compensation & Benefits: LPC/LMFT/LCSW: $34.78/hour - $72,342.40/year LAC Differential - $1.00 Language Differential - $1-$2.50/hour for bilingual proficiency in Spanish or ASL For complete overview of our robust Benefits: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice/ The posted range represents the full hiring range.
Offers will not exceed this range, the majority of candidates are placed near the midpoint based on experience and qualifications. Responsibilities & Duties: Provide diagnostic mental health assessments as well as individual, family, play, couple, and/or group psychotherapy along with crisis intervention and case management support to assigned individual/ family. Develop treatment plans; monitor treatment progress and follow-up as clinically indicated.
Facilitate the individual and/or family’s growth and development with an emphasis on strengths, culture, resiliency, and wellbeing. Collaborate with internal and external partners to support the growth and development of those we serve. Facilitate the coordination of services for individuals/ families with supplemental needs in psychiatric, case management, and medical domains. Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation consistent with WellPower standards.
Participate in team/department meetings, trainings, and supervisory sessions as required. Maintain a trauma informed environment of wellbeing. Perform other duties as assigned. Requirements & Qualifications: Master’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or other human services field required. Licensed Required 2 years of experience