Job Description:

Facility: WOODRIDGE INTERVENTIONS

Salary: $26.00 per hour

Bonus (if applicable): $5,000.00 Hiring Bonus

Shift:

Benefits: Full-time employees will enjoy a competitive benefits package for an energized workforce with options for you and your family including:

• Paid time off        • Paid holidays         • 401(k)
• 401(k) matching      • Health Insurance        • Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance       • Life Insurance          • Flexible spending account
• Health savings account    • Tuition Reimbursement     • Reduced tuition rates
• Employee discount     • Employee assistance program • Pet insurance
• Disability Insurance     • Paid training           • Other benefits available

Equal Opportunity Employer.

Abraxas Youth and Family Services is a national leader in the operation of residential treatment facilities and community-based programs for troubled

Woodridge Interventions is hiring a full-time Therapist, a LPC or LSW with a minimum of 2 years of experience post-clinical licensure working with adolescents with substance use disorders

                                      $5,000 Hiring Bonus

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Woodridge Interventions

2221 64th Street

Woodridge, IL 60517

http://woodridgeinterventions.com/

 Pay range from $26.00 per hour to $27.00 per hour.

At Abraxas Youth & Family Services, we believe our job is to help improve people's lives.

Changing one life changes everything.

Abraxas Youth and Family Services is a national leader in the operation of residential treatment facilities and community-based programs for troubled youth and their families. We offer a wide array of services to include life skills, mental health services, cognitive behavioral therapy, family counseling, drug and alcohol treatment, case management services, recreational activities as well as vocational and educational services. Abraxas is a great place to start your career whether you have a high school diploma or GED, military experience, some college, or a bachelor or advanced degree.  If you are interested in counseling, juvenile justice, psychology, social work, teaching or just want to make a difference, we have a career path for you. Help change lives at Abraxas Youth and Family Services.

 

SUMMARY

The family therapist as part of a multi-disciplinary team will bring a family oriented perspective to treatment. She/He will be responsible for addressing a wide range of relationship, emotional, and mental health issues within a family systems perspective. The family therapist will also develop and conduct family education groups on family systems and substance abuse.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Assesses the family therapy needs of individual clients and their families.


• Participates in clinical staffing and contributes family-centered treatment concepts in the development of service/treatment plans.


• Provides family-centered individual/group/joint counseling/therapy as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Provide milieu management as needed and other counseling duties as assigned.


• Develops and facilitates education groups on substance abuse/mental health and family dynamics.


• Responsible for clinical documentation, i.e. progress notes, patient assessments, service/treatment plans and other forms/records as required in a timely manner.


• Interacts with other professionals, agencies, as needed, to provide effective treatment.


• Is able to identify opportunities for program improvement, uses appropriate improvement tools techniques to address potential quality issues within the program/facility and actively participates in quality improvement initiatives/activities.


• Maintains all certification and/or licensing requirements and remains abreast of the latest development in the field.


• Adheres to confidentiality requirements.


• Attends mandatory inservices.


• Knowledge of the procedures to follow in the event of an incident


• Knowledge of job responsibility in emergency.


• Knowledge of responsibility regarding actions to minimize, eliminate, and report risks.

Minimum Requirements

• Masters degree in marriage and family therapy from a regionally accredited educational institution or other related field i.e. social work, counseling, clinical psychology, or substance abuse counseling; plus two (2) years counseling experience; CADC, CMADC, LSW, LPC, LMFT, LAMFT, or LCPC required.

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