School Based Therapist Mountain View Middle School

Primary Responsibilities

• Meet with students to assess needs, provide therapeutic support, and make appropriate referrals.
• Conduct intakes for new students as needed.
• Provide brief intervention, crisis intervention, and trauma-focused treatment services.
• Provide individual, family, and group counseling based on student needs.
• Organize, implement, and facilitate social skills groups and therapeutic groups.
• Complete assessments to support diagnosis, treatment planning, and progress monitoring.
• Maintain timely and accurate documentation in the agency's electronic health record.
• Develop, implement, evaluate, and revise treatment goals and plans in collaboration with program staff.
• Collaborate with school district personnel to support student treatment plans when appropriate.
• Provide immediate therapeutic crisis interventions and coordinate with Designated Crisis Responders and crisis services when necessary.
• Partner with families through meetings, outreach, coordination efforts, and resource connection activities.
• Coordinate with community systems and service providers to support student needs.
• Provide consultation, guidance, and coaching to school faculty as requested.
• Participate in classroom observations, staff presentations, family staffing meetings, and multidisciplinary team meetings as needed.
• Collaborate with outside providers involved in student care.
• Support program operations, including organizing supplies, assisting with program activities, supporting kitchen operations, and coordinating school-based activities as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree in psychology, social services, or behavioral health field.
• Minimum 2 years of job-related experience.
• Experience working with children within the structure of an intensive, milieu-based program.
• Agency Affiliated Counselor Registration.
• Qualification as a Child Mental Health Specialist.
• FBI fingerprinting per RCW 28A.400.303.
• Current CPR certification (or ability to obtain within 30 days of hire).

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of job-related experience.
• Experience working with the Special Education population.
• Educational or classroom management experience.
• Washington State licensure as LMHC, LICSW, LMFT, or BCBA without restrictions, active and in good standing for the previous two years.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of current trends in community mental health, including health care reform and automation of job tasks using computer technology.
• Knowledge of mental health rehabilitation standards.
• Knowledge of Cognitive/Behavioral therapy, Rational/Emotive therapy, behavioral modification, applied behavior analysis, and development theory.
• Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other employees, clients, organizations, and the public.
• Communicates clearly and concisely.
• Ability to operate a personal computer, fax machine, printer, and copier proficiently.
• Meet productivity standards.
• Work cooperatively and collaboratively as a team member.
• Work well with children and families.