Therapist for Gwinnett County

Georgia Families in Transition is looking for individuals to join our community-based mental health team!

Job description

The Supervised Therapist position is focused on providing intensive in-home individual/family mental health counseling using evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches of care for children and adolescents at high risk of out of home placement or returning home from inpatient or residential treatment.

• Job Duties and Responsibilities
• Providing individual/family mental health counseling using evidence based and trauma informed approaches of care.
• Providing individual/family mental health skill building services
• Commitment to providing consistent, ongoing services to clients.
• Participate in coordination of care with a multi-disciplinary treatment team.
• Coordinating with a team to provide crisis intervention as necessary to enhance and restore functioning.
• Meet or exceed agency required productivity and documentation standards.
• Must be flexible to work after-school hours and weekends to accommodate clients served.
• Travel is required within Gwinnett County, as well as to neighboring counties located within an hour or less, to conduct in-person client sessions.
• Other duties as assigned

Core Competencies • Interpersonal Skills & Communication

• Demonstrated emotional intelligence with an ability to balance an empathy forward response with families and throughout the organization. Enjoys working closely with other people to understand their concerns and seeks out the ways our workplace might address them. Able to use storytelling to advance a concept or idea.
• Professionalism: Confidence, articulation, ability to receive criticism and feedback well. Ability to resolve conflicts.
• Organization &
• Time
• Management: Organizes work, effectively prioritizes, and sets short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them. Aligns communication, people, processes, and resources to drive success. Organizes information and data to identify/explain trends, problems, and their causes.
• Teamwork &
• Collaboration: Contributes to common goal, maintains open communication with team members, asks for help when necessary, encourages involvement.