UPMC’s Wexford Acute Partial and IOP is looking for a Mental Health Worker Associate to join the team! Wexford Acute Partial and IOP supports adolescents experiencing acute symptoms of depression and anxiety. Our program supports adolescents in stabilizing their mental health before stepping down to a lower level of care, such as outpatient. A main goal of our program is to assist adolescents in maintaining safety without the need for psychiatric hospitalization.

Our programs are empirically based and focus on teaching adolescents skills, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Behavior Therapy.

Our Mental Health Worker will facilitate group therapy and support our patients on the milieu.

Responsibilities:

In cooperation with the team, develop, assess, facilitate and monitor group activities for the patients. Monitor daily progress notes, data collection, summarization, and graphing for assigned patients. This includes but is not limited to educational, behavioral and skills development programs as well as research protocols. Work effectively and cooperatively in a trans-disciplinary environment, served by the supervision of several senior staff. Participate in the development, implementation and monitoring of behavioral and functional assessments of the patients. Promote professional rapport with co-workers, patients, and visitors to the Institute. Coordinate the data management involved in program evaluation and report these findings to other clinical community members. Assess and monitor skills development programming (cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, expressive, social skills, process) for the patients. Assist in monitoring patient satisfaction (teachers, parents, child, outside agency)