Mobile Therapist
Sevita
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**DISCOVER CAREERS, WELL LIVED.** Our mission at Sevita is to create a world where every person has the right to live well. As a Caregiver, you’ll provide assistance and strategies to the individuals we serve to help them live well in their community and environment. Each day, the connections you make and the compassion you bring make a difference in the lives of our participants. You’ll work alongside a dedicated team of clinical staff and supportive supervisors, while you grow your career.
**OUR MISSION AND PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS**
The MENTOR Network is a mission-based organization dedicated to providing high quality services to those we serve. Therefore, to deliver on our mission, The Network expects every employee to perform his or her job first and foremost in accordance with the Company’s mission.
**SUMMARY**
Provides psychotherapy to individuals to aid a client or consumer in problems of living with the goal of increasing an individual's sense of their own well-being. Employs a range of techniques based on experiential relationship building, dialogue, communication and behavior change that is designed to improve the mental health of a client or patient, or to improve group relationships (such as in a family).
**ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS**
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below:
+ Conducts psychosocial assessments to document history and identify preliminary issues for treatment by interviewing the child and family (if applicable), and transcribing or dictating relevant information for client records.
+ Provides individual, family and/or group therapies using various treatment modalities.
+ Develops individualized treatment plans in coordination with interdisciplinary team to include but may not be limited to:The Department of Children and Families, District Family Safety/Community Based Care Provider, Juvenile Justice Counselor (if applicable), and child targeted case manager (if one is assigned)
+ Works with members of the interdisciplinary team to coordinate other treatment initiatives including school performance, permanency, and reunification planning.
+ Develops and coordinates discharge plan based on treatment, indicating all relevant aftercare needs and plans.Accesses community resources that would be beneficial to client aftercare needs.
+ Attends regular treatment team staffing and level of care meetings.
+ Conducts educational groups for clients, families and foster parents. Provides documentation of foster parent educational in-services to adhere to foster parent licensing standards, assuring that the skills needed for treatment plan in the home environment are learned.
+ Prepares and trains the child’s biological or legal parents to resume care of their child when reunification is the goal (if applicable to the population being served).
+ Maintains current, legible and adequate medical record documentation in client’s chart.Assures that all required client documentation is in their chart, including any foster parent and/or outside agency documentation pertaining to the client.
+ Conducts regularly scheduled face-to-face meetings with client and caretaker in order to monitor the child’s progress and discuss treatment strategies and services.Attends regular staff meetings, clinical meeting and one-on-one sessions with direct supervisor to process current status of cases.
+ Performs other related duties and activities as required.
**SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES**
None required
**Minimum Knowledge and Skills required by the Job**
_The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job:_
**_Education and Experience:_**
+ Master’s Degree in human services field
+ Three years’ experience.
**_Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations:_**
+ Licensed as required by state.
**_Other Skills and Abilities:_**
+ N/A
**_Other Requirements:_**
+ N/A
**_Physical Requirements:_**
+ **Light work.** Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.
**AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT STATEMENT**
External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined on a case by case basis via the interactive process.
Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face. We’ve made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve.
_As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law._
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