Mobile Therapist

About the Role

Elwyn is seeking a Mobile Therapist to provide outreach services to individuals with serious mental illness in their home settings. As a key member of our team, you will work with individuals to access, link, coordinate, and monitor needed services, providing support and advocacy along the way.

Responsibilities

• Preparing and maintaining timely, accurate, and complete records
• Participating as a team member to improve the overall effectiveness of one's work group and to achieve group goals
• Ensuring interventions and supports are delivered in a way that incorporates consistency, flexibility, and responsiveness to changing client needs
• Involving clients in identifying and coordinating treatment issues
• Empowering clients through therapeutic rapport, advocacy, and skill building
• Exhibiting proficiency with benefit and entitlement options to maximize treatment planning opportunities
• Coordinating emergency psychiatric services within a timely manner, including documenting interventions, alternatives considered, and response of client/client family, and supporting agencies

Qualifications

• Master's degree in counseling, social work, clinical psychology or closely related discipline required. Licensure preferred (LPC,LCSW) but not required. (Individual and group clinical supervision is offered to applicants working toward licensure.)
• A commitment to community-based mental health services
• Thorough understanding of the biopsychosocial aspects of mental illnesses and counseling techniques, including use of evidenced-based practices
• Familiar with and motivated to use a strength-based, person-centered approach to treatment
• State driver's license and record in good standing
• Computer literacy
• Working effectively and cooperatively with co-workers (e.g., peers, management)

Travel Required

All sessions will occur in residences/community

Physical Demands/Environmental Profile

See Physical Demands Checklist below which represents the general physical demands and environment conditions to which the employee holding this position must meet, in addition to the duties and responsibilities listed above, to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Elwyn will engage otherwise qualified candidates for this position whose disabilities may require reasonable accommodations to enable an individual to perform the essential functions.