Youth Therapist

Job Summary 

Intensive Home-Based Treatment Therapist

NEW SIGN ON BONUS AND QUARTERLY INCENTIVES!!!

We are currently offering a sign-on bonus of $5,000 and up to $2,000 quarterly depending on start date through March 2025! 

Our Intensive Home-Based Treatment Team is expanding! Positions available for East and West sides of Cuyahoga County. Please indicate preference when applying. 

The Intensive Home-Based Treatment Therapist will provide intensive services to a small caseload of 5-6 youth, that are diagnosed with emotional and/or behavioral problems, and their families, with the goal of either preventing out-of-home placement or facilitating a successful transition back to the home. The IHBT Therapist is responsible for assessment, diagnosis, individual and family counseling, therapeutic behavioral support/care coordination, and crisis intervention and stabilization. Services are provided within the community and home with the availability of telehealth as clinically indicated. Smaller caseloads allow for more personal attention to individual clients to promote improved outcomes.   

 
Job Qualifications 

• Master’s degree in Social Work, or Counseling with a minimum of LSW/LPC. Will consider a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work with a LSW AND 3+ years of clinical experience including diagnostic assessments.
• Must have a valid driver’s license in the State of Ohio with reliable transportation and be able to travel to families.
• Experience working with youth, families, and systems preferred. 

Job Responsibilities 

• Provide mental and behavioral health treatment to clients and family members with availability for crisis intervention and stabilization by phone outside of sessions for IHBT clients.
• Participate in IHBT trainings, weekly supervision, and professional consultations to ensure adherence to the fidelity of the IHBT model.
• Co-create safety plans with the family as indicated by the safety assessment.
• Utilize the IHBT continuing care planning criteria to determine level of involvement and/or linkages to formal supports and resources.
• Consult with Probation Officers, Children Service Workers, school staff and other treatment providers to optimize care.
• Integrate behavioral health with the client’s health needs and refer for appropriate medical, dental, psychiatric, and other psychosocial service needs.
• Responsible for the timely completion of clinical documentation in accordance with applicable licensing and accreditation regulations and standards.
• Maintain frequency of contact with clients per IHBT fidelity. 

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. 
Diversity & Inclusion: Self-aware, attentive listener, people-oriented, cognizant of bias, cultural intelligence; demonstrating a respect for divergent viewpoints; an awareness of and sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the population served, thereby contributing to an environment that is equitable, inclusive, and cooperative. 
Flexibility: Adapts effectively to change by accepting changes in processes readily and with an optimistic perspective of the resulting benefits; readily accepts new technology as part of his/her job and uses it to continually improve efficiency or the quality of his/her work products. 

Physical Demands/Work Environment 

This job operates primarily in a community/home. This role routinely uses standard office equipment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak and hear. The employee is frequently required to sit for extended periods of time, stand, walk, use hands and fingers, and reach with hands and arms. It requires the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand as necessary. Travel and work outside of normal hours may be required for client care, meetings, presentations, trainings, and other events. 

About The Centers  

The Centers fights for equity by healing, teaching, and inspiring individuals and families to reach their full potential. We provide health, family, and workforce services at 11 locations throughout Greater Cleveland, creating life-changing solutions for people to lead healthier and more successful lives. We provide high-quality healthcare to everyone who comes through our doors, regardless of their ability to pay. Our health care services include mental and physical health care, primary care, dental, behavioral health urgent care, pharmacy services, addiction and substance use treatment, HIV/AIDS prevention and support services, along with trauma recovery service. We strive to be an equitable, anti-racist, and service-oriented workplace that pioneers and co-creates solutions while fostering an inclusive community where our team members thrive.

Wellbeing and Benefits  

Providing quality benefits to our staff is important to us. Just as important is our staff’s well-being. That’s why we offer a number of choices to meet the different needs of our staff. 

• Choice of medical and dental plans
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account for Health and Dependent Care
• Vision
• Support for continuing education and credential renewal
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Savings (401k) with a company contribution
• Mental Health Support  
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Calm Subscription 
• Short and Longterm Disability 

We are a National Health Service Corps site. You may be eligible to receive substantial assistance towards paying off your student loan debt. To learn more visit https://bhw.hrsa.gov/funding/apply-loan-repayment#nhsclrp