Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish is strongly preferred

What is School Based Therapy at Washburn?

Our compassionate, experienced therapists support children and their families through challenging times by offering individual therapy to help with a wide range of concerns, including school adjustment problems, depression, anxiety, difficulty dealing with loss or family changes, abuse, traumatic events, attention problems, parent-child conflicts and acting-out behaviors. Our counseling focuses on building on a child’s strengths and supporting them in gaining skills to be successful at home, in school and in the community.

As a school-based mental health clinician you focus will be on assessment, treatment, and prevention services to children and their families as well as consultation and training for the school staff.

As a successful candidate you should hold independent licensure at LICSW, LPCC, LP, or LMFT or hold an LGSW working towards independent licensure and be able to demonstrate your skill in children’s mental health diagnostic assessment and treatment.

What can Washburn Center offer you?

Washburn Center for Children is committed to all our employees’ professional development. During your time at Washburn Center, you will receive continuous clinical training, increased supervision time and exposure to a wide array of clinical needs. This role is a highly collaborative function, and you will experience exposure to all programs at Washburn Center, working in collaboration with a variety of experienced professionals to ensure the best care for the children and families in your care.

Responsibilities

Our school-based therapists, working in collaboration with the school staff and Washburn Center leadership, provide a combination of the school-based services within the school, clients’ homes, and across the community.

These services can be:

• Conduct diagnostic assessments (DA) and share feedback with the client and / or their family
• Collaborate with the client and / or their family on treatment plan that incorporates DA results
• Provide individual and family therapy
• Participate in IEP meetings
• Provide care coordination, including collaboration with psychiatrists and other professionals working with the client
• Create a discharge plan

Ancillary care:

As a school-based therapist you will also provide ancillary services in alignment with the school staff and Washburn Center supervisor, including:

• Conduct child group therapy, skills training, and/or prevention groups
• Provide care coordination, including collaboration with parents, school staff, and other agencies
• Participate in classroom observations
• Provide teacher consultations, training, and support
• Attend collaboration and planning meetings with school staff, program directors, and grant coordinators to review the status of the program and manage referrals in order to facilitate program development and the coordination of the program at the school

Documentation:

Additionally, some of your responsibilities as a School based therapist will be to maintain required documentation as outlined in our Clinical Policy Manual, ie:

• Diagnostics assessments
• Treatment plans
• Progress notes
• Outcome measures (e,g, SDQ, CASII, ECSII)
• Discharge summaries
• Timely record keeping of all clinical activities and grant related services
• Timely response of communications from the program director, the supervisor, or program support to ensure clear communication throughout the program

***All clinicians are to ensure Minnesota and HIPAA data privacy requirements are followed.***

As Washburn Center for Children serves the community, it is important that our therapists are able to demonstrate cultural humility and responsiveness in their therapeutic process and in their interpersonal relationships. Our work environment requires professionals that can adapt and be flexible within multiple workplace cultures. Our clinicians work independently but will always have a team and supervisor to support them and guide them when needed.

Starting salary range (based on licensure status at hire):
Clinical Trainee base salary: $60,000 to $65,000 annually
Fully Licensed base salary: $70,000 to $80,000 annually

Education and Licensure Requirements:

• Master’s degree in psychology, marriage and family therapy, or social work (Required)
• Doctoral Degree in psychology, marriage and family therapy, or social work (Desired)
• A minimum of 3-5 years assessing, diagnosing and treating children and families (Required)
• Fully licensed or close to licensure in LICSW, LMFT, LPCC or LP (Required)
• Valid MN Licensure as a Mental Health Professional (Required)

Required technical skills, knowledge, and abilities

• Demonstrate knowledge of cultural diversity and the role of culture in the therapeutic process
• Adaptable to multiple workplace cultures
• Ability to work independently
• Understand when to ask questions