Job description

The Empowerment Center is looking for Licensed Mental Health Professionals (including Supervisees or Residents) for the Mental Health Program in the Norfolk/Tidewater location. This includes Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Mental Health Support, Community Stabilization which are short term interventions to stabilize and link individuals experiencing a mental health crisis with long-term support.

Do you have a passion working with Disabled Adults? The Empowerment Center is looking for a compassionate, dedicated individuals in Hampton Roads who want to Empower other Normal. You will empower individuals to address challenging and/or problematic behavior and to help adults make life-transforming changes. Treatment progress is made through intensive interventions such as skill building, changing unhelpful family interactions, and increasing social support, to name a few.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide direct clinician treatment using the person centered care and principles. Some principles include leveraging strengths and focusing on the positive, understanding sequences of behavior, and increasing mature behavior.
• Conduct a thorough assessment of the client and family: gather information on behaviors of concern and strengths in the family and their ecology to inform conceptualization of the problem behaviors and interactions within the family’s ecological context.
• Comfort working with a diverse community of clients.
• Continuously work to engage the primary caregiver, family members, supports, school, probation, and child welfare in change-orientated treatment.
• Dedicate time to weekly case planning and evaluation of case progress, with ongoing support from your supervisor and team members.
• Receive regular training, professional development, supervision, and consultation activities designed to help you acquire extensive clinical skills within the MST treatment model.
• Assure, along with fellow clinicians, that clients have access to 24/7 crisis support as needed.

Qualifications: Master degree in clinical counseling Psychology, Social work, or a related subject are required.

Must possess a valid driver’s license and have reliable transportation to travel to client’s home and possibly transport clients.

Preferred experience: Direct use pf pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies. Therapy with childcare and adults using cognitive-behavioral techniques. Couples therapy using behaviorally-based approaches. Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology (I.e., family, peer, school and neighborhood).

Collaboration and partnership within community agencies. Previous work providing in-home or community-based therapy services.

Salary: $55,000/year

For more information about Compass, visit our website at: https://compassva.com.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $55,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• On call
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Education:

• Master's (Required)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Required)
• License-eligible (LPC/LCSW) (Required)

Work Location: Multiple Locations

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Internship

Pay: $59,020.63 - $71,078.60 per year

Benefits:

• Professional development assistance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Chesapeake, VA 23320: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

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