Associate Individual Therapist

Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love-and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.

Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.

The Associate Individual Therapist conducts assessments, develops and executes treatment plans, facilitates individual and group therapy, and provides clinical support to the program as needed.

Essential Duties:

• Facilitate individual and group sessions with adolescents/young adults within the framework of Newport Healthcare's clinical model.
• Coordinate treatment goals and services in collaboration with client's treatment team, with 30-day treatment plan reviews and updates.
• Provide progress updates to parents in collaboration with family therapist.
• Provide milieu management and crisis intervention as needed.
• Complete documentation, treatment plans, progress and group notes, and discharge summary timely and according to established standards.
• Attend weekly treatment team meetings, staff meetings, and clinical supervision.
• Participate in training and supervision as assigned by supervisor.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

• Profesionalism.Demonstrates professional behavior reflective of Newport Healthcare's Mission Statement, Philosophy and Values.
• Customer Focus. Actively demonstrates a dedication to meeting the expectations and requirements from internal and external customers; gets firsthand information and uses it for improvements in products and services; always acts with the customer or patient in mind.
• Credibility. Consistently demonstrates through conduct and communications the stability required to credibly and effectively assist clients.
• Alignment. Clinical style aligns with Newport Healthcare's therapeutic approach.
• Cultural Competency. Demonstrates cultural
• Patient Rights. Possesses a strong working knowledge of Patient's Rights.
• Interpersonal Savvy. Must be able to relate well to all kinds of people both inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Problem Solving. Probes all relevant sources for answers, looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers; uses logic and all information available to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Currently enrolled and in good standing in a Master's degree program with a focus in counseling, psychology, social work, or related field, or Doctorate program, from an accredited or state approved graduate school required.
• Ability to be Board registered (APCC, LAPC, ASW, AMFT, MHCA) or Psychologic Associate in the state in which services are provided upon graduation of master's program.
• Minimum one year experience as a Counselor or three years residential supervisor, in good standing, with a Newport Healthcare program, requiring a letter of recommendation from Supervisor.

Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.

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