Mental Health Clinician

Position Summary: The Mental health practitioner provides screenings, referrals, care coordination, case management and program monitoring for children and adolescents. Develops treatments plans and delivers school based counseling, individual, and group therapy as needed. Supports school administration, school counselors, and case managers, and other staff with crisis intervention and support as appropriate.

Qualifications: Master's Degree in mental health discipline (e.g. School Counseling, School Psychologist, Social Work, Counseling Psychology) plus two (2) years post Master's experience in the mental health field including delivering psychotherapeutic services to children and/or adolescents. LPC, LCSW, LAC or equivalent licensed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Delivers mental health screenings during times of crisis
• Assesses therapeutic programming needs of children and/or adolescents
• Makes appropriate therapeutic programming referrals
• Case manages and coordinates therapeutic treatment programming with community providers including transition back to school
• Develops treatment plans and delivers individual and group school based counseling
• Maintains clinical documentation as per New Jersey Department of Health standards and other applicable accreditation and certification entities
• Regularly completes continuing education training to enhance clinical skills
• Maintains Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) certification per New Jersey Professional Counselor Examiners Committee or equivalent licensed in their field of practice
• Maintains membership in the New Jersey Counseling Association or equivalent professional membership
• Collaborates with school administration, school counselors, case managers
• Knowledge of trauma informed care practices
• Provides staff professional development (e.g. suicide awareness) as appropriate West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District
• Facilitates parent programming (e.g. adolescent anxiety) as needed