Mental Health Counselors

**Compensation Range**

$48.51 - $48.51 / hour

**You Matter**

• Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved

• Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture

• Excellent career growth opportunities

**Join us and find a career that supports:**

• Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients

• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

• Autonomy in a warm team environment

• Growth and training

**Perks and Benefits**

In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:

• DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!

• Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching

• Company paid life insurance

• Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)

• Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts

• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service.

**Why Us**

**Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.**

If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

**How you make a difference**

As a Licensed Mental Health Professional working in a correctional facility, your responsibilities include conducting intake evaluations, providing therapeutic interventions and suicide prevention techniques, and developing treatment plans for inmates. You will also be responsible for monitoring the clinical needs of inmates on your caseload, providing staff training on mental health topics, and documenting all findings in accordance with company and facility policies. Your role is critical in ensuring that inmates receive appropriate mental health services and care while incarcerated.

**Key Responsibilities**

+ Conduct screening, assessments, and triages for inmates referred by security, healthcare staff, and other community sources, and provide appropriate recommendations for their level of care.

+ Develop and recommend treatment plans, conduct essential treatment services such as psychoeducational and transitional groups, and provide suicide prevention interventions and management techniques.

+ Respond to sick call requests, provide medication adherence, and coordinate with prescribing providers for medication evaluations.

+ Provide crisis intervention, oversee the clinical needs of patients on caseload, and participate in treatment team multidisciplinary meetings and administrative meetings.

+ Provide staff training on relevant mental health topics, document all findings in the patient's health record, and ensure compliance with facility and company policies and procedures.

**Qualifications & Requirements**

Education

+ Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology or Other Related Mental Health discipline

Experience

+ One (1) or more years of experience in a Mental Health treatment program, preferably in a Correctional or Hospital setting

Licenses/Certifications

+ Unrestricted, current license in the State of practice – e.g. LCSW, LMFT, LPC, LMHC, Psychologist - Must maintain all licensures, certifications, continuing educational requirements, etc.

**Additional Details**

Must be independently licensed: LMFT, LCSW, LPC

**We are an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer**

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

**We encourage you to apply!** If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.

Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.

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**Requisition** _24-160111_

**Location** _AZ, Flagstaff_

**Facility** _AZ Coconino Flagstaff Fac_

**Type** _PRN_

**Shift** _Day 10 hour_

**Recruiter : Full Name: First Last** _Kelly Cope_

**Recruiter : Email** [email protected]_

Amity Foundation, an internationally acclaimed Teaching, and Therapeutic Community are seeking compassionate and enthusiastic individuals with a desire to teach, learn and join our community as a Substance Abuse Counselor (Demonstrator) at our residential project in Tucson. This groundbreaking opportunity not only will be working in our prison programs to help the inmate population but will also enhance your training and experience in the field.

About Amity: Amity Foundation is a safe place where people can change in an environment that fosters trust; where new values can be formed; responsibility developed and lasting relationships built. Amity is dedicated to the inclusion and habilitation of people marginalized by addiction, homelessness, trauma, criminality, incarceration, poverty, racism, sexism, and violence. Amity is committed to research, development implementation, and dissemination of information regarding community building.

Remembrance, Resolution, Reconciliation, Restoration, Renewal

About the Position:

Responsible for providing group and individual sessions and related rehabilitative treatment services to substance abuse clients in a residential setting.

What You Will Do:

+ Under supervision, participates in the provision of individual or group sessions with residents. Learns to serve as a client advocate.

+ Participates in staffing.

+ Interacts with clients' families and referral agencies.

+ Learns to evaluate emergencies and take appropriate action.

+ Learns to compile and evaluate comprehensive social, legal, and personal histories of clients.

+ Learns to maintain accurate and timely client records of a confidential nature.

+ Participates significantly with clients in the determination of short and long-term client goals and treatment plans.

+ Attends selected in-service workshops and seminars.

+ Prepares reports as assigned.

+ May appear in court with the client.

+ Participates in the maintenance and care of the physical environment along with clients.

+ Participates in community building activities, as appropriate to the position.

+ Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Bring:

+ High school diploma or equivalent GED

+ Minimal knowledge of contemporary substance abuse treatment practices in a residential setting.

+ Good understanding of human emotions.

+ Understanding of causes, symptoms, and effects of substance abuse and behavioral health problems.

+ Ability to relate to clients effectively.

+ Some knowledge of counseling and therapy practices.

+ Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.

+ Ability to maintain sensitivity and objectively under pressure generated through association with substance abuse clients.

+ Demonstrates proper attitude and techniques to residential clients.

What We Offer:

+ Medical, Dental, Vision.

+ Paid vacation, sick time, & holidays.

+ 401K, HSA, & Life insurance programs.

+ An organization committed to social justice & community action.

+ Community-oriented workplace.

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Resilient Health is excited to offer a sign-on bonus for this position! A Masters or Associate Licensed Counselor will earn a $5,000 bonus and an Independently Licensed Counselor will earn $7,000. One-half of the bonus will be given following 30 days of full-time employment and the additional half will be given after 120 days of full-time employment.

Are you doing what you love? We are!

Why? At our core, we are a resiliency-building company. Our purpose is to unleash the power of our employees and participants to create a resilient world, one person at a time.

As an innovative learning and collaborative organization, every position contributes to this purpose and our employees are the heart of who we are. We support healthy work/life balance for our employees and invest in their potential through opportunities for continual learning and growth.

If this resonates with you, then read on!

About Our Co-Occurring Counselor Position:

Our Co-Occurring Counselor, with a specialization for Substance Use and Co-Occurring Disorders, plays a vital role in building each participant's resilience, through innovative and effective evidence-based practices.

What a Co-Occurring Counselor Does at Resilient Health:

Develop and implement resilience-building curricula rooted in evidence-based modeling, to specifically address substance use/co-occurring disorders, trauma, and community integration
Cultivate individualized readiness for change approach, focused on harm-reduction and the participant's desire for abstinence
Share expertise and technique in training other staff members
Loves learning new approaches to building resilience
Passionate about using evidenced-based clinical practices to create resilience
Enjoys engaging participants using a variety of motivational approaches
Uses independent judgement based on specialized education and training to create strength-based assessments and treatment plans based on individualized assessment of each participant
Skilled in or willing to learn non-verbal therapeutic approaches
Energized by facilitating group services in-person and via telehealth
Uses concurrent/collaborative documentation as a way to increase documentation quality, promote work/life balance and engage our participants
Enjoys collaborating with other members of the clinical team to improve our participants' experience and overall resilience
Understands the value of integrating family systems and support into the treatment experience
Creative, energetic, flexible and serves as a healthy role model for participants
Detail oriented in documenting each participant's needs and progress
Uses independent judgement based on specialized education and training to plan, organize and conduct therapy groups
Provide emergency face-to-face counseling and/or crisis intervention as needed to avert or in response to participant relapse
Identify the types and amounts of support participants require to remain independent
Maintain participant records, treatment statistics and other documentation according to company standards
Participate in oversight of the health, safety and welfare of participants in the treatment programs
Provide back up to other outpatient staff as needed and/or as assigned

Requirements for This Position:

Master's Degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology or a related human service field required
Previous Substance Abuse experience required
Associate or Independent Arizona State License in Social Work, Counseling, Marriage and Family, and/or Substance Abuse preferred
Valid driver's license
Valid CPR/First Aid certifications or ability to obtain within 90 days of hire
Valid Fingerprint Clearance Card or ability to obtain within 90 days of hire
Three-year Motor Vehicle Record that meets our auto insurance carrier's coverage requirements

Where You Will Be Working: 2255 W. Northern Ave., Phx, AZ 85021

What This Position Pays: $51,770 - $70,165, depending on experience and license

Our Perks:

Exceptionally generous PTO (3.5 weeks off your first year and rising in subsequent years)
14 paid holidays
Excellent quarterly incentives
403(b) with company match
Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
Short and Long Term Disability
Life Insurance
Licensure reimbursement
Employee Assistance Program
Voluntary insurance for critical illness, accident and hospitalization
Pet insurance

If all of this sounds like something you were born to do, then we would love to hear from you!

In an effort to support our participants by setting healthy examples, all Resilient Health campuses are smoke-free for employees.

Resilient Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is dedicated to the principles of equal employment opportunity. Resilient Health will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities and for employees whose work requirements interfere with a religious belief.