Therapist, School-Based 9 Month (West Mobile Academy)

Job description

Overview The West Mobile Academy is a classroom and day treatment program, housed at BayPointe Hospital, developed to meet the educational and therapeutic needs of severely emotionally disturbed students K-12 who are unable to maintain appropriate behaviors in a Mobile County Public School setting. A child/adolescent must manifest a combination of at least three criteria whose severity could prevent treatment in a less restrictive environment. Responsibilities: A School Year Therapist works in the Public School System to provide all administrative, clinical and mental health services for the consumers. They provide individual, group, family, and play therapy. They also provide outreach services to the consumers and family members. Essential Functions: - Provides all administrative, clinical and consultative mental health services within one or more school settings - Provides effective clinical assessment of the consumer - Utilizes assessment data to support a DSM IV- TR diagnosis - Formulates appropriate treatment plan, based on CANS, along with consumer and family/guardian, as indicated - Provides individual, group, family and play therapy mode, utilizing basic therapeutic models...