Primary Therapist - Newport Healthcare

About Us:

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.®

 

Responsibilities:

The Primary Therapist conducts assessments, develops treatment plans, facilitates individual, family, and group therapies, and provides clinical support to the program as needed.

Essential Duties:

• Communicate, proactively, as the clinical point of contact with families.
• Facilitate individual, family, and group therapies within the framework of Newport Healthcare’s clinical model and Attachment-Based Family Therapy.
• Facilitate new Family Orientations, Welcome Presentations, and Family Support Groups.
• Complete risk assessment and initial safety plan upon admission and biopsychosocial assessment and treatment plan within timeline requirements.
• Coordinate treatment goals and services in collaboration with client's treatment team, with 30-day treatment plan reviews and updates.
• Complete documentation (assessments, treatment plans, progress, group notes, contact notes and discharge summaries) timely and according to established standards.
• Conduct risk or crisis assessments and provides intervention/management as needed.
• Attend weekly treatment team meetings, staff meetings, and clinical supervision.
• Enter and save data accurately within Word, Outlook (email and calendaring), EMR, and online learning.
• Attend meetings, trainings, and conferences representing Newport Healthcare as needed.

Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in counseling, psychology, social work, or related field or enrollment in Doctorate program from an accredited or state approved graduate school required.
• Licensed or ability to transfer license in Marriage Family Therapy, Counseling, Social Work, or Clinical Psychologist in the state in which services are provided
• Experience with individual, family, and/or group therapy with young adults/adolescents
• Experience with mental health, substance abuse, eating disorders, or trauma-informed treatment preferred.

 

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.

 

For more information on Equal Opportunity, please click here Equal Employment Opportunity Posters

Additional Details:$2k Sign on Bonus for Fully Licensed Clinicians. $1k Sign on Bonus for Associate Licensed Clinicians.