Mental Health Counselor, Youth Services
Full Time
Matteson, IL 60443
$42,000 - $46,000 a year
Posted
Job description
Mental Health Counselor: Youth Services
Department: Community Mental Health and Counseling
Status: Full-time
Status: Full-time
Who We Are
For over 50 years Sertoma Centre, Inc. has helped people with disabilities live, work, and fully participate in their communities. We do this by empowering individuals to achieve personal success through comprehensive services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as those living with mental illness. Based in Matteson Illinois, our accredited Community Mental Health and Counseling services assist adults and youth who experience mental illness to work toward recovery and prosperity.
Your Role
As the Mental Health Counselor in Youth Services, you will support people in developing skills to manage mental illness, socialize with others, and decrease reliance on professional supports. The Mental Health Counselor will also support people in exploring thoughts, feelings, and behaviors from the past and in the present to gain insight throughout the personal recovery process. The Mental Health Counselor will bill for all services provided.
Responsibilities
For over 50 years Sertoma Centre, Inc. has helped people with disabilities live, work, and fully participate in their communities. We do this by empowering individuals to achieve personal success through comprehensive services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as those living with mental illness. Based in Matteson Illinois, our accredited Community Mental Health and Counseling services assist adults and youth who experience mental illness to work toward recovery and prosperity.
Your Role
As the Mental Health Counselor in Youth Services, you will support people in developing skills to manage mental illness, socialize with others, and decrease reliance on professional supports. The Mental Health Counselor will also support people in exploring thoughts, feelings, and behaviors from the past and in the present to gain insight throughout the personal recovery process. The Mental Health Counselor will bill for all services provided.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate on-site psychoeducational groups that focus on developing coping skills needed for symptom management and increasing skills needed for personal growth.
- Provide person-centered individual therapy or psychoeducational services utilizing best practice approaches to treatment.
- Assist consumers in gaining access to resources needed during the recovery process.
- Meet departmental standards for productivity in service delivery.
- Schedule and status billing activities on a daily basis in the Electronic Clinical Record.
- Complete all billing notes by the end of the business day every Wednesday for the week prior.
Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Human Services related field.
- Valid Illinois driver’s license and documentation of current auto insurance, with a good driving record and car available.
- Complete at least one training within one year of hire on trauma-informed principles and/or practices.
- Employee is required to remain compliant with all state/federal, position, agency, accreditation, and funding source training/licensing requirements including but not limited to CPR and CPI.
- Employee is required to possess the skill and ability to utilize all applicable technology and computer programs related to his/her position.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off
- 11 paid holidays per year
- Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance Plans
- Employer Paid Insurance: Basic Life/AD&D and Long-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
- 403(b) with company match
- Tuition assistance
- Eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- Reimbursement for conferences and seminars
- Access to the Alsip Park District Fitness Center for $10.00 per month
Health, Safety, and Culture
Sertoma Centre, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that embraces the uniqueness of every person. Sertoma understands that in order for you to work effectively and be an advocate of inclusivity, we must foster an environment that is respectful and sensitive to persons of all gender identities and from every cultural, socioeconomic, ethnic, religious, and racial background. Our open-door, team-building concept supports both agency goals and employee success.
In an effort to further promote and protect the safety and health of our staff, consumers, and volunteers, Sertoma Centre, Inc. requires that all employees be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Where permitted by law, applicants who are offered a position will be asked about their vaccination status, which must meet minimum business requirements. Sertoma will allow exemptions to this mandate only in circumstances where a staff person can provide proof that it is medically contraindicated or it would require a violation of a religious belief, practice, or observance.
Sertoma Centre, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that embraces the uniqueness of every person. Sertoma understands that in order for you to work effectively and be an advocate of inclusivity, we must foster an environment that is respectful and sensitive to persons of all gender identities and from every cultural, socioeconomic, ethnic, religious, and racial background. Our open-door, team-building concept supports both agency goals and employee success.
In an effort to further promote and protect the safety and health of our staff, consumers, and volunteers, Sertoma Centre, Inc. requires that all employees be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Where permitted by law, applicants who are offered a position will be asked about their vaccination status, which must meet minimum business requirements. Sertoma will allow exemptions to this mandate only in circumstances where a staff person can provide proof that it is medically contraindicated or it would require a violation of a religious belief, practice, or observance.
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