The posting
WellPower envisions a community where every person’s mental health is fostered through strength, resilience and hope. We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.
Our Guiding Principles:
- Person Centered. We honor people’s identities, lived experience and journeys and treat every person with the dignity we all deserve.
- Exceptional Care. We offer compassionate, innovative services that meet people where they are, from immediate support to long-term recovery.
- Integrity. We operate from a deep foundation of ethical, accountable practices in all we do.
- Organizational Resilience. We meet the moment and adapt to changing contexts with collaborative creativity, agile business processes, and financial stewardship.
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Position Summary:
The Bilingual Intensive Treatment Clinician provides trauma-informed, culturally responsive, community-based mental health services to children, adolescents, and families experiencing significant behavioral health needs. This position serves youth enrolled in Homebased and STAY SAFE programs, providing stabilization-focused interventions for individuals experiencing acute mental health concerns, including suicidal ideation, recent suicide attempts, family conflict, trauma-related symptoms, and other behavioral health challenges. Services are delivered in homes, schools, clinics, and other community settings throughout the Denver Metro area.
The clinician provides individual therapy, family therapy, crisis intervention, safety planning, and care coordination while working collaboratively with families, schools, medical providers, and community partners to improve stability, functioning, and long-term outcomes.
Compensation & Benefits:
- LPC/LMFT/LCSW: $34.78/hour - $72,342.40/year
- LAC Differential - $1.00
- Language Differential - $1-$2.50/hour for bilingual proficiency in Spanish or ASL
- For complete overview of our robust Benefits: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice/
The posted range represents the full hiring range. Offers will not exceed this range, the majority of candidates are placed near the midpoint based on experience and qualifications.
Job Duties & Functions:
- Provide intensive family therapy and crisis intervention in the home and in the community.
- Research, create, and maintain connections to services and resources to minimize out of home placement and hospitalization.
- Develop short-term treatment plans; continually monitor treatment progress, and coordinate transitions to other services.
- Stabilize acute conditions, family supports, and environments to allow the child to benefit from other levels of care.
- Take responsibility for crises, including on-call duties, with own consumers and weekly rotating on-call duties for other homebased clinicians’ consumers.
- With supervision, learn and implement "best practices" among in-home family treatment models, e.g. Brief Strategic Family Therapy.
- Working with psychiatrists, nurses, and other professionals, help coordinate medication/medicinal needs of consumers with medical resources.
- Transport consumers
- Maintain accurate and timely clinical records consistent with Corporation standards.
- Participate in team meetings, in-services, and supervisory sessions as required.
- Perform 27-10 (M-1) “mental health hold” evaluations.
- Maintain a trauma informed environment of wellbeing.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- May require occasional evening or weekend hours. Local driving required.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements & Qualifications:
Education:
- Master’s Degree in psychology, social work, or other related human services degree required
- Must be licensed as an LCSW, LPC or LMFT by the State of Colorado.
Experience:
- Knowledge, experience, and skill in clinical modalities used in family therapy.
- Experience with cross-agency collaboration, treating aggression, family conflict, parental depression/mental health issues, and trauma
- Must have valid CO driver license and good driving record.
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Work Location:
Shift/Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 am- 5 pm
Physical Requirements: Ability to sit, stand, bend and reach, drive, operate standard office equipment such as phone, computer, facsimile, copier/printer, and other business machines. Occasional lift up to 40 lbs.
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Learn more about WellPower:
WellPower is committed to fair and equitable hiring with salaries based on relevant factors, such as work experience, education, and certification/licensure (rather than wage history). Toward the principle of equal pay for equal work, we post and hire within defined hiring salary ranges. We ask all applicants to carefully review the hiring salary range for each posted job opportunity, as we will not hire outside the predetermined range.
WellPower is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer, or promotion opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
For a complete overview of our robust benefits, visit: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice
