Join our team which is committed to the delivery of the highest quality healthcare service. We are seeking a full-time Child / Adolescent Day Treatment Psychotherapist / Qualified Treatment Trainee who is self-motivated, energetic, and a take-charge individual.
Position Summary:
The Child and Adolescent Day Treatment (CADT) Psychotherapist Position is a full-time position responsible for delivering comprehensive behavioral health services to children and adolescents ages 6 to 18 who require higher level of mental health care. This role provides individual, family, and group psychotherapy within a multidisciplinary treatment setting, supporting youth with complex emotional and behavioral needs. The psychotherapist or qualified treatment trainee (QTT) under appropriate supervision, plays a key role in promoting emotional wellness, developing coping skills, and fostering family engagement as part of an intensive, structure therapeutic program.
Job Responsibilities:
- Promote healthy personal and family relationships through education, exploration of relationship dynamics, and therapeutic intervention.
- Provide psychotherapeutic services to CADT participants and their families, including individual, group, and/or family therapy using evidence-based and developmentally appropriate approaches for diverse populations and tailored to school-aged youth.
- Implement trauma-informed interventions addressing anxiety, depression, behavioral concerns, trauma, and other mental health challenges.
- Participate in multidisciplinary case reviews, psychiatric consultations, and DHS 40-required supervision and consultation with team members on cases as needed.
- Document treatment notes on each active client as dictated by DHS 40.
- Apply principles of behavior modification, social skills, cognitive therapy, art therapy and other evidence-based practices to the child and adolescent day treatment setting.
- When appropriate, assist in restraint and seclusion if/when patients become physically aggressive.
- Provide each client with a custom-designed SMART treatment plan which will include measurable, realistic and appropriate treatment goals, and outline specific therapeutic interventions utilized, ongoing assessment of progress, modifications when necessary, and aftercare planning.
- Continuously review client treatment plans and record therapy sessions with progress notes in an electronic health record. Ensure notes contain accurate and relevant information and stay within legal parameters.
- Document treatment reviews on each active client as dictated by DHS 40.
- Collaborate with referents and community resources, outpatient psychotherapists, psychiatric providers for medication management, primary care providers, parents/caregivers, and school staff in treatment and continuity of care.
Qualifications:
- Education: Master's or Doctoral degree in Social Work, Counseling, Marriage & Family Therapy, or Psychology
- Licensure: Licensed or license-eligible (LCSW, LPC, or APSW, LPC-IT) in Wisconsin. Supervision for licensure may be available for eligible candidates
- Experience: Minimum of 1-2 years of post-graduate clinical experience preferred; experience working with children and adolescents in community mental health, FQHCs, or day treatment/PHP/IOP settings is highly desirable.
- Proficiency in evidence-based modalities (e.g. CBT, DBT, ACT, EMDR, MI)
- Strong cultural competency and commitment to working with underserved and marginalized populations
- American Heart Association Health Care Provider CPR certification or American Red Cross Professional rescue is required before start date. Annual recertification is required.
- Formal training in management of aggressive patients is required within sixty (60) days of the day of hire (this may be provided during the orientation process). Annual recertification is required.
- Bilingual (Spanish/English) required.
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Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers
May 16, 2025