Youth Therapist

**Description**

**You deserve to work somewhere that gives back to you!**

Devereux is proud to offer **ASCEND - the** **first career accelerator program** exclusively designed to give behavioral healthcare workers - the career guidance, one-on-one coaching, skills and financial assistance you need to reach your full potential. This program includes 100% of tuition covered (up to fifteen thousand dollars annually for undergraduate and twenty-five thousand dollars annually for graduate) and student loan repayment, among other benefits!

**What Devereux offers YOU:**

+ A culture that values your ideas and empowers you to drive positive change.

+ Clinically focused organization providing supervision and opportunities to collaborate with a team of clinical professionals, fostering an empowering atmosphere.

+ Opportunity to engage with an organization that values DEIB and embraces Servant Leadership principles, allowing staff to be their authentic selves at work.

+ Paid annual stipend for CEUs toward maintaining licensure

+ Ability to create a flexible schedule for providing therapy to youth.

+ Work from home when not providing therapy to youth in their treatment home.

+ Clinical supervision from a seasoned LCSW.

+ Free clinical supervision towards clinical hours required for clinical license.

+ Time off benefits start on day one!

+ Excellent health benefits, effective 30 days after employment.

**The Youth Therapist directly to our Lead Youth Therapist. The therapist provides services in-home to our youth in their treatment homes in Southern New Jersey.**

**Salary:** $63,000

**What Devereux Looks for in YOU:**

+ Provide individual and family therapy to youth in your assigned homes.

+ Conduct assessments with our youth to create a comprehensive treatment plan.

+ Lead Child and Family team meeting monthly for youth.

+ Collaboration with interdisciplinary team internally and externally, including parents/legal guardians, CMO and DCPP staff, treatment home parents, social service coordinators, psychiatric APN, psychologist, and recreational specialist.

+ On call responsibilities are included in the position, which include, but not limited to phone consultation to assigned treatment homes. Alternating weekend on call with other behavioral health staff (averaging about 6 times a year).

**Qualifications**

**You'd make a great Youth Therapist if you have:**

+ Master's Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, or other related clinical discipline.

+ Valid LSW, LAC, LCSW, or LPC.

+ Two years of working with children and/or youth

+ Experience providing in-community treatment preferred.

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

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**Posted Date** _6 hours ago_ _(9/20/2024 10:39 AM)_

**_Requisition ID_** _2024-39786_

**_Category_** _Clinical_

**_Position Type_** _Full-Time_

The employment policies of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health are to recruit and hire qualified employees without discrimination because of race, religion, creed, color, age, sex, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, communication ability, gender identity or expression or sexual orientation and to treat them equally with respect to compensation and opportunities for advancement - including upgrading, promotion and transfer - consistent with individual skills and the needs of Devereux.