Mental Health Therapist

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The University of Miami/UHealth Department of Pediatrics has an exciting opportunity for a full time Therapist to work in Miami, FL.

The Therapist will function as a Mental Health Consultant that will be providing consultation services to early learning programs, classrooms, and children using the IECMHC model.

Core responsibilities:

• Interviews, evaluates, and assesses the needs of patients, and develops treatment plans.
• Works in conjunction with multidisciplinary service teams to ensure implementation of coordinated psychosocial serves as it relates to program participants’ needs.
• Prepares progress notes, reports and correspondence.
• Maintains case records confidential.
• Conducts ongoing individual, groups, and family counseling sessions with patients.
• Completes psychosocial evaluations, assesses psychological disorders, prepares comprehensive clinical summaries, and makes treatment recommendations.
• Interprets psychological or psychiatric case information from patients interviewed and from medical or psychiatric sources.
• Assists with the recordation of data and statistics.
• Serves as program liaison to collaborating service providers, the courts, and treatment centers.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

Department Specific Functions:

Main Jump Start Job Functions:

• Enroll participants and maintain a caseload of 16 participants (e.g., 4 directors, 8 teachers, and 4
• children).
• Perform clinical assessments and collect necessary data to determine program eligibility.
• Provide weekly consultations to participants based on action plan detailing areas of need.
• Continuously link participants to community resources for any additional supports or services.
• Attend individual and group supervision as needed.
• Attend trainings for continued professional development as needed.

Additional Jump Start PLUS Job Functions:

• Lead recruitment of intervention and control sites.
• Lead collection of pre and post data of assigned programs.
• Lead the implementation of all Jump Start PLUS interventions in assigned programs.
• Lead the coordination of all additional intervention activities in assigned programs.
• Support the design and implementation of KUBI Telepresence Robots.
• Support the onboarding and training of program consultants.
• Support program leadership during program implementation as needed.

Additional HC2 Job Functions:

• Support recruiting efforts of control sites.
• Support the collection of pre and post data at each timepoint.
• Support the coordination of program activities (e.g., parent workshops) in control sites.
• Support program leadership during program implementation as needed.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Core Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required. Master’s degree in Psychology, Social Work, or any related Counseling field is strongly preferred along with being license eligible.
• Minimum 1 year of relevant experience required
• Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

Any relevant education, certifications and/or work experience may be considered.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

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