The incumbent provides a leadership role on the specified inpatient unit, residential and/or partial hospital program for the Group Therapy Program, participating in both direct clinical/group therapy services and administrative duties. They are responsible for creating/maintaining the unit's group schedule(s), monitoring documentation of clients' attendance and participation, and overseeing/supervising other group therapists/leaders facilitating groups on the unit. Additionally, they will provide group therapy training (or recommend staff to appropriate training opportunities when available) for unit staff in need of additional group leadership training.
Education:
* Master's degree or higher from an accredited clinical program required (occupational therapist, expressive therapy, counseling therapy, social work, clinical psychology, educational psychology)
* Requires appropriate licensing to clinical discipline, i.e., OTR/L, LMHC, Social Work, Psychology
Experience:
* 3-4 years clinical experience with group psychotherapy and leadership responsibilities.
* Active interest in clinical care issues related to inpatient psychiatric treatment.
* Candidates should be organized, timely, and possess good interpersonal skills to effectively communicate within a multi-disciplined team.
* Ability to set and maintain appropriate boundaries.
* Experience with empirically supported/validated group therapy skills (i.e. CBT, ACT, MI, DBT) is preferred.
* Familiarity with hospital/partial-hospital or community-based treatment programs.
* Active interest in clinical care issues related to inpatient psychiatric treatment.
* See departmental competency list if applicable.
* All employees must possess basic computer skills to use a variety of electronic or online systems for communication, clinical and administrative purposes.
* Required to complete electronic medical records training and demonstrate 80% accuracy on competency test within 30 days of hire.
It is the policy of McLean Hospital to affirmatively provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants for employment and existing employees without regard to their race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, ancestry, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or a condition related to pregnancy including, but not limited to, lactation or the need to express breast milk for a nursing child, or any other basis that would be in violation of any applicable law or regulation.