Group Therapist

AI overview

Provide targeted therapy services in multiple schools, engaging with students and collaborating with school staff to enhance emotional well-being and academic performance.

Compensation: $32/hr to $36/hr
Part-Time: 20 hrs/wk

Specific Responsibilities:

  • Run 3 - 4 groups per day at 2-3 different elementary schools in Berkeley
  • Provide individual therapy services to 1-2 students per day
  • Accumulate an average of 5-6 billable hours per day
  • Create curriculum for groups on different topics, such as emotions regulation, depression, autism, trauma, etc.
  • Must graduate clients within 1 school year of service delivery and support with clinical goals of 75% reduction in client symptom reduction upon baseline data gathered.
  • Administer client outcome measurement indicators (I.e., GAD 7 - PHQ9)  as guided by the Quality Assurance Team 
  • Must adhere to timeliness submission of notes as informed by Program Director and Quality Assurance Management Team
  • Engage in mandatory monthly All Staff Meetings
  • Meet monthly with Clinical Director, Program Director and/or clinical supervisors to explore schools individual needs of specific group topics
  • Participates in monthly coaching and training opportunities as delivered and requested by Program Director and Quality Assurance team
  • Work with school staff, teachers, administrators and parents to coordinate services.  
  • Complete all paperwork documentation in a timely manner including Medi-Cal documentation where relevant. Participate in monthly CQRT meetings
  • Provide services to clients in an ethical, legal and professional manner, including HIPAA, CAMFT and NASW standards.
  • Be familiar with and adhere to all agency policies and regulations.
  • Competency in cultural issues related to race, ethnicity, nationality, class, religion, and sexual orientation required.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Licensure on LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, PsyD.
  • Experience working in schools within a multicultural, diverse, urban community.  
  • Understanding of trauma-informed practices required.
  • Experience and commitment to collaborating with parents, teachers and school staff.  
  • Experience with Medi-cal paperwork a plus.
  • Spanish language highly desirable.
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills.
  • Ability to maintain goals and priorities in dealing with varying challenges
  • Ability to be flexible in working with people and organizations with different viewpoints

For more than four decades, Bay Area Community Resources (BACR) has been delivering a wide range of services to schools and other community settings throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Services are clustered in program areas that include expanded learning, behavioral and mental health, fiscal sponsorship, healthy communities, national service, and youth workforce and re-entry. Each year, BACR provides strengths-based, trauma-informed direct services to tens of thousands of people. We continually witness the strength and resilience of the individuals and families we serve who are often those most adversely impacted by systemic racism, poverty, and inequitable access to resources and opportunities. During this time, the organization has remained steadfast to our mission: promoting the healthy development of individuals, families, and communities. We are grateful for the opportunity to support communities throughout the Bay Area, promoting resilience, health and justice and to our dedicated staff who serve those communities with compassion, passion, creativity and talent.

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$32 – $36 per hour
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