Clinic Based Therapist ($10k sign on bonus)

Yamhill County McMinnville , OR Full-time Other

Posted on March 31, 2024

School-Based/Clinic-Based Therapist ($10k sign-on bonus)

Salary

$5,681.26 - $7,198.52 Monthly

Location - McMinnville, OR

Job Type - Regular Full-Time

Job Number - FY23-086

Department - Health and Human Services

Division - Family & Youth

Opening Date - 12/13/2023

Closing Date - 1/12/2024 5:00 PM Pacific

NEW EMPLOYEES HIRED INTO THIS POSITION ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A $10,000 HIRING BONUS.

Yamhill County has one regular full-time position for a therapist/Qualified Mental Health Professional to work on the Family & Youth team providing mental health services to children and their families in a rural school-based setting or combination school based/clinic based. Duties will include engagement, crisis support, diagnoses, direct treatment, performing integrated behavioral health assessments, service planning and implementation, individual and family therapy, case management, outreach/consultation with education personnel and collaborative service documentation.

This position may be underfilled with a Behavioral Health Clinician. Please see classification specifications below for details.

Advanced Practice Behavioral Health Clinician Salary: $5681- $7198/month (DOE)

Behavioral Health Clinician Salary: $5218 - $6669/month (DOE)

The Qualifications:
The position requires a master's degree from an accredited school in social work, clinical psychology, psychiatric nursing, or a related field and:

Behavioral Health Clinician: One year of experience as a Human Services Specialist I. Any satisfactory equivalent combination of experience and training which ensures ability to perform the work may substitute for the above. Must qualify as QMHP, to work in respective fields. May require licensing.

Advanced Practice Behavioral Health Clinician: Three (3) years’ post-master’s experience. Active professional license in the state of Oregon as a Qualified Mental Health Provider (QMHP) or be a non-licensed QMHP with dual credentialing as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC I, II, or III).

Preference will be given to those applicants with training and experience in evidence-based practices and experience providing intensive mental health and addictions services in a community-based setting, those with fluency in Spanish and English with competency to provide bilingual/bicultural clinical services, and those who meet the criteria as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC).

Will be subject to successful completion of a background check. The successful candidate must have an NPI number or the ability to obtain one upon employment. Will be subject to successful completion of a background check.

The Candidate:

The successful candidate will have excellent skills in organization, paperwork management, and communication – both verbally and in writing, in addition to typing and computer proficiency and will be dependable, organized, self-directed, detail-oriented, and possess the ability to interact with co-workers, clients, and the public in a courteous, professional manner. Other requirements include working knowledge and skill with diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment planning techniques specifically related to community mental health services and the abilities to understand the behavior of people under stress, develop cooperative relationships with clients, their families, and the community, maintain relationships with physicians, law enforcement agencies, the courts, public and private administrators, and the community in general, interpret community mental health and chemical dependency services, and prepare concise and complete client treatment and progress records.

Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of this classification with or without accommodation.

In order to qualify for most HHS positions, applicants:

Must not be excluded from participation in federal health care programs (Medicaid, Medicare, and other federally funded programs that provide health benefits); and
Must not be excluded from participation in federal procurement (Federal Acquisition Regulation) and non-procurement activities (Executive Order No. 12549).

The Benefits:
Yamhill County offers generous employee benefits effective the first year of employment:

15 paid holidays per year.
19.5 days of Flexible Earned Time (FET) accrual in the first year (based on an 8-hr day).**
PERS (Public Employee Retirement System) - 100% employer funded contributions.
Full health benefit offerings with employee premiums starting as low as $53.94/month for current plan year. **

Additional benefits for HHS employees:

This position qualifies for a $10,000 hiring bonus - $5,000 to be paid at hire and $5,000 to be paid at the successful completion of the probationary period.
$750 and 40 hours of paid time annually for professional development/training.
$200 annually toward required license and/or certification fees.
HRSA/NHSC approved site with many loan repayment opportunities available.
Qualifying employer for public service student loan forgiveness.
Most positions are eligible to accrue overtime.*

*Subject to the AFSCME Collective Bargaining Agreement (Download PDF reader) (7/1/2020 – 6/30/2023).
** Contract currently under negotiation, amounts may change after CBA ratification.