Intensive Home-Based Treatment Therapist

Full time position with benefits

Delivers intensive home-based therapy to individuals and families in their homes and community settings. As an IHBT therapist, you will have a shared caseload of 8-12 clients and work in collaboration with a qualified IHBT Care Coordinator to provide treatment to clients facing complex mental health challenges, delivering evidence-based interventions and support within their home environment. Your role will involve conducting assessments, developing treatment plans, implementing therapeutic strategies and coordinating with the client’s treatment team to promote healing and stability within the family system.

Primary Responsibilities:

Direct Client Service:

• Conduct thorough assessments of clients and their families to identify strengths, needs, and challenges.
• Gathers information on family dynamics, living situations, and support systems to inform treatment planning.
• Provide intensive therapeutic interventions to clients and their families within the comfort of their homes and community.
• Implement evidence-based treatment modalities, such as family therapy, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and trauma-informed care.
• Provide immediate telephonic and in person crisis intervention by participating in the IHBT team on-call rotation. Provide direct support to clients and families during times of acute distress or psychiatric emergencies.
• Collaborate with emergency response teams, including crisis hotlines, mobile crisis units, and psychiatric emergency services, to ensure timely and appropriate interventions.

Administration:

• Completes all required documentation including but not limited to service tickets, progress notes, service plans, discharge summaries, and other reports as required and within department guidelines.

Internal and External Collaboration:

• Works collaboratively with other professionals involved in the client's care, including case managers, psychiatrists, and community resources.
• Consults and collaborates with internal and external resources on behalf of the client and family.
• Attends agency and departmental meetings.

Quality Assurance and Effectiveness:

• Delivers interventions based on evidence-based practice models.
• Ensure service delivery is within the agency and IHBT fidelity requirements.
• Has awareness and knowledge of IHBT fidelity standards and ensures adherence to these requirements including but not limited to:
  1. treatment intensity, service delivery: location and scheduling flexibility, crisis response and availability, safety planning, comprehensive and integrated trauma informed care practices, systems of care, caseload parameters, treatment duration and continuing care planning, supervision, professional training and development and quality improvement.
• Attends agency and IHBT training or professional seminars/conferences as required or necessary to maintain compliance with professional licensure and IHBT fidelity expectations.

Fiscal Responsibility:

• Ensures documentation and service delivery is following departmental fiscal expectations.

Other Duties as assigned

Minimum Education, Experience or Other Skills Requirements:

• This position requires a master’s degree in counseling, social work, or a related field from an accredited college or university. Ohio licensure or certification as a mental health therapist (LPC, LSW, LMFT) is required, LISW, LPCC or IMFT is strongly preferred.
• A minimum of one year of clinical experience working with children, adolescents and families involved in the child welfare or juvenile justice system.
• Experience working with individuals and families in a mental health or related setting, preferably in a home-based or community-based context.
• Knowledge of evidence-based therapeutic modalities and interventions for addressing complex mental health needs.
• Strong assessment and clinical skills, with the ability to develop and implement effective treatment plans.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage clients and families from diverse backgrounds.
• Flexibility and adaptability to work within the dynamic environment of clients' homes and communities.
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation.

Work Environment: The IHBT therapist will primarily work in clients' homes and community settings, providing services where clients feel most comfortable. The role will involve traveling to various locations within the designated service area. The therapist will collaborate closely with clients, families, and interdisciplinary teams to ensure comprehensive and integrated care. Flexible scheduling may be required to accommodate clients' needs, including evening and weekend hours.

Physical Demands: The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, and lift to 50 pounds. Ability to operate a motor vehicle safely in changing weather conditions required.

Our Culture:
Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is Greater Cincinnati’s most prolific non-profit specializing in education, behavioral and therapeutic health services and autism services for vulnerable, at-risk youth, their families, and caregivers. Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is proud to embrace our ideals of an equal opportunity workplace by actions as well as our words. We lead our community with respect and tolerance, internally and externally, and we expect our employees to embrace this ideal and express it in their day-to-day interactions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against, based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.