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Benefits include :

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Generous Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401K and match start immediately, and includes a generous match
• Company Paid Life Insurance and Disability and more!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer!

Parkside provides professional purpose, hope, and healing. As a member of our staff, you will be part of a mission-driven team, dedicated to changing lives and changing communities, one patient at a time.

Parkside Psychiatric Hospital & Outpatient Clinic is a comprehensive mental healthcare system providing acute inpatient care, residential treatment, and outpatient therapy. With a focus on society’s most vulnerable population, Parkside provides world-class mental health services for youth and adults. For over 65 years, Parkside’s physicians, therapists, and staff have provided state of the art, patient-centered care that propels families from hopeful to hope-filled. As a center of excellence, we cultivate talent and provide professional purpose. Together we facilitate healing, one patient at a time.

We are looking for a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor to provide substance abuse and mental health services to our inpatient teens! This position requires either dual licensure (for instance LPC and LADC), or the LADC / MH credential as the population served will be youth with dual diagnoses. Consideration may be given to licensure candidates.

The ideal candidate will have strong assessment skills, organization and time management skills, treatment planning skills, therapeutic intervention skills, and will have the ability to work cooperatively with a treatment team. This therapist will be responsible for providing high quality patient care via the following job duties :

• Conducts individual, family, and group therapy utilizing evidenced based practices targeted toward teens ages 13–17.
• Displays good theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and effective treatment techniques for each type of therapy.
• Completes psychosocial assessments and other assessments of assigned patients in a timely fashion.
• Displays good interviewing, diagnostic, and reporting skills.
• Functions as a patient and family advocate at all times.
• Documents observations in the patients’ charts, reflecting implementation of the treatment plan, in a timely manner.
• Functions as an integral part of the treatment team.
• Participates in the development of substance abuse / mental health programming for the inpatient units.