Mental Health Clinician 2 (PCN 064959)

This position is open to All Applicants.

The Division of Juvenile Justice is recruiting to fill a Mental Health Clinician 2 position located in Anchorage at the McLaughlin Youth Center.

What You Will Be Doing

Influence inspire and transform the lives of detained youth and their families through therapeutic programs that incorporate the restorative justice trauma informed and culturally aware approaches to community protection youth accountability and competency development. Under general supervision this position:

• Provides a broad range of mental health counseling services to detained youth in a secure residential setting long term treatment and probation;
• Provides skilled and intensive psychotherapeutic casework for justice involved youth and families;
• Is responsible for ongoing clinical support guidance training and collaboration with multidisciplinary staff at the McLaughlin Youth Center and in the south central region to facilitate effective clinical interventions and treatment approaches for youth experiencing behavioral/mental health issues.

Our Organization Mission and Culture
Through Restorative Justice we hold juvenile offenders accountable for their behavior; promote the safety and restoration of victims and communities; and assist offenders and their families in developing the skills to prevent crime.

Our Core Values Include:

• Prioritizing Safety of our youth staff families and communities
• Responsiveness providing timely response to youth families victims staff and justice partners.
• Professional Relationships recognizing that successful treatment services provided to our clients coworkers victims and others rely on positive respectful and collaborative relationships and a spirit of inclusiveness.
• Dedication doing the right things for the right reasons and modeling relentless integrity and leadership.

The Benefits of Joining Our Team

Join an amazing team of staff who are leading the nation in the field of justice involved youth. We provide cutting edge evidencebased behavioral health programs and mental health services in our efforts to make meaningful change in youths lives. Take advantage of a unique opportunity to learn and grow professionally while serving Alaskas youth and staff are tirelessly dedicated to providing high quality services despite obstacles and we believe in enhancing the strengths of our staff by promoting training and professional development.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

You will work fulltime in the McLaughlin Youth Center (MYC) located at 2600 Providence Drive in Anchorage. Shift work is required which may entail working 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm at least two (2) nights per week and working one day on a weekend. This position may be required to travel throughout the region.

Who We Are Looking For
In addition to the Minimum Qualifications below we are looking for a candidate with the following competencies:

• Conscientiousness: Displays a high level of effort and commitment towards performing work; demonstrates responsible behavior.
• Decisiveness: Makes wellinformed effective and timely decisions even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; perceives the impact and implications of decisions.
• Organizational Awareness: Knows the organizations mission and functions and how its social political and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs policies procedures rules and regulations of the organization.
• Oral Communication: Expresses information (for example ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example technical sensitive controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others attends to nonverbal cues and responds appropriately.
• Accountability: Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions and demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical efficient and costeffective manner.

To view the general description and example of duties for the Mental Health Clinician 2 please go to the following link: Qualifications

Masters degree from an accredited college in counseling psychology social work child guidance vocational rehabilitation or a closely related field.

AND

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with the knowledge skills and abilities in

• Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing collecting analyzing maintaining and disseminating data and information.
• Decision Making: Makes sound wellinformed and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action even in uncertain situations to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding friendliness courtesy tact empathy concern and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult hostile or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity race gender disabilities and other individual differences.
• Psychology: Knowledge of the concepts principles and theories of human behavior and performance in various contexts mental processes or the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
• Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental ailments and career guidance.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Professional experience performing psychotherapeutic casework.

Professional experience means work that is creative analytical evaluative and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the professions principles concepts theories and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to ones own judgment.

Training and education in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom online selfstudy and onthejob) from accredited and unaccredited sources and longduration (such as a postsecondary degree) and shortduration (such as a seminar) programs.

Typically gained by means the prevalent usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

Special Note:

Some positions require the incumbent be licensed as a Clinical Social Worker or a Licensed Professional Counselor. This requirement will be addressed in the job posting.

At time of interview applicant must submit:

• Copy of transcripts (unofficial are okay please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts).
• Three (3) names & phone numbers of professional references.
• Two (2) performance evaluations from previous employers if available.

Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission.

MULTIPLE VACANCIES
This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.

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Name: Sherri Scott
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