Bilingual Therapist Assistant - full-time - 1st shift - Mon-Fri
Bilingual Therapist Assistant - full-time - 1st shift - Mon-Fri
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23-05-2025
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Why CMHA
Community Mental Health Affiliates Inc. (CMHA) is a private nonprofit treatment provider headquartered in New Britain with seven locations throughout the city and in Waterbury. We partner with clients and the community to promote recovery from mental illness and substance use treating more than 7500 adults and children each year. CMHA is Connecticuts first fully Joint Commission accredited Behavioral Health Home and is a SAMHSA Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC). Visit to learn more.
Community Mental Health Affiliates Inc. (CMHA) is a private nonprofit treatment provider headquartered in New Britain with seven locations throughout the city and in Waterbury. We partner with clients and the community to promote recovery from mental illness and substance use treating more than 7500 adults and children each year. CMHA is Connecticuts first fully Joint Commission accredited Behavioral Health Home and is a SAMHSA Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC). Visit to learn more.
Internal mobility and career pathing is a focus at CMHA with many employees growing from individual contributors to leaders.
CMHA is looking to hire a Therapist Assistant for our MulitDimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) department. This position will be located at 233 Main St. New Britain CT 06051. MondayFriday 9:00am5:00pm.
Compensation Range:The salary range for this position starts at $20.00 per hour
Compensation for each position is determined not only by years of relevant experience education and skills but also by maintaining internal pay equity. CMHA also takes into consideration our benefits and paid time off package to provide a wellrounded and competitive approach to the applicants overall compensation.
Position Summary: The Therapist Assistant/Recovery Specialist serves as a key member of the MultiDimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) treatment team which will provide treatment for youth/young adults and parents with substance abuse and cooccurring disorders both in home in office and community settings.
- Establish a trusting supportive relationship with family members through direct contact in the context of home visits phone contacts and assistance in times of crisis.
- Work as part of the treatment team with the assigned clinician providing assistance to both youth families and treatment team members.
- Maintains appropriate caseload as determined by agency and funder. Provides crisis intervention to family in the home office or community if need arises. This includes oncall 24/7 coverage of families on caseload.
- Adhering to documentation requirements and data collection/entry related to MDFT.
- fidelity monitoring and project evaluation efforts.
- Engages clients in treatment plan interventions particularly around clinical involvement drug testing and activities that will help to support the MDFT model of treatment.
- Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with other community agencies and organizations in order to provide comprehensive and effective treatment services for clients (i.e. schools courts hospitals after school programs DCF probation detox/ residential substance abuse treatment facilities etc.).
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Bachelors in social work/human service.
- Ability to provide own transportation.
- Bilingual/Bicultural (English/Spanish/Latino/a) and knowledge of cultural values traditions and practices of people from Puerto Rico.
- Valid DMV License.
- Minimum of 1 year of experience working with adolescents with substance abuse/behavioral health problems.
- Beginner to intermediate experience with Microsoft Office products including Word and Outlook.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system
We care about our employees by offering benefits that strike a harmonious worklife balance. We also care about your future. CMHa offers:
- Medical Dental and Vision Insurance packages.
- 403(b)retirement savings plan with CMHa matching starting after 1 year of service.
- 11 observed holidays
- 3 Wellbeing days off on a Friday throughout the year to extend a long weekend.
- 2 CHMA/Personal days to use throughout the calendar year.
- Up to 24 days of PTO that increases with years of service
- Paid agency closure between Christmas and New Years (except 24/7 programs)*must be approved annually
- Company paid Life Insurance and Long Term Disability
- A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that offers counseling coaching and wellness resources for staff as well as members of their household
- Higher education tuition discounts at participating schools through the Alliances academic partnerships
- Free ongoing professional development opportunities and continuous access to Continuing Education Units (CEUs) featuring comprehensive training in EvidenceBased Practices such as EMDR DBT and CBT.
- Employee discounts for shopping the New Britain YMCA travel and entertainment
- Free employee subscriptions to the calm app
- Annual Company Picnic
- CMHAsponsored Loan Reimbursement Program and Scholarship Program
- Free Student Loan Wellnessfor eligible employees and their family members access to:
- Student loan consolidation and refinancing
- Loan payoff projection dashboard
- Coaching and support via chat email and phone
- College cost calculator
- College financial planning
- 3 NHSCapproved sites for federal student loan repayment
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Enhancementfor eligible employees access to:
- Automated Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) form management for past and present employers
- Automated reminders for annual (PSLF) recertifications to help you stay on track
- Resources and ongoing communications that make PSLF understandable
- The opportunity to receive the national average of $72000.00 in forgiveness
Community Mental Health Affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer except in the case of a bon fide occupation qualification or as otherwise permitted or required by law does not discriminate of the basis of race color age disability sec childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical condition including by not limited to lactation sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran or military status religion national origin ancestry marital or familiar status genetic information status with regard to public assistance citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.
Any individual needing assistance in completing an online application should contact CMHAs Human Resources Department at.
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