Job Description

The Cedars-Sinai Share & Care program provides services to at-risk children and adolescents, beginning in 1981 as the Psychological Trauma Center. Our professional counselors deliver services to students who are experiencing emotional and academic challenges due to traumatic situations and stressors. Share & Care provides a group structure to facilitate emotional nurturing, healthy self-esteem, and positive coping skills through a 12-week art therapy curriculum that can result in academic success.

Under supervision of a licensed clinician, the part time Mental Health Associate at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California provides mental health prevention, intervention and crisis intervention services within school settings and the community at large following a period of observation and training. Incumbents develop partnerships and provide a full range of services consisting of assessment, group therapy, individual and family therapy when appropriate. Participates in team meetings and planning. She/he demonstrates motivation, creativity and serves as a catalyst for effect change. She/he maintains competency/skills including the ability to provide care to special populations with diverse cultural backgrounds. She/he can identify safety concerns and institute measures to provide safe environment.

• Conducts assessments of students, as a part of the triage process and for students admitted into the program.
• Participates in the treatment planning process by attending treatment team meetings.
• Demonstrates sound conceptualization of problems, strengths, goals and objectives; evidences follow through on implementation of approved plans, monitors students progress
• Conducts individual, family and group interventions
• Collaborates with internal and external sources in providing clinical treatment
• Coordinates care for patient and care delivery team as needed

Qualifications

Education:

• Master's Degree in Social Worker, Marriage Family Therapy

License/Certifications:

• In process or currently have a Board Behavioral Science Associate Designation

Experience:

• A minimum of 1 year clinical experience with children and adults
• Bilingual Spanish/English a plus.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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