Job description

Mental Health Counselor - Residential
Are you a Registered Mental Health Counseling or Clinical Social Work Intern passionate about working with at-risk youth?
Do you view yourself as an agent of change committed to helping people transform their life outcomes, not just a practitioner providing services?
Are you searching for a role that prioritizes quality care with a low caseload rather than maximizing billable hours?
Are you seeking a professional setting that is outdoors, dynamic, and includes international travel?

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Position Summary
The Residential Counselor serves 12 youth living in SailFuture’s two residential foster care homes.
You’ll provide our kiddos with individual and family therapy, group counseling, and Sunday adventure therapy sessions.
You will also provide overall support to the houses through twice weekly family dinners and other activities.
Finally, you will lead the mental health curriculum during international sailing expeditions, flying in and out ports while students sail from Florida to Nova Scotia and Florida to Trinidad and Tobago.
This is a salaried position with a 45-hour work week and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Traditional Responsibilities:

• Coordinate all therapeutic services for all youth in residential care and independent living program
• Work in partnership with psychiatrist to monitor and coordinate medication management for all youth in residential care
• Provide therapeutic house support up to twenty hours per week
• Provide 1:1 therapeutic services to up to 20 youth per week (1-hour session)
• 6 youth in Waterfront House
• 6 youth in White House
• Up to 4 youth in Independent Living Program
• Develop treatment plans in partnership with Residential Change Agents, Program Director, Case Manager, and other stakeholders
• Provide in-depth assessments to all youth who enter the SailFuture home
• Provide assessments to all youth at-risk who present self-harming or homicidal behaviors
• Create initial and master treatment plans and lead 30-day treatment team meetings and 6-month treatment plan reviews
• Provide training and youth-specific feedback to staff across all teams

- Coordinate and process medicaid billing for BHOS (Codes: H2020-HA, H0031-HO, H0032, H0032 - TS)

Non-Traditional Responsibilities:

• Live in Group Home for the first 3 weeks of employment as part of training to learn the culture and systems of the SailFuture residential model
• Participate in week-long domestic and international sailing expeditions up to 8 times per year (living on the boat and working alongside youth during these experiences)
• Be a fully integrated team player across all areas of the SailFuture continuum (sailing, school, job training, residential, and mental health)

Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree, or higher, from an Accredited College or University in related field
• Active Florida Licensure as a Clinical Social Worker, Mental Health Counselor, or Registered Intern
• Team player committed to doing whatever it takes for youth in their care
• Experience working with at-risk youth, specifically teenagers
• Excellent communicator and problem solver
• Passion for adventure
• Sailing experience a plus, but not required

Compensation and Benefits

• $44,000+ annual salary depending on experience
• $250 monthly health insurance contribution
• 401k with up to 6% employer match
• 10 days PTO per year (accrual based)
• Work cell phone
• Work laptop

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $44,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• After school

Application Question(s):

• Do you hold an active LMHC / LCSW License with the Florida Department of Health?
• Do you have a Florida Medicaid Provider ID?
• Research SailFuture. Why do you want to be part of this team?
• What experience do you have workin with high risk teens and/or children in foster care?
• Our approach to health is non-traditional and experience-based. Please share your personal and professional philosophy as it relates to therapeutic support for teenagers.
• The mental health counselor joins youth for week long (7-day) sailing expeditions 6 times throughout the year. Are you comfortable with this travel requirement?

Work Location: In person

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