Saint Luke’s Crittenton Children’s Center in South Kansas City, MO is seeking a Residential Therapist to join our team.
This position functions as a member of the unit treatment team alongside BHTs, RNs, Individual therapists, and medical providers. Your experience and expertise will allow you to support the implementation of individualized treatment plans and provide trauma informed care for youth.
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Facilitating implementation of individual treatment plans and daily unit schedule including groups and activities
Providing coaching to residents and staff utilizing trauma informed care principles.
On occasion, may provide individual and family therapy as well as case management services
Recommends and implements general therapeutic interventions both for individual clients and for overall program development.
Must have a master's degree and applicable MO license or obtain same within 120 days of hire (LMSW, LPC, PLPC, LCSW).
Applicable Experience:
Less than 1 yearMandt Certified - Various, Provisional License - VariousMaster's DegreePart TimeDay (United States of America)
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About Saint Luke’s
Saint Luke’s serves the West Region of BJC Health System as a faith-based, nonprofit, aligned health system committed to providing the highest levels of excellence in compassionate health care and health-related services. Saint Luke’s cares for patients in 65 specialty services across 67 counties in Missouri and Kansas. Saint Luke’s Hospital has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the elite hospitals in the nation. For more than 140 years, Saint Luke’s has been dedicated to enhancing the physical, mental, and spiritual health of the diverse communities we serve.
Saint Luke’s offers:
- The region’s longest continuously operating adult heart transplant program and one of the nation’s leading cardiovascular programs at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Treatment for complex brain and spinal cord diseases and one of the nation’s leading stroke reversal programs at the nationally ranked Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute
- The region’s only treatment center dedicated exclusively to treating metastatic breast cancer—the Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer at Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute
- Saint Luke’s Convenient and Urgent Care clinics for treatment of minor illnesses and injuries
- Liver and kidney transplantation programs
- A comprehensive maternal-fetal diagnostic and treatment center
- Three Neonatal Intensive Care Units, including a Level IIIb NICU at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
- Saint Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, the only comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospital of its kind in the region
- A nationally recognized children's behavioral health center, Saint Luke’s Hospital Crittenton Children’s Center