Therapist IOP

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As leaders in children’s mental health and wellness, St. Louis Children’s and KVC Health Systems Youth Mental Health Care have partnered to create one of the nation’s most innovative and transformative youth mental health and wellness campuses. The partnership includes a 77-bed acute care hospital and outpatient programs. Located on the KVC Missouri Children’s Mental Wellness Campus conveniently located in Webster Groves, Missouri, the peaceful environment and broad continuum of care allow children and families to access the appropriate level of treatment throughout their healing experience. The new campus is slated to open in late 2026. Learn more at stlouischildrenskvc.org. Join us and be a part of this journey of healing and hope for thousands of children and teens. 

Job Summary

This position is responsible for providing therapy to clients (may include individual, group, and/or family) and crisis intervention services. Completes assessments, documentation for services rendered, and case managed duties as needed.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Provide clinical counseling services to clients with a focus on those affected by trauma. Will provide group therapy and may provide individual and family therapy 
• Provide crisis intervention as needed
• Complete various assessments and reports asappropriate such aspreadmission, admission, trauma, suicide, and substance abuse
• Formulate and administer treatment plans 
• Participate in meetings, staffing, and other appointments with clients as needed 
• Communicate and collaborate with internal and external individuals and groups to provide excellent care, customerserviceand cooperation 
• Assure proper authorizations are in place prior to provision of services 
• Prepare insurance reviews for insurance companies 
• Assistin SCM restraints as needed
• Other duties as assigned according to qualification of staff and development ofprograms

Education: Master’s degree in social work or counseling 

Licensure/Certification:  

• Licensed Master’s Social Work orLicensed Clinical Social Worker 
• Licensed Professional Counselor
• Valid Driver’s license and auto insurance with good record

Qualifications: 

• Knowledge of clinical theory, therapy, and systems.
• Strong customer service focus
• Excellent time management
• Oral and written communicate skills 
• Requires analytical ability necessary tomanagemoderately complexadministrative details such as preparing nonrecurring reports. 
• Independent judgement isrequiredto plan, prioritize, and organize a diversified workload with attention to details
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Word and email applications
• Must be able to work productively and respectful with individuals and families from diverse cultural background 
• Class E driver’s license 

Experience: 

• Workinginresidentialsetting
• Working in a trauma informed environment 
• Knowledge of trauma and the impact on healthy development

Physical Requirements & Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk, or hear, and taste or smell. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit for intermittent amounts of time. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

Benefits & More

Employee benefits and culture fall under the KVC Health Systems umbrella. KVC is a family of private, nonprofit organizations that strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help people achieve mental health wellness. Through our broad continuum of care, we are proud to be a national leader in mental health, child welfare, and health and human services transformation.

At KVC, we offer a positive, supportive workplace where each person can do work they love. In fact, we’re so proud of our culture that we see it as our top competitive advantage in the health and human services field. Based on the voice of our employees, KVC has an incredible 83 Work Wellbeing score on Indeed, a rating so high and rare that it places KVC among the top 1% of employers nationally. KVC was also named #15 on Glassdoor’s Best-Led Companies 2025 list, a recognition achieved entirely based on anonymous employee reviews. In addition to being mission-driven, we offer employees an unparalleled level of flexibility, wellbeing, learning, inclusion, recognition, and rewards.