Mental Health Therapist I- Skyline

About the role

WellPower envisions a community where every person's mental health is fostered through strength, resilience and hope. We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

Our Guiding Principles

• Person Centered. We honor people's identities, lived experience and journeys and treat every person with the dignity we all deserve.
• Exceptional Care. We offer compassionate, innovative services that meet people where they are, from immediate support to long-term recovery.
• Integrity. We operate from a deep foundation of ethical, accountable practices in all we do.
• Organizational Resilience. We meet the moment and adapt to changing contexts with collaborative creativity, agile business processes, and financial stewardship.

Position Summary

The Mental Health Therapist I provides milieu-based, direct care and intervention for Skyline Academy, an intensive facility school/day treatment program at WellPower, serving students ages 6 to 14-years old in grades 1st through 8th. Skyline Academy provides year-round services, with specialty social-emotional programming during the Summer.

The approach of the team is characterized by being strengths-based, family-centered, culturally proficient and community responsive. Skyline Academy students require individualized educational plans within an adaptive and trauma-informed environment due to their specific learning and social-emotional needs.

This position provides trauma informed care, ensures a safe environment, and provides intensive supervision of students to ensure successful achievement of educational, social and behavioral goals. This position provides crisis interventions as needed.

Compensation & Benefits

• Mental Health Therapist I (Bachelor's Level) - $30.12/hour - $62,650/year
• Day Treatment Differential - $1.00
• Language Differential - $1-$2.50/hour for bilingual proficiency in Spanish or ASL
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The posted range represents the full hiring range. Offers will not exceed this range, the majority of candidates are placed near the midpoint based on experience and qualifications.

Job Duties & Functions

• Actively supervise and interact with students in the classroom, milieu, and community settings.
• Provide a supportive and structured environment for students to promote growth and ensure safety.
• Provide direct behavior modification interventions and instruction to students on social, emotional, and daily living skills in alignment with clinical treatment goals.
• Provide academic assistance, guide lessons or co-teach students as needed with direction and guidance from Special Education Teacher.
• Help lead and actively participate in school and therapeutic programming.
• Provide crisis intervention, employ approved crisis prevention and intervention methodologies, and implement effective de-escalation techniques to maintain a safe and supportive learning environment.
• Complete required clinical documentation per program standards including, but not limited to daily progress notes, attendance, incident reports, physical management documentation, and "info only" notes.
• Communicate with parents/guardians as needed to ensure engagement and collaboration to reach student goals.
• Implement therapeutic interventions developed by the treatment team in collaboration with Skyline teachers, therapists, service coordinators, and psychiatric providers.
• Plan and facilitate student activities including field trips, recreational activities, and groups.
• Transport students as needed to field trips and community activities.
• Administer medications and complete required documentation.
• Model and teach conflict resolution to students.
• O ther duties as assigned

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in psychology, social work, or other related human services degree.
• Experience working with children or adolescents with specific learning or behavioral needs required.
• Experience providing direct care in an acute milieu, affective needs classroom, center-based program or similar is strongly preferred.
• Experience with crisis intervention and physical restraints strongly preferred.

Work Location

• 3401 Eudora St, Denver, CO 80207

Shift/Hours

• 8am - 4:30pm, Mon - Fri, in-person

Physical Requirements

• Walking (daily)
• Standing
• Playing with children in the gym or outdoors during recess/P.E. (1-2x/week)
• Performing physical restraints (requires bearing student's weight, sitting or kneeling on the ground, and laying on the ground) (frequency varies greatly)

Pay and benefits

WellPower is committed to fair and equitable hiring with salaries based on relevant factors, such as work experience, education, and certification/licensure (rather than wage history). Toward the principle of equal pay for equal work, we post and hire within defined hiring salary ranges. We ask all applicants to carefully review the hiring salary range for each posted job opportunity, as we will not hire outside the predetermined range.