You Can Transform and Empower Lives!
Mental health plays a vital role in an individual's overall well-being. This is especially true for the youth served by our Residential Treatment Programs. Therapy provides them with a safe space to process their past traumas, develop coping mechanisms, and acquire essential life skills necessary for their emotional and psychological well-being. Through therapeutic interventions, they can heal, build resilience, and work towards a brighter future.
As a Residential Treatment Therapist, you will help transform the lives of these youth by providing therapeutic support that helps them navigate their mental health challenges and discover their inner strength. Your expertise and empathy will provide them with the guidance and tools they need to overcome obstacles, foster resilience, and unlock their full potential.
If you are passionate about working with youth and possess the necessary skills and compassion, we invite you to come transform lives!
Key Responsibilities:
Requirements: Must have a Master’s Degree in a Human Services field, be at least 21 years old, and eligible to become IM+CANS certified. Master’s Degree in Social Work, IM+CANS certification, and previous experience preferred.
Skills: Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to understand complex problems and to collaborate and explore alternative solutions, ability to multi-task, organized, detail oriented, basic computer skills, excellent communication skills both written and verbal
Miscellaneous: Must pass pre-employment drug screens and background clearances. Must maintain driving clearances.
Program Population: The youth in these programs have a complexity of mental health issues/disorders. The intensity of these mental health issues warrants placement in a highly structured, supervised and safe therapeutic environment. The focus of the program is to provide crisis stabilization/management, behavioral management, and clinical treatment in effort to reduce the mental health disturbance and assist the youth in returning to a less restrictive setting. Due to the severity of youth’s mental health issues in their program the use of physical restraints and/or seclusion are necessary at time.
Spero Family Services offers hope, help, and healing by providing Christ-centered human services to meet the ever-changing needs of individuals, families, and communities.
Our main campus is located in Mt. Vernon, IL and we operate several programs/offices there. However, we also have locations in Olney, Springfield, and West Frankfort. Spero Family Services provides more than 10 social service programs aimed to support some of the most vulnerable children and families in our region. These include residential and group home services, counseling, foster care, child and family services, and many others.