Contractual Youth Bilingual Therapist (Spanish)
Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Posted on Dec 3, 2025
Job Details
Company HQ - Ann Arbor, MI
Contractor
Graduate Degree
Nonprofit - Social Services
Description
Overview of Position
To provide clinical assessment and mental health therapy to a diverse set of youth clients. Counseling is offered via Telehealth and in office appointments. Thrive therapists use a variety of evidence-based modalities and approaches. Thrive Counseling at JFS offers a rich learning environment for therapists and this position is a great opportunity for limited license MSW (LLMSW) applicants working toward licensure. Weekly clinical supervision will be provided as well as Clinical Peer Supervision and other relevant trainings. In this contractual position, a therapist will conduct initial assessments as well as provide ongoing counseling services (weekly, biweekly, or monthly psychotherapy). The therapist will establish treatment goals with clients, a service plan, and document the counseling activities in our electronic health record.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Maintains a caseload of clinical clients
• Assesses client functioning to determine service needs; provides ongoing monitoring and reassessment of needs, makes referrals to other service providers (healthcare, housing, financial, etc.).
• Develops and continually updates treatment plan (Individual Service Plan) by involving client and family in establishing goals and objectives.
• Communicates with other service providers and family members to coordinate services and enhance client functioning.
• Provides therapeutic interventions to the client, and family as required.
• Maintains client documentation standards by preparing and completing, in a timely manner, all required progress notes, records and reports for all assigned clients, in an electronic database and in paper files.
• Complies with standards and requirements of all external accrediting/licensing bodies by attending staff meetings and committee meetings as assigned.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending agency in-service programs, educational workshops, reviewing professional publications and establishing personal networks.
• Demonstrates awareness of the importance of statistical accountability and fiscal integrity by completing billable and non-billable forms and assuring collection of fees.
• Maintains client confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Must have a master's degree in social work and an active licensed in the state of Michigan. LLMSW or LMSW may apply. No other applicants will be considered at this time.
2. Experience working with youth and families.
3. Excellent written and oral communication skills.
4. Extensive computer experience.
Required Language Skills
1. Bilingual ability in Spanish is required.
2. Ability to express oneself articulately and effectively both verbally and in written communication.
3. Comfort communicating with individuals for whom English is their second language.
Required Reasoning Ability
1. Ability to deal with abstract as well as concrete problematic people and situations.
2. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.