Behavioral Health Intern

Description

Seattles Union Gospel Mission is inviting a PAID Behavioral Health Interns to join our Behavioral Health Team in Seattle, WA.

Are you looking for a way to use your gift to help others? Do you have a heart to come alongside others who are trying to improve their lives? Do you want to work for a company that's made it on the Best Christian Workplace 3 years in a row? If so, we want to talk with you.

As a Behavioral Health Intern, you have the opportunity to be part of the solution to help our homeless neighbors living on the streets within King County. In this role, you'll be responsible for providing individual therapy and group therapy to Mission guests.

You must be enrolled in a graduate school that has an internship component to its curriculum, as well as the ability to commit to 20-24 hours a week for a minimum of 7 months.

What you'll do

• Provide individual and group therapy for Mission guests
• Facilitate specific groups based on skills, training and interest
• Maintain clinical documentation and other administrative tasks required for competent care
• Work closely with the Sr. Behavioral Health Counselor to complete all required clinical hours and supervision required by your graduate program within your internship
• Work with each guest and their care team, including case management, to ensure effective communication with client’s support systems and treatment team
• Attend weekly individual and group supervision meetings
• Attend wrap, focus, and staff meetings as scheduled

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Psychology or a related field is required
• Enrolled in a master’s program in Psychology, Counseling or a related field is required
• Experience in social service organizations is highly preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

Benefits

All regular partime employees, you are eligible to participate in our generous benefits package:  

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Commuter Benefit – Parking/Transit Flexible Spending
• Optional Aflac - Short-Term Disability, Accident Insurance, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Vision Hardware Insurance
• First Stop Health Virtual Behavioral Health Access
• 403(b) Retirement Plan

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk or sit for extended periods of time; bend, stoop or reach.  Frequently exposed to varying indoor and outdoor temperatures and weather conditions.  Occasionally will stand, balance, twist, stoop, kneel and reach with hands/arms. Regularly lifts up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Statement of Faith

• We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the infallible, authoritative Word of God.
• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three Persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right-hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
• We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is essential.
• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a Godly life.
• We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.
• We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in Christ.

Mission Statement

To bring the love of Jesus and hope for a new life to our homeless neighbors.

Vision Statement

To see every homeless neighbor - beloved, redeemed, restored

Pre-Employment

This position is subject to a pre-employment criminal background check and must be able to pass a 4 panel drug screen.

Salary : $20 - $29