Overview
The Employee Assistance Therapist is a skilled professional practitioner with competence in the roles of clinician, educator, liaison, and resource person. The therapist has the ethical and professional obligation to provide clients with the best possible care within the limits of program parameters. The therapist helps to establishes goals and priorities in accordance with employee and organizational needs.
Clinical Competencies and Skills:
Clinical Skills: Proficient in providing Solution Focused Short-Term therapy for individuals, families, and groups, crisis intervention, and critical incident response.
Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication abilities for effective interaction with clients and colleagues.
Interpersonal Skills: Ability to build trusting relationships with clients and collaborate with team members across the organization.
Analytical Skills: Strong capability in assessing client needs, organizational needs, and program effectiveness.
Organizational Skills: Ability to manage scheduling, documentation, and program data effectively.
Ethical Judgment: Commitment to maintaining confidentiality and adhering to ethical guidelines.
Teaching Skills: Competence in developing and delivering mental health education to employees in large and small audiences.
Innovative Treatment Methods: Knowledge of and ability to utilize pet therapy as a treatment modality.
Assume responsibility for own clinical competency and continued education.
Collaborate with the healthcare team, including HR and department managers, regarding specific employee needs.
Work with Human Resources and organizational management when notified of mandatory EAP referrals.
Coordinates with Organizational Development and Learning (ODL) on employee engagement opportunities and interventions
Assessment and Treatment:
Develop and utilize methods for assessments, treatments, and referrals, delivering care in a systematic manner.
Confidentiality and Ethics:
Required Experience
- Minimum of 2 years of clinical experience.
- Demonstrates familiarity with short-term crisis intervention, individual and group psychotherapy, family intervention, workplace performance, and workplace dynamics.
- Possesses a broad understanding of various theoretical perspectives in evaluating patient/staff needs and responses.
Required Licensure/Education
- Masters degree in counseling, social work, or a related field.
- Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).
Employee Health Requirements
Exposure/Sensory Requirements:
- Chemicals: Refer to MSDS Sheets
- Video Display Terminals: Average
- Blood and Body Fluids: None
- TB or Airborne Pathogens: None other than normal environment exposure.
Sensory requirements (speech, vision, smell, hearing, touch):
- Speech: Required to communicate during presentations/training, telephone communication, facilitate meetings, communication with applicants, interviewees and employees.
- Vision: Needed to read memos and literature, online information, type correspondence from handwritten material and to coordinate calendars.
- Smell: Helpful to note presence of electrical/fire safety.
- Hearing: Needed for telephone communication, meetings, alarms and listening to employee, applicant and interviewee concerns.
- Touch: Needed to write, computer entry, filing.
Activity/Lifting Requirements
Percentage of time during the normal workday the employee is required to:
- Sit: 80%
- Twist: 0%
- Stand: 20%
- Crawl: 0%
- Walk: 15%
- Kneel: 1%
- Lift: 1%
- Drive: 0%
- Squat: 2%
- Climb: 0%
- Bend: 5%
- Reach above shoulders: 2%
The weight required to be lifted each normal workday according to the continuum described below:
- Up to 10 lbs: Occasionally
- Up to 20 lbs: Occasionally
- Up to 35 lbs: Occasionally
- Up to 50 lbs: Not Required
- Up to 75 lbs: Not Required
- Up to 100 lbs: Not Required
- Over 100 lbs: Not Required
Describe and explain the lifting and carrying requirements. (Example: the distance material is carried; how high material is lifted, etc.): Put supplies away. May have to carry supplies up to 20' to put away, sometimes overhead. Carry reports and service awards or prizes; put paper in printer or copy machine. Requires carrying of materials for recruitment meetings varying distances.
Maximum consecutive time (minutes) during the normal workday for each activity:
- Sit: 300
- Twist: 0
- Stand: 120
- Crawl: 0
- Walk: 60
- Kneel: 0
- Lift: 5
- Drive: 0
- Squat: 30
- Climb: 0
- Bend: 15
- Reach above shoulders: 15
Repetitive use of hands (Frequency indicated):
- Simple grasp up to 1 lbs. Normal weight: frequent
- Pushing & pulling Normal weight: 5# frequent
- Fine Manipulation: Typing, phone dialing, computer entry, writing, using calculator.
- Repetitive use of foot or feet in operating machine control: None
Environmental Factors & Special Hazards
Environmental Factors (Time Spent):
- Inside hours: 8-10 hours per day based upon work hours
- Outside hours : 0
- Temperature: Normal Range
- Lighting: Average
- Noise levels: Average
- Humidity: Normal Range
- Atmosphere: Normal Range
Special Hazards:
Protective Clothing Required: None
Pay Range
USD $34.18 - USD $44.45 /Hr
