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Licensed Community Therapist

OLV Human Services$30.00–$36.00/hrLackawanna, NYPosted 1mo agoStill open, checked every night
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This posting states $30–$36 an hour. Open mental health therapist jobs in New York post a median of $28.72 an hour, the middle half $22.15–$38.92, across 176 jobs that state their pay, so this one is within the middle half of what they post. Mental health therapists employed in New York earn a median of $28.58 an hour (source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (May 2025) (source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics).

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About the job

OLV Human Services is looking for a detail-oriented and motivated Per Diem Licensed Community Provider to join our dynamic team!

Pay Range:

$30.00 - $36.00/hour, based on applicable years of experience

Benefits & Perks:

Casual dress code

Free parking

Up to $180 annual gym reimbursement

$$ Employee referral program $$

Responsible to: HCBS Clinical Supervisor

Job Summary

The Licensed Community Therapist provides Other Licensed Practitioner (OLP) services to individuals with behavioral health needs, including counseling, treatment planning, and evaluation. Service is provided to children, foster youth, and families to ensure that they are linked with supports both in the home, and in the community. The OLP researches and communicates with community organizations, and providers to provide a diverse array of services and to ensure all families and staff are aware of the resources available to them in their communities.

Essential Job Duties:

An OLP will provide direct services to clients in their home or community, and oversee the direct service providers as needed, ensuring quality service standards are met provide support, training and coaching to the staff. 1. Provide OLP services, including: Assessments: Treatment Planning: Psychotherapy (Counseling) and Crisis Intervention Activities. 2. Attend New Worker Training and insure DOH, OMH and OPWDD Training standards are met, maintain your records reflecting this. Complete required CEU’s for Licensure. 3. Attend team meetings, staff meetings and supervision sessions as scheduled 4. Report all incidents5. Research community resources and build partnerships to assist with client programming 6.Ensure appropriate chain of command is utilized 7. Complies with all federal and state regulations and agency policies pertaining to HIPAA, false claims, whistleblower policies and all others.8. Completes all documentation in electronic health record, including but not limited to, treatment plans, progress notes, assessments, safety plans.9. Any other duties assigned by your supervisor.

Skills: • Excellent customer skills • Computer skills Competencies: • Communication: Oral and written • Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations • Quality Focus: Promoting and maintaining high standards at work, looking for ways to improve products and services, and encouraging coworkers to do so as well • Problem solving: Takes a systematic approach to solving problems rather than reacting to symptoms • Empowering others: The ability to convey confidence in employees' ability to be successful, especially at challenging new tasks; delegating significant responsibility and authority; allowing employees freedom to decide how they will accomplish their goals and resolve issues. • Taking initiative: Identifying what needs to be done and doing it before being asked or before the situation requires it

Minimum Education Required:

Master’s Degree in Social Work or Mental Health Counseling

Minimum Experience Required:

At least 3 years of experience working with children

License/Registration/ Certifications Required:

•NYS Driver's License (required)

One of the following: •Licensed Psychologist; OR•Licensed Psychoanalyst; OR•Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist; OR•Licensed Mental Health Counselor; OR•Licensed Creative Arts Therapist

Training Requirements: New Hire OrientationAgency required annual trainings including Mandated ReporterProgram specific trainings including Trauma informed care

Physical Requirements:The overall nature of the position is sedentary requiring little physical effort with occasional light physical exertion required.

There is little, if any, exposure to environmental conditions • The constant physical demands of the position are standing and walking.

The frequent physical demands of the position are climbing, talking, hearing, repetitive motions, and eye/hand/foot coordination, sitting.

The occasional physical demands of the position are lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, balancing, stooping, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling

From OLV Human Services's job posting, checked 13 Nov 2026. The employer's own page is the final word on requirements and availability.

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