Sr Primary Therapist

Job Title: Sr Primary Therapist

Location: Jersey City Medical Center

Department Name: OP Child Partial Hosp

Req #: 0000271075

Status: Hourly

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $31.00 - $35.45 per hour

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated hourly wage range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Senior Primary Therapist - RWJBarnabas Health
At RWJBarnabas Health, our Senior Primary Therapist becomes part of a purpose-driven environment where compassion, clinical excellence, and patient-centered care create meaningful opportunities to support children, adolescents, and families on their mental health journey. This Licensed Clinician role offers opportunities for professional growth, interdisciplinary collaboration, and a trauma-informed culture committed to safety, healing, and continuous improvement. As a Licensed Clinician in our OP Child Partial Hosp. department, you will play an essential role in delivering evidence-based behavioral health services, developing individualized treatment plans, and partnering with a strong, clinically based multidisciplinary team dedicated to promoting resilience, recovery, and emotional well-being across youth populations. Joining RWJBarnabas Health means joining a community where every Licensed Clinician is encouraged to grow, contribute, and make a lasting impact.

A typical day for a Licensed Clinician may include:

• Delivering direct clinical services, including individual, group, and family psychotherapy, crisis intervention, case management, and outreach services to children, adolescents, and their families in a supportive outpatient and partial hospitalization setting.
• Ensuring all clinical service delivery fully reflects relevant age and developmental considerations for the youth being treated.
• Developing a comprehensive history of the patient, including psychosocial development, current functioning, presenting problems, and treatment history through interviews with the patient, family, and significant others.
• Managing the timely development, implementation, monitoring, and documentation of the initial interdisciplinary treatment plan.
• Facilitating the appropriate termination of care with assigned patients as per the treatment plan, ensuring seamless follow-up and timely documentation.
• Submitting closed medical records to the clinical supervisor on time and in full compliance with organizational standards.
  Attending weekly clinical supervision and taking an active role in continuous clinical learning.
• Participating in and presenting complex cases during multidisciplinary case conferences to ensure high-quality, coordinated care.
• Taking responsibility for professional growth through on-going participation in educational programs on-site and off-site, including providing clinical oversight to interns in the program.
• Actively contributing to the department's customer satisfaction goals and quality improvement initiatives.

This role might be for you if:

• Compassion and empathy guide your approach to caring for children, adolescents, and families experiencing complex behavioral health challenges.
• You are eager to join a dynamic, clinically focused multidisciplinary team operating within a trauma-informed framework.
• Strong clinical assessment and critical thinking skills enable you to develop effective treatment plans and respond confidently to changing patient needs in pediatric and adolescent care.
• You communicate effectively and build trusting therapeutic relationships with young patients, their families, and your clinical colleagues.
• Collaboration is central to your practice, and you enjoy working as part of an active outpatient and partial hospitalization behavioral health team.
• You value professional growth, clinical supervision, and lifelong learning as essential components of your career, and enjoy guiding the next generation of clinicians.
• You maintain professionalism, organization, and strict attention to detail while balancing clinical documentation, patient care, and regulatory compliance.

To be considered for this Licensed Clinician opportunity, you will have:

• Master's degree in Social Work, Counseling Psychology, or a related field required.
• Current New Jersey professional license required (LSW, LAC, LCSW, LPC, or Licensed Clinical Psychologist); candidates who are near-licensed will also be considered.
• At least one (1) year of experience working with children and/or adolescents is required.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed practices and experience utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is highly preferred.
• Proven competence in comprehensive youth psychosocial assessments, therapeutic interventions, crisis management, and compliant documentation workflows.
• Scheduling: Full-Time Day Shift: Scheduled 40 hours per week.