EMPLOYMENT
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Job Spotlight
Youth Peer Support Specialist
Do you have personal experience receiving behavioral health support? We’re looking for a young adult to use that experience to provide peer mentoring, support, and advocacy to youth through our Mobile Response and Stabilization Services program. To learn more and APPLY HERE.
Crisis Bed Therapist
Provides clinical behavioral health services to clients in the Crisis Bed Program and will carry a small outpatient caseload. This position will provide individual, group, and family therapy for youth admitted to the Crisis Bed Program with a wide variety of psychological and emotional problems (ie. aggressive and defiant behavior due to problems with emotion regulation, suicidal/homicidal ideation, plans, or attempts, family conflicts, etc.) to ensure the safety and wellbeing of clients in a Crisis Bed setting. The incumbent is responsible for clinical consultation to Mental Health Technicians, Crisis Bed Shift Supervisors and Crisis Bed Coordinator. They are dedicated and committed to delivering high-quality, compassionate, and therapeutic client care. In addition, the incumbent is responsible for documentation of clinical and case management services provided from intake through discharge.
Youth Crisis Program Supervisor
Plans, directs and coordinates activities of MRSS (Crisis Intervention/Prevention) to ensure that clinically appropriate goals and procedures are accomplished in accordance with risk factors, time limitations, funding requirements, and JCAHO and licensing regulations.
Mobile Youth Crisis Clinician (Full-Time)
Provides rapid response screening and assessment and counseling intervention services to youth and families experiencing urgent psychological and emotional problems (i.e. aggressive and defiant behavior due to problems with emotion regulation, suicidal/homicidal ideation, plans, or attempts, family conflicts, etc.) while maintaining safety and implementing therapeutic treatment plans in a community-based setting. The incumbent is responsible for conducting risk assessments, consulting with appropriate supervisors or DPBHS workers to make decisions about level of care needed to maintain safety, and providing short-term, therapeutic crisis intervention services for up to 30 days. In addition, the incumbent is responsible for therapeutic documentation of cases from intake through discharge.
Outpatient Therapist- Licensed FT
Responsible for providing clinical behavioral health services at a designated DGS location for children, adolescents, adults, and their families.
ACTP Therapist
The Advanced Clinical Training Program (ACTP) Therapist is a Graduate level (Master's level) clinician responsible for providing clinical behavioral health services to children and families. Clinicians in this program further develop therapeutic skills, build core clinical competencies in a family-based child guidance setting. Clinicians provide therapeutic services under the direct supervision of a licensed clinician while earning their required hours toward licensure.
Where Work/Life Balance Thrives
Our employees say it best—at DGS, you’ll find purpose, growth, and the support to care for yourself while caring for others.
We offer comprehensive and competitive benefits package to our employees:
- Competitive compensation
- Incentive pay plan for certain clinical staff positions
- Medical and dental insurance
- Health savings accounts (HSAs)
- Life, AD&D, LTD, STD
- Paid vacation, sick, and holidays
- 403(b) plan with match and generous contribution
Employee contributions are required for some benefits.
Delaware Guidance Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Apply
To apply for a position, please visit our designated career website.
If you have specific questions, please email Human Resources at our headquarters in Wilmington. (Please indicate the position for which you are applying and where you saw the position advertised.)
Delaware Guidance Services for Children & Youth, Inc.
Attn: Human Resources
1200 N. French Street
Community Education Building 7th Floor
Fax: (302) 652-8292
Email: hrjobs@delawareguidance.org
Advanced Clinical Training Program and DGS Interns
We're gearing up for another great year of training, mentoring and professional development for DGS clinicians, we are accepting applications for the ACTP program and internship placements.
Advanced Clinical Training Program & Internships
Delaware Guidance Services (DGS) offers internship and advanced clinical training opportunities for students and emerging behavioral health professionals interested in gaining hands-on experience serving children, youth, and families.
DGS internships provide students at the associate, bachelor’s, and master’s levels with opportunities to build practical skills and apply their education in a professional behavioral health setting. Our Advanced Clinical Training Program (ACTP) provides post-graduate clinicians with structured clinical training and supervision designed to support professional growth and preparation for state licensure.
Applications are currently being accepted for ACTP and internship placements. To learn more about available opportunities, please contact Cori L. Meek, LPCMH, NCC, ACS, Clinical Professional Development Program Manager, at pd@delawareguidance.org or call 302-262-3505.
Email your Application materials or fax 302-652-8292. Applicants are also encouraged to apply online.
Internship Interest Form
Gain hands-on experience and explore career pathways in behavioral health and related fields with Delaware Guidance Services.
Complete our Internship Interest Form to tell us about yourself, your educational goals, and the experience you’re seeking. We look forward to connecting with future professionals who share our commitment to helping children and families thrive.
What Our Interns Say
"Interning in DGS' outpatient position could not have prepared me more for starting my career as an ACTP Outpatient Clinician. I was able to comfortably ease into the work field, being guided and mentored each day while building my personal and professional confidence in my own therapeutic approaches. I continue to draw from my internship experience daily in the work that I do now, readily equipped to serve my families."
“I was able to develop confidence in utilizing modalities with clients and families and learn strong practice management skills to stay on top of documentation. I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to learn and grow within each day and I look forward to continuing my growth as an individual and clinician”.