Employees with Satisfactory performance, who start at the first step of this classification, receive wage increases after the first six months of service.
Future increases occur at one-year intervals up to the maximum salary.
In addition, the County provides employee and dependent life insurance and an Employee Assistance Program. Incumbents must be registered interns with the Board of Behavioral Science Examiners. Incumbents are supervised for clinical hours towards licensure and will learn and perform duties of increasing complexity in assessment, diagnosis, crisis intervention, individual and group counseling, non-medical psychotherapy, treatment planning and case management, and professional consultation. This class is flexibly staffed with Behavioral Health Therapist II, and incumbents normally advance to the higher level after attaining the clinical hours required to be license eligible. Incumbents have met the educational and clinical requirements to be license eligible and exercise independent judgment within the scope of established policies and procedures.