# Mental Health Clinician 1/2 — Family & Community Services · Alaska Jobs [← The Board](https://alaskajobs.org/) · [Healthcare jobs](https://alaskajobs.org/jobs/healthcare) # Mental Health Clinician 1/2 Family & Community Services - **Location** — Fairbanks, AK - **PCN** — 064961 - **Salary** — $2,632.50 - $3,033.75 Biweekly (Range 19) - **Type** — Full Time - **Open to** — All State Employees - **Bargaining unit** — General Government - **Timing** — Year-round - **Posted** — 2026-07-15 - **Closes** — 2026-07-22 - **Source** — Workplace Alaska (State of Alaska) (synced) Job Description This position is open to State Employees Only. The Division of Juvenile Justice is recruiting to fill a Mental Health Clinician 2 position located in Fairbanks at the Fairbanks Youth Facility. What You Will Be Doing Influence, inspire, and transform the lives of detained youth and their families through therapeutic programs that incorporate the restorative justice, trauma informed, and culturally aware approaches to community protection, youth accountability, and competency development. Under general supervision, this position: Provides a broad range of mental health counseling services to detained youth in a secure residential setting, long term treatment, and probation; Provides skilled and intensive psychotherapeutic casework for justice involved youth and families; Is responsible for ongoing clinical support, guidance, training, and collaboration with multidisciplinary staff at the Fairbanks Youth Facility and in the northern region to facilitate effective clinical interventions and treatment approaches for youth experiencing behavioral/mental health issues. Our Organization, Mission, and Culture Through Restorative Justice, we hold juvenile offenders accountable for their behavior; promote the safety and restoration of victims and communities; and assist offenders and their families in developing the skills to prevent crime. Our core values include: Prioritizing Safety – of our youth, staff, families, and communities Responsiveness – providing timely response to youth, families, victims, staff, and justice partners. Professional Relationships – recognizing that successful treatment services provided to our clients, coworkers, victims, and others rely on positive, respectful, and collaborative relationships and a spirit of inclusiveness. Dedication – doing the right things for the right reasons and modeling relentless integrity and leadership. Respect – for the inherent value of each person's unique strengths and individual differences. The Benefits of Joining Our Team Join an amazing team of staff who are leading the nation in the field of justice involved youth. We provide cutting edge, evidence-based behavioral health programs and mental health services in our efforts to make meaningful change in youths' lives. Take advantage of a unique opportunity to learn and grow professionally, while serving Alaska's youth and families. Our staff are tirelessly dedicated to providing high-quality services, despite obstacles, and we believe in enhancing the strengths of our staff by promoting training and professional development. The Working Environment You Can Expect Located in Fairbanks Alaska, Fairbanks Youth Facility works with a fluctuating population of youth with varying legal circumstances as well as variety of behavioral/mental health needs. Mental Health Clinicians are part of a multi-disciplinary team of professionals working to promote safety, hold offenders accountable, and assist in the development of skills needed to prevent crime. Who We Are Looking For In addition to the Minimum Qualifications below, we are looking for a candidate with the following competencies: Conscientiousness : Displays a high level of effort and commitment towards performing work; demonstrates responsible behavior. Decisiveness: Makes well-informed, effective, and timely decisions, even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; perceives the impact and implications of decisions. Oral Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately. To view the general description and example of duties for the Mental Health Clinician 1/2, please go to the following link: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/alaska/classspecs?keywords=mental%20health%20clinician Minimum Qualifications Mental Health Clinician 1: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in counseling, psychology, social work, child guidance, vocational rehabilitation, or a closely related field. Mental Health Clinician 2: Master’s degree from an accredited college in counseling, psychology, social work, child guidance, vocational rehabilitation, or a closely related field. AND Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities in Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information. Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change. Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences. Psychology: Knowledge of the concepts, principles, and theories of human behavior and performance in various contexts, mental processes, or the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental ailments, and career guidance. Equivalent to those typically gained by: Professional experience performing psychotherapeutic casework. “Professional experience” means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment. "Training" and "education" in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs. "Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job. Special Note: Some positions require the incumbent be licensed as a Clinical Social Worker or a Licensed Professional Counselor. This requirement will be addressed in the job posting. Additional Required Information At time of interview applicant must submit : Copy of transcripts (unofficial are okay, please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts). Three (3) names & phone numbers of professional references. Two (2) performance evaluations from previous employers, if available. Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission. BACKGROUND CHECK The successful candidate must pass a comprehensive background investigation, which includes a state and FBI fingerprint-based background check. SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS For your application to be evaluated you must answer the Supplemental Questions. FLEXIBLY STAFFED This position is flexibly staffed. This vacancy may be filled at either level, depending on the applicant's training and/or experience. It is recommended that you apply for all levels if you qualify. EDUCATION To verify education being used to meet the required minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. 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