Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinician - Child Guidance Center Southern CT

Role And Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive, child and family assessments with diagnoses and clinical formulations
• Deliver psychotherapeutic services to children utilizing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions, including individual, family and group therapy modalities
• Provide guidance to parents and/or caregivers utilizing a family engagement framework and helping families access needed services and supports
• Provide assessment and treatment services to victims and witnesses of crime and other potentially traumatic events
• Actively participate in interdisciplinary treatment planning team meetings, supervision and other staff development activities
• Maintain positive collaborative relationships with referral sources and key community providers
• Utilize the agency’s electronic health record (EHR) system to ensure proper and timely completion of all required clinical documentation, program statistics, and outcome data
• Other related activities as needed

Qualifications

• Required Skills and Education:
  • A Master’s degree in clinical social work or community counseling, such as MSW or MFT, or other license track mental health profession
  • License in a mental health profession in Connecticut, or eligible to immediately become licensed (Clinician II and III)
  • The ability to model and promote high quality clinical practice, caring and appropriate professional boundaries in clinical work, compliance with administrative responsibilities, and the development of knowledge and excellence
  • Minimum one year experience providing clinical assessments and psychotherapy with children, adolescents and families (Clinician I), minimum two years post degree experience (Clinician II), minimum three years post degree experienced (Clinician III)
  • Minimum one year experience providing supervision required (Clinician III)
  • An understanding of core theoretical concepts including child development, cognitive-behavioral, attachment, and systems approaches, resilience, and trauma-informed diagnosis and treatment
  • Solid grounding and experience in at least one relevant orientation to treatment, such as psychodynamic, CBT, TF-CBT, family systems and play therapy
  • Verbal and written fluency in English required; bi-lingual fluency in Spanish, Haitian Creole or another language widely spoken in our community, highly desired
  • Experience working with patients from culturally diverse backgrounds, and the ability to demonstrate cultural competence and sensitivity
  • Computer skills required; familiarity with EHR systems a plus
• Physical Requirements/Work Environment:
  • Hours will vary; our schedules range Monday-Friday from 7am-7pm and Saturdays
  • Minimal physical effort. Must be able to operate computer and telephone continuously
  • Regular regional travel as necessary