Clinician - Children's MH Support & Stabilization Services

About the role

Support & Stabilization Clinicians work as a team with Outreach Workers and sometimes a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) to support youth whose families are involved with The Department of Children and Families.

Responsibilities

• Engage in a comprehensive and on-going assessment process.
  • Initial assessments will include 5 Protective Factors Survey (assessing parental resilience, knowledge of parenting and child development, social connections, support in times of need, and social and emotional competence of children), as well as a comprehensive assessment to assess functioning and needs across multiple domains.
  • This may also include a specialized assessment to address the unique needs of individuals with co-occurring substance use or other co-occurring complex conditions.
• Develop a treatment plan with the youth and family with goals that are clearly and measurably defined, individualized and reflect and target the needs identified in the comprehensive assessment.
• Implement home-based individual therapy interventions that are evidence based or grounded in promising practices and utilize techniques that have proven effective for the presenting issues such as but not limited to: Motivational Interviewing, trauma informed CBT, DBT, Collaborative Problem-Solving, Multi-Systemic Therapy, Attachment Regulation Competency, Solution Focused Therapy.
• Provide ongoing safety assessment, planning and on-call crisis support that includes on call telephonic support, 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
• Coordinate services, ensuring they are integrated and clinically coherent across all treatment providers and supports to the youth.
• Facilitates Treatment Planning/Review meetings as assigned.
• Support the caregiver and the youth in developing strategies for self-care, identifying respite care formal and informal respite care providers and accessing respite care.
• Adheres to Edinburg Center policies and procedures.
• Complies with all state and local licensing/ certification requirements and regulations.
• Participates in daily Support and Stabilization team meetings, and departmental staff meetings and trainings as required.
• Engages in weekly supervision.
• Keeps abreast of and presents relevant current literature.
• Consults with other professionals regarding their expertise.

Requirements

• Has earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work, Clinical Psychology or Education with a Clinical Concentration (or related field) and possesses LCSW, LICSW, LMHC, or Psychologist licensure.
• Prior experience working with youth with emotional and behavioral health disturbances and their families.
• Valid MA driver’s license and reliable transportation required.
• Strong documentation and clinical writing skills.
• Bilingual/bicultural, experience working with youth with behavioral challenges, lived experience, supervisory experience, and knowledge of EBP models preferred.

Qualifications

• Has earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work, Clinical Psychology or Education with a Clinical Concentration (or related field) and possesses LCSW, LICSW, LMHC, or Psychologist licensure.
• Prior experience working with youth with emotional and behavioral health disturbances and their families.
• Valid MA driver’s license and reliable transportation required.
• Strong documentation and clinical writing skills.
• Bilingual/bicultural, experience working with youth with behavioral challenges, lived experience, supervisory experience, and knowledge of EBP models preferred.

Skills

• Strong documentation and clinical writing skills.
• Bilingual/bicultural, experience working with youth with behavioral challenges, lived experience, supervisory experience, and knowledge of EBP models preferred.

Benefits

• Excellent benefits package for both full and part-time staff, including health and dental (must work a minimum of 30 hours), vision, life, short- and long-term disability insurance as well as a 401(k)-retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off benefits include vacation, personal, sick and holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement, conference, seminar, certification, and specialized training funding, as well as free clinical supervision for licensure.

Pay

$65,208K annually

Schedule

Full-time position