Clinician - Youth Community Crisis Stabilization

Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions

• Provide information to the youth and family about wellness, recovery, crisis self-management, and how to access wellness and recovery services in their community
• Primarily responsible for conducting comprehensive assessments inclusive of standardized assessment tools for suicide risk, brief crisis counseling, individualized risk management/safety planning, psychoeducation, discharge planning, and care coordination
• The master’s-level clinician will conduct and oversee individual, group, and family therapy
• Conduct a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment (within timeframes designated by program specifications), may include weekends or holidays (as identified by on call schedule) or as soon as the youth and family are able to participate in the process
• Identify current providers and collateral contacts to obtain more comprehensive information and insight into the youth and their family
• Aid in facilitating youth admissions and discharges
• Address precipitating events that led to the current admission
• Include recommendations that identify the clinical, social, and medical components needed to support the youth and parent/guardian in ensuring a safe return to home, school, and community
• Participate as part of youth assigned multi-disciplinary treatment team (within timeframes designated by program specifications), review comprehensive assessment and psychiatric assessment and in collaboration with the youth and family identify an initial treatment plan (within timeframes designated by program specifications)
• Review and update treatment and discharge plan as appropriate at least every 24 hours, based on youth’s individual progress
• Specify the goals and actions needed to address the medical, social, therapeutic, educational, and other strengths and needs of the youth
• Identify strategies to support youth/family/guardian in reducing stressors that lead to YCCS
• Coordinate with existing services providers, which may include Intensive Care Coordinators (ICC), In-Home Therapy (IHT), PCP/PCC, CBHC, school, and others
• Coordinate discharge planning with focus on identification of anticipated services that will facilitate and support the youth’s rapid return to the community
• Participate in trainings as specified in performance specifications, (for example, UMass Clinical Assessment and Intervention training, dialectical behavioral therapy skills training, and cognitive behavioral therapy skills training)
• Perform clinical reviews and obtain insurance authorizations as needed
• Observe youths in structured milieu, provide supportive interventions to youths, and assist in behavioral de-escalation techniques, and/or supervision of youths as needed
• Utilize Massachusetts Behavioral Health Access (MABHA) website to update daily capacity as instructed, use website to locate other services for youth in assisting with aftercare planning and referrals
• Coordinate with existing services providers, which may include Intensive Care Coordinators (ICC), In-Home Therapy (IHT), PCP/PCC, CBHC, school, and others
• Coordinate discharge planning with focus on identification of anticipated services that will facilitate and support the youth’s rapid return to the community
• Participate in the rotation of on-call responsibilities
• Work collaboratively within Acute Care Services to cross train and provide coverage as needed
• All members of clinical team have shared responsibility for all youth on unit. Cases will be divided as needed to meet individual youth needs
• Participate in regularly scheduled supervision, staff meetings, staff development and training curricula

Benefits

Child and Family Services recognizes the power in Diversity and believes that Equity is a Human Right.

Language Differential! (eligible languages include: Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL)

Pay

Depending on role eligibility, your offer may include a bonus or other incentives. Therefore, final offer amounts may vary from the amount stated.

$1 per hour

Schedule

AVAILABLE SHIFTS: SATURDAY & SUNDAY 9AM-5PM (some flexibility between 8AM-6PM)