Knox BRIDGES Master's Level Liaison

Serves as the primary clinician providing counseling and liaison services to a predetermined number of children, youth, and families in the Knox County School (KCS) System. Provides weekly individual and family psychotherapy to children and adolescents ages 4-21 with a mental health diagnosis, psycho-social assessments, diagnosis, and appropriate referrals. Offers crisis intervention and emergency services, interfaces with schools and agencies, and delivers information, referral, agency linkage, advocacy, home visits, and follow-up services.

Responsibilities

• Conducts individual, family, and group counseling.
• Provides advocacy, linkage, and referral services as needed.
• Performs mental health assessments.
• Participates in IEP and other school-related meetings.
• Delivers parent education.
• Maintains appropriate chart records and interfaces professionally with school personnel and other agencies.
• Conducts group sessions with children and/or parents.
• Completes all documentation in a timely manner, upholding center policy, procedures, and CARF standards.
• Provides individual/family psychotherapy for children ages 4-21, ensuring sessions begin on time and missed sessions are rescheduled.
• Communicates accurate and thorough information to outside agencies when clients require different or more appropriate care.
• Ensures therapy contacts are completed monthly according to program standards.
• Meets weekly with direct supervisor to discuss clinical and administrative concerns.
• Completes diagnostic psycho-social assessments within 5 business days of contact, coordinating with the Assessment Team.
• Provides intake coverage as directed by the Team Leader.
• Ensures all family/client participation in treatment planning, creating and implementing treatment interventions reflected in progress notes.
• Responds to flags, emails, and voicemails within specified timeframes (2 business days for flags/emails, 30 minutes for voicemails).
• Attends weekly/biweekly treatment teams with school personnel and monthly staffing meetings.
• Participates in school-based meetings with school personnel and community partners.
• Completes all required clinical documentation in accordance with Center Policy and funding source guidelines, including updating treatment plans, crisis plans, and other records every 6 months.
• Completes intakes within 10 days of school referral and submits productivity summaries by the 3rd business day of the month.
• Creates daily progress notes and signs them in the EMR within one week of service provided.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Human Services or related field with coursework or experience in cultural diversity, human development, etiology and treatment of mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, physical and sexual abuse, and intellectual disabilities.
• Demonstrated knowledge and competency in mental health service provision and leadership.
• Coursework or experience in cultural diversity, human development, mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, physical and sexual abuse, suicide, and intellectual disabilities.
• One year of experience preferred; experience working with children is preferred but not required.
• Experience or training in the Re-Education Philosophy or willingness to acquire such training.
• Ability to effectively and ethically counsel children and families, present professionally, and work within a team format.
• Ability to run and process groups with children and families, exercise sound judgment under pressure, and demonstrate effective decision-making.
• Strong communication, time management, and organizational skills, with flexibility and adaptability to work with diverse populations.
• CPR and First Aid Certification required (training provided).
• Training and certification in verbal de-escalation methods and personal/client safety techniques (training provided).
• Physical ability to implement de-escalation techniques at McNabb Center facilities (not in community settings).
• Valid driver’s license and "F" endorsement for occasional transportation of clients.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and perform frequent sitting, standing, walking, bending, stooping, and reaching.
• Basic computer skills for email, timekeeping, and documentation in the electronic medical record.

Schedule

• Year-round, 40 hours per week, not limited to the school schedule.
• Essential job function requires reliable, predictable on-site attendance in schools and/or community settings.

Travel

• Requires use of a personal, dependable vehicle to conduct Center business.
• Maintaining a dependable vehicle and certified driver status is a condition of employment.

Pay

Starting salary for this position is approximately $52,274 per year based on relevant experience and education.