Mental Health Clinician - Women's Resource Center

About the role

The Geraldine E King Women’s Resource Center is a 200-bed women’s emergency shelter where this position is based. The role involves providing therapeutic services to women experiencing homelessness and mental illness, including crisis intervention, brief therapy, and on-floor support. The position also includes managing clinical and non-clinical staff, clinical oversight for case management, peer support specialists, and program services, as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical services to clients experiencing homelessness and mental illness in a women’s shelter, including making referrals to higher level of care, creating safety plans, referrals to ongoing mental health services, facilitating group therapy, overseeing the facility’s group therapy schedule, providing brief individual counseling, and crisis intervention.
• Holds weekly Clinical Supervision meeting with housing case managers and peer support specialists to go over client cases and provide appropriate clinical direction and guidance.
• Oversee the training and implementation of evidenced based best practices such as motivational interviewing, stages of change, trauma informed practices and procedures, etc.
• Consistently monitor client flow between case managers and peer support specialists to assure client connection to ongoing supportive services, community connection, and housing focus.
• Collaborate with Management team to identify high shelter utilizers and clients with high/acute behavioral health needs to create strategies to assist clients through service engagement.
• Provide regularly scheduled supervision, performance evaluations, and disciplinary processes with direct reports.
• Oversee high acuity cases, assisting with referrals, clinical support, and interventions in collaboration with case management and management team.
• Review, on an ongoing basis, the clinical services offered at the Women’s Resource Center and develop new programs and/or services as need emerges and assist in the integration of behavioral health.
• Maintain clinical records, record daily service, client case files.
• Develop and maintain effective therapeutic alliance with clients, including conceptualizing and fostering effective therapeutic process.
• Participate in interagency case consultation as necessary while adhering to agency’s confidentiality policy.
• Develop and maintain relationships with community partners.
• Attend work as scheduled and arrive at the designated time.
• Work must be performed on-site due to the need to provide direct client care and program support/oversight.

Requirements

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in a mental health discipline (CMHC, LCSW, CSW, MFT, etc.) and Utah licensure as a mental health therapist.
• Possess an active/current licensure status and remain in good standing with the Division of Professional Licensing.
• Demonstrates an ability to use sound judgment within the scope of the position’s responsibilities.
• Able to maintain professionalism and adapt to change.
• Organized, detail-oriented, and self-starter.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; attention to detail.
• Demonstrated skills in crisis intervention.
• Ability to uphold professional boundaries, confidentiality regulations, agency policies and procedures, and interact in a professional manner with a diverse workforce, clients, and the public.
• Willingness to accept supervision and direction.
• Drives are required: Must be at least 21 years of age, possess a current driver’s license, have a good driving record, and be insurable on the agency liability policy.
• Must be able to pass Utah-DHHS – Office of Licensing background screening and pre-employment drug screen.