Sr Clinical Therapist

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide intensive clinical and crisis intervention services to children at imminent risk of hospitalization and their families.
  • Individual psychotherapy, family therapy, group therapy, psychiatric rehabilitation and mental health evaluations.
  • Face-to-face contact with children and their families in their own homes or communities as prescribed in the Individual Treatment Plan.
  • Coordination of services through documented meetings, documented telephone conversations and correspondence.
  • Complete assessment and treatment plan in accordance with CFTO standards.
  • Provide emergency evaluations to children and adolescents at imminent risk of psychiatric hospitalization, provide crisis intervention services to children at imminent risk of hospitalization in an attempt to stabilize client within the home or community in order to deter hospitalization within a timely manner, including documentation of interventions, alternatives considered and response of client/client family and supporting agencies.
• Maintain a minimum of 23 hours of direct care productivity per week.
• Provide, coordinate and monitor treatment services for all assigned CFTO cases.
  • Face-to-face and telephone contact with client, documented in progress notes following established procedures, as prescribed in the Individual Treatment Plan.
  • Provision and coordination of care prescribed in the Treatment Plan through documented contact and implementation of assigned activities.
• Responds to on-call requests within 10 minutes of receiving page or telephone request, responds in person when required within 60 minutes and completes reporting and documentation requirements as specified in procedures.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in social work or a related mental health field as approved by DCYF contract.
• Must be a qualified Medicaid practitioner as per DCYF regulation.
• Experience working with emotionally disturbed children or other relevant experience desirable.

Necessary Special Requirements

• Valid driver’s license.
• Insured automobile and required liability insurance.

Job Knowledge, Skill, And Ability

• Ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally with clients, family members, supervisor, other agency staff, community professionals and other members of the community.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from professionals, managers, family and the general public.
• Ability to successfully complete all required training and certifications.
• Oral and written communication skills, including speech, grammar, spelling, and legibility are at sufficient level to ensure effective and appropriate communication.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals either manually or by use of a calculator.

Physical/Environmental Demands

• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, office equipment, or controls and talk or hear.
• Frequently required to walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, and climb.
• Occasionally required to stand; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and taste or smell.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the abilities to adjust focus.
• Works in outside weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Pay Range

$61,422.40-$101,337.60