Description

The Clinical Counselor will assess, diagnose, and treat children and adolescents who may have mental, social, or emotional disorders. Assessments, diagnoses, and treatments will be part of an interdisciplinary approach with pediatricians at Just 4 Kids Primary Care and Urgent Care, Case Managers, child advocacy groups, and social workers where needed to provide the most complete patient care.

Essential Duties include:

• Excellent communication skills to connect with children and adolescents of all ages, backgrounds, and cultures.
• Educates family members on what they can do for their child or how to respond to certain behaviors.
• Trained in a variety of assessment tactics to connect with children who are suffering from a variety of conditions.
• Assists children in the success of day-to-day activities and in meeting developmental milestones.
• Coordinates patient care with necessary disciplines.
• Develops treatment plans.
• Assists in coordination of referrals.
• Meets regularly with patients to ensure that patient needs are continually assessed as well as ongoing treatment plans.
• Ensures that the needful information is available to Primary Care Provider on an ongoing basis and any significant change in patient status or condition is communicated in a timely fashion.
• Court appearances and deposition testimony may be necessary in cases where children are removed from the home due to abusive or neglectful conditions.

Additional

• Develop integrated mental health/primary care model with Medical Director.
• Leads the mental/behavioral health team

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in psychology and graduate degree in clinical or child psychology.
• Maintains standards of care and practice at all times.
• Adheres to all professional, ethical, and legal regulations as determined by regulatory bodies and the law.
• Attends team meetings and CE courses

Preferred

• Ph.D. or Psy.D. in child psychology and candidates at post-doctoral level preferred.
• Several years practical experience working with children in clinical setting.

Supervision of Others

• Counselors, social workers, interns, students, and other professionals.

Travel

• /- 10%

Work Environment

• Typically work is performed in an office or clinic setting.
• Occasional work performed in offsite or other clinical locations.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.