JOB SUMMARY:

The Early Childhood Clinician II provides comprehensive child mental health services to children ages 0-8: Working in classrooms, providing home visits and/or in-office counseling; working with families, teachers/caregivers, and may provide supervision to assigned graduate interns. Services include brief counseling, classroom intervention/observation, teacher consultation, parent guidance, case management, community trainings, family assessments and standardized assessments, and the integration of several evidence-based practices. Because of the age of the children served, staff work integrally with the adults and the environment of the children including parents and teachers. Training and orientation is provided to help new staff integrate those practices and developmentally appropriate approaches for the younger population served. The Clinician one integrates practice and strategies associated with neuroscience, trauma informed care, dual generation practices and resiliency, while ensuring that services provided are in alignment with the Social Determinants of Health through a trauma informed care lens as defined by the agency.

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

1. Reports to: Manager or other supervisor as assigned

2. Directs: May supervise master’s level counseling, guidance and counseling, marriage and family therapy, or social work practicum students. May be assigned as a field instructor, community presenter, and/or agency committee member with responsibilities

3. Other: Works cooperatively with all staff to accomplish the mission, goals, objectives and performance measures of the program and agency. ESSENTIAL PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS AND FUNCTIONS :

Required Competencies/Skills:

1. Healthcare and Human Services Environments: Ability to explain issues and advancements in the healthcare and human services industries.

2. Achievement Orientation: A concern for surpassing a standard of excellence. The standard may be one's own past performance; an objective measure; outperforming others; challenging goals, or something that has not been done previously.

3. Community Orientation: Ability to align one's own and the organization's priorities and assess and address community needs in an evidence-based and holistic manner, one that addresses the social determinants of health through a trauma-informed lens.

4. Professionalism and Ethics: The demonstration of ethics and sound professsional practices, as well as stimulation social accountability and community stewardship. The desire to act in a way that is consistent with one's values and what one says is important.

5. Interpersonal Understanding: Ability to understand other people as well as to accurately hear and understand the unspoken or partly expressed throughts, feelings, and concerns of others. It measures increasing complexity and depth of understanding of others and includes cross-cultural sensitivity through a trauma-informed care lens.

Agency Functions:

1. Community and Customer Service - Increase client access, enrollment, and satisfaction of program resources by creating wraparound services, recruitment, and surveying strategies.

2. Internal Processes - Use agency and program data to track clients through different agency programs to gauge resiliency and outcomes of participating families.

3. Learning and Growth - Strengthen staff and client well-being by addressing the social determinants of health: Economic Stability, Education, Health and Healthcare, Neighborhood supports, Social and Community Engagement.

Essential Functions:

1. Ensures that clients have access, as needed, to all five pillars of the social determinants of health with a trauma informed lens through Agency services and/or community partners.

2. Achieve a minimum of 62% direct service productivity standards based on an agency definition of Direct Service while carrying either a full caseload with no additional duties or a modified caseload when assigned other duties such as community visibilities, stakeholder meetings, community collaborations and/or agency related initiatives.

3. Assists with scheduling appointments and on call responses (as applicable): inputting into scheduling systems, assisting with intake referrals, scheduling regular ongoing client sessions aligned with service plan goals.

4. Completes clinical assessments – standardized, family, and/or biopsychosocial assessments.

5. Creates behavioral, intervention, service or treatment plans to include comprehensive measureable goal setting and tracking progress, completes appropriate ongoing documentation, completes case closure and other required forms.

6. A minimum 75% of clients on assigned caseload at initial to end of performance period will demonstrate improvement using standardized testing (pre and post).

7. Carries out plans working directly with clients (individuals), family, groups, couples, or teachers/providers, caregivers by providing clinical services (office, home, classroom, and other settings), AND providing psychoeducation, case management support, and crisis counseling to include intervention and stabilization based on crisis evaluation(s), and making referrals as needed with follow-up.

8. Maintains clinical records and documentation in accordance with agency standards and contract requirements and achieve 80% Quality Assurance Compliance at initial review and a minimum of 90% post review.

9. Receives monthly supervision with assigned supervisor and reviews/staffs cases with clinical supervisors and/or other clinicians (keeping supervisor informed of updates to help track progress and modify interventions on a quarterly basis.

10. Enters required data into appropriate system (database – ex: client track, compulink, Childplus, including billing and scheduling, etc.) ensuring compliance with full utilization and with agency and to contract standards and expectations at all times.

11. Maintains ongoing clinical training (workshops, in-service, conferences, consultations) industry personal licensures/certifications.

12. Provides court ordered documents and/or testimony as subpoenaed and following agency protocol.

13. Provide professional and information presentations to community collaborators and as requested.

14. Integrates best and evidence-based practices as applicable and/or as required by contracts and complies with agency and clinical professional practice and standards.

15. Provides supervision of interns working on graduate degree, if applicable.

16. Participates in various internal and external meetings, staffings and consultations e.g. child protective services, school, contractual, peer consultations, multidisciplinary staffings and/or ARD meetings, etc.

17. Maintain good relationships with stakeholders (including current and potential clients, community and co-workers), focusing on providing excellent and culturally sensitive customer service and presenting a positive image of the agency in all community and stakeholder interactions.

18. Provides regular ongoing supervision as required by agency and licensing standards for assigned LMFT-A’s, LPC-Interns, LMSW’s or other assigned staff.

19. Maintain a working environment which encourages mutual respect, promotes respectful and congenial relationships between employees and is free from all forms of harassment.

20. Perform other duties as assigned, including presentations to community groups and organizations, in accordance with the agency’s “team” philosophy.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job satisfactorily, an individual must be able to perform each essential performance requirement satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the training, experience, knowledge, and skills required for this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions listed above.

Education/Training/Experience:

1. Master’s degree in Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Social work or other related areas.

2. Certificate or license, as applicable, by the appropriate state agency preferred. The Clinician II must hold at least one of the following: (1) LPC or LMFT and must have an active CAQH listing (Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare database), AND an active Medicaid approved credentialing. (2) LCSW and must have an active CAQH listing (Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare database) AND Medicare approved. (3) LMSW while actively working on the LCSW with appropriate documented clinical supervision. .

3. Two years post masters experience.

4. Prefer fluency in English and Spanish (read, write, and speak) desirable.

5. Staff will be required to submit proof of their vaccination status or may request to be exempt from vaccination due to a religious and/or medical accommodation.

6. Certificate or license, as applicable, by the appropriate State agency as a qualified practitioner.

7. State of Texas vehicle operator’s license and proof of liability insurance.