Adolescent Clinician

POSITION : Adolescent Clinician

CLASSIFICATION: Full-time, Exempt

HOURS: 37.5 hours per week- Hybrid (Two Days Remote)

Monday-Thursday 1pm-9pm / Friday 9am-5pm

REPORTS TO: Director of Clinic Operations

SUMMARY: Bleuler Psychotherapy Center (BPC), a growing organization providing whole person care in the region, is in search of passionate individuals to join our rapidly growing team! We are seeking a dynamic Adolescent Clinician for our OMH Youth Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), who is culturally competent and experienced in engaging youth/Adolescents with complex challenges and trauma. The Adolescent Specialist will be liable for conducting assessments, evaluating patients’ mental health status and formulating treatment plans for a caseload of patients ranging between the ages of 12-17 years old.

The Adolescent Clinician will support recovery by providing services that reflect our deeply held values that include the recognition of individual rights of self-determination, choice, shared decision-making, and collaboration. When possible, the Adolescent Clinician will utilize evidence-based practices; always embracing a trauma-informed and person-centered approach.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Provide culturally sensitive direct, clinical services, including but not limited to assessment and treatment planning, individual, family, and group psychotherapy (as per IOP schedule), crisis counseling, and community consultation and education to a caseload of patients ages 12-17 years old. Caseload is comprised of multicultural patients with varying DSM V diagnoses and presenting with high risk or low risk symptoms and behaviors.

· Provides evidence-based and developmentally appropriate screenings/assessment, and focused patient/family counseling/therapy in accordance with the patient's/family's right to self-determination and principles of confidentiality.

· Conducts Initial Assessments for youth referred from variety of community settings such as Emergency Department, CPEP, mobile crisis, discharging from Inpatient Psychiatry Stay, Residential Treatment Facility, Crisis Residence/Respite, family, and internal referral from our MHOTRS-article 31), Outpatient 822 Substance Use Program (OASAS-article 32) or COMPHS.

· Conducts and participates in the intake process to obtain information relevant to formulating a psychosocial evaluation and initial treatment plan goals.

• Implements the treatment plan by providing psychotherapy interventions and/or concrete services such as complex care management, crisis intervention services, and referrals to internal and external agencies/providers.
• Utilizes evidence-based tools such as the PHQ9, GAD7, CSSRS, etc. to drive clinical interventions.
• Confers and consults with members of the treatment team including the psychiatrist, clinical supervisor, and other professional and technical personnel in implementing a multi-disciplinary approach to patient care.
• Plans for patient’s discharge, transfer and/or aftercare from the IOP program.
• Maintains contemporaneous documentation in the Electronic Health Records (EHR).
• Reports to the “State Central Registry of Child Abuse & Neglect” all cases of suspected child abuse or neglect.
• Reports to the “Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs” all reportable Incidents. Submits Incident Reports to the Program Manager for all internal and external incidents.
• Maintains consistent communication with the treatment team and other staff via use of technology (Bleuler email, EHR messages and alerts, Voicemails).
• Attends clinical supervision as scheduled.
• Participate in program development and in training programs.
• Follow the established clinic policies & procedures.
• Maintain appropriate professional standards.
• Other designated or related duties.

SKILLS:

· The Adolescent Clinician must be organized, have the ability to work independently and an elevated level of initiative.

· Ability to perform in a team approach and accomplish multiple assignments simultaneously.

· Must possess the ability to engage and affect change through a person-centered model.

· Demonstrate competence in providing trauma-related care, utilizing evidence-based approaches.

· Demonstrate initiative, flexibility, creativity, and a collaborative spirit.

· Demonstrate co-occurring competence to deliver services that are integrated and holistic.

· Previous intensive outpatient and/or inpatient experience preferred.

· Knowledge of milieu management, appropriate assessment and evaluation tools and tests, diagnoses, and interventions with patients.

· Experienced in working with mental illness in children, adolescents, and the adult population.

· Comfortable with computer technology and ability to learn applications needed for recordkeeping and generating reports, including Microsoft suites and EHR.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to work in-person at our clinic. A hybrid schedule is available.
• The Adolescent Clinician must have a Master’s Degree in Social Work or Mental Health Counseling with clinical experience.
• The Adolescent Clinician must be licensed in New York State, be in good standing and remain in continuous good standing with the state’s licensing board: LMSW, LMHC or LCSW.
• Bilingual in one or more of the following preferred: Spanish, Russian, Urdu/Hindi, Farsi, or Mandarin/Cantonese.
• The Adolescent Clinician must be dependable and able to work independently and understand the importance of maintaining confidentiality.
• Basic computer knowledge, the ability to document in an EHR, and experience providing telehealth services are required. Ability and willingness to work through digital tools.
• The Adolescent Clinician must be cleared by NYS Justice Center through fingerprinting for a Criminal History Records search.
• The Adolescent Clinician must be cleared by the Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs Staff Exclusion List (SEL) and the New York State Medicaid Exclusion List.
• The Adolescent Clinician must be cleared by the NYS Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) for instances of child abuse and/or neglect.
• The Adolescent Clinician must be legally eligible to work in the United States.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. The incumbent will be required to follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.

Pay: $60,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

• Do you have a Master’s Degree in Social Work or Mental Health Counseling with clinical experience?

License/Certification:

• LMSW, LMHC or LCSW. (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Forest Hills, NY 11375

Salary : $60,000 - $75,000