Home Based Clinician -Fee for Service

The Agency: Founded in 1873, Bridges Homeward has evolved over time into a group of dynamic, highly dedicated, mission driven professionals meeting the current needs of the Greater Boston community. Bridges Homeward is committed to strengthening and advocating for diversity, equity and inclusion, for our staff and those we serve. Bridges Homeward, and our staff are dedicated as individuals and as a community, to continually seek to advance racial equity initiatives to address long-standing systemic racial biases and discrimination in our society. Our goal for every person we work with is for them to find permanency; a healthy, nurturing relationship with an adult that they can count on for the rest of their life. Sometimes, permanency in our work means making sure a child can remain with their biological family; sometimes it means ensuring someone with a developmental disability can live with family instead of having to move to an institutional setting; sometimes it means finding a child in foster care a forever family and for other youth it means having a safe, secure parenting relationship with a supportive adult.

PURPOSE & SCOPE: The clinician provides individual and family therapy to clients on a fee for service basis, referred to by the Department of Children and Families

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide individual and family therapy to families involved with DCF with a goal of supporting and stabilizing the family and avoiding out of home placement or working towards reunification
• Completes clinical and safety assessments and evaluates appropriate therapeutic approach in collaboration with supervisor
• Completes timely and accurate documentation in compliance with DCF and Bridges Homeward.
• Updates DCF Team on a weekly basis to ensure collaboration in working towards treatment goals
• Utilizes a variety of therapy modalities as appropriate for individuals and families we are serving
• Utilizes the Permanency Best Practice Framework designed to have more positive outcomes and support systems for youth involved in the child welfare system.
• Provide clinical leadership and support to the team in collaboration with the Chief Program Officer
• Maintain communication with the Chief Program Officer about team functioning and training needs
• Monitor compliance with documentation guidelines and program specifications
• Provide supervision/training on assessment, safety plan, progress note documentation and treatment modalities for staff providing individual and family therapy
• Provide safety planning and crisis intervention support if it is needed
• Complete required documentation in the electronic health record

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Master's Degree in Psychology, Counseling, Social Work, Family Therapy or a related field
• License required (LMHC, LICSW, LMFT)
• 5 years of experience working with children, youth and families with mental health challenges
• Experience working in child welfare preferred
• Experience working with diverse population
• Experience providing supervision
• Experience providing trauma-informed interventions
• Familiarity with electronic health records
• Good organizational skills, in addition to effective verbal, written and computer skills

Other requirements:

• Valid driver's license and properly insured vehicle.

Salary : $35 - $42