Behavioral Health Clinician

What You’ll Be Doing

You will provide individual counseling to program youth and family counseling to support permanency goals. The Residential Services Clinician will complete an initial assessment and treatment plan and continue to develop, and implement treatment plans, as required, partnering with staff, clients, and their families, and provide transition and discharge planning as appropriate.

Hybrid Role, 20% Remote Work.

Your Main Priorities

While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:

• Maintain caseload assigned.
• Participate in interviewing youth for program admission, disposition, and intake.
• Make appropriate referrals for specialized evaluations and treatment (i.e., psychiatric evaluation, medical evaluation, substance abuse and assessment, etc.).
• Make clinical recommendations for appropriate levels of care in order to refer to various points in continuum care.
• Provide clinical consultation and training for all Residential Services program staff.
• Participate in treatment team meetings with key stakeholders and DCYF.
• Collaborate with program staff, to complete psycho-educational groups within our Residential Services programs.
• Complete discharge and transition plan with aftercare needs in mind.
  
  

Skills & Abilities

• Master’s degree in social work or related field required.
• Must be license eligible (LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, LICSW, etc.), licensure preferred.
• Minimum 6 months’ clinical experience required, preferably with children and/or adolescents.
• Strong organizational, critical thinking and time-management skills.
• Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
• Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.
• Bilingual in Spanish strongly preferred.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, proof of auto insurance and car registration.
• Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.
• The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.
  
  

Travel Requirements

Site location: Newport

Statewide travel required.

Physical Requirements

Direct Service Staff:

This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

Requirements

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ communities, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.
  
  

Affirmative Action

Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.