Clinical Intern

Wayside Youth & Family Support Network • Milford, MA

5d

About The Position

Wayside’s Community Based Services Site is accepting Graduate Level interns. The site provides a range of in-home, community-based services designed to protect, preserve, and reunify families within a wide geographical area. Community-based clinicians provide individual, couples and family therapy. Treatment is generally intensive in nature and delivered using a strengths-based, resiliency-focused philosophy. Clinicians work with clients referred from the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Mental Health and a variety of insurance companies to address such issues as mental health symptom management, family systems dynamics, behavior management, substance abuse, budgeting, household management, parent education and more. Clinicians provide comprehensive assessments and goal formulation, therapeutic intervention, case management, advocacy and concrete services such as transportation to appointments, assistance with accessing services, and referrals. Interns are fully integrated into the team and will participate in agency-wide initiatives such as Motivational Interviewing, Courageous Conversations and ARC as well as site specific learning including monthly case presentation and diagnosis review. This is an excellent internship for confident self-starters who will receive ample support from a strong clinical team and will also function autonomously in the community. Clinical and/or academic exposure to family work is recommended. Flexibility is required.

Requirements

• 3 days a week, one of which must be Tuesday. Minimum 24 hours.
• Availability to see families at least two evenings per week.
• Second/final-year interns only.
• Intern must have strong communication skills both written and verbal.
• Intern must have strong time management skills.
• Intern must be comfortable in a variety of settings including office, home visits and community meetings.
• Driving in the community is a requirement of this position; please ensure you have a valid driver's license and access to a reliable vehicle.
• School must allow intern to transport clients. We are not a taxi service, but sometimes there is clinical need to transport.

Nice To Haves

• Language skills: Spanish, Portuguese, and ASL desirable, not required.
• Clinical and/or academic exposure to family work is recommended.
• Flexibility is required.

Responsibilities

• Perform intakes
• Assessments
• Treatment plans
• Follow up care
• On-going treatment
• Weekly attendance and participation in staff meeting and intern seminar

Benefits

• Wayside offers a learning environment – free trainings, CEUs, and individual/group supervision.
• We provide a teamwork atmosphere and career development support – a great place to grow your career!!!
• Final year grad students are eligible for a stipend!
• Travel reimbursement: Yes
• Stipends: $5,000.00/year for final year MA students providing in-home services with an additional $1,000.00 for language differential.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees