Clinical Intern

Wayside Youth & Family Support Network • Waltham, MA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Wayside's Waltham Community Based Services Site is accepting Graduate Level interns. We provide 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, ARC, and Courageous Conversations. 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. Final year interns may have the opportunity to carry one or two outpatient cases at the Waltham site. Opportunities include co-facilitating Department of Mental Health activity-based groups for youth.

Requirements

• Final year graduate students preferred, though will consider strong first year students with relevant experience.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Reliable car.
• Permission from school to transport clients.
• CORI Check required.

Nice To Haves

• Clinical and/or academic exposure to family work is recommended.
• Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole and Mandarin speaking interns.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual, couples and family therapy.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments and goal formulation.
• Provide therapeutic intervention.
• Perform case management.
• Offer advocacy and concrete services such as transportation to appointments, assistance with accessing services, and referrals.
• Participate in agency-wide initiatives such as Motivational Interviewing, ARC, and Courageous Conversations.
• Carry one or two outpatient cases at the Waltham site (for final year interns).
• Co-facilitate Department of Mental Health activity-based groups for youth.

Benefits

• Free trainings
• CEUs
• Individual/group supervision
• Teamwork atmosphere
• Career development support
• Stipend ($5,000.00/year for final year MA students with an additional $1,000.00 for language differential)
• Travel Reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern