Clinical Intern

Wayside Youth & Family Support Network • Framingham, MA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Wayside Metro West Community Services offers clinical internship opportunities for second- or final-year master's-level students. The program supports people with serious emotional disturbances through community-based services, including Intensive Care Coordination, Mobile Crisis Intervention, In-Home Therapy, Family Support and Stabilization, Therapeutic Mentoring, Youth Support, and Outpatient therapy. Care uses Wraparound, Motivational Interviewing, and strength-based models, providing intensive, family-centered, solution-focused treatment in offices, homes, and other community settings. Interns work with staff and independently with families facing multiple stressors. The placement offers supervision by LICSWs, LMHCs, or LMFTs, pre-service orientation, and travel reimbursement. Final-year graduate students may receive a stipend.

Requirements

• Be a second- or final-year master's-level intern.
• Be available at least 20 hours per week and able to work two evenings per week.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Be comfortable working in office, home-visit, and community-meeting settings.
• Have a valid driver's license and access to a reliable vehicle; driving in the community is required.
• Complete a CORI check and Wayside's pre-service orientation.

Nice To Haves

• Background in health and human services or a related field.
• Spanish, Portuguese, or Haitian Creole language skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform intakes, assessments, treatment plans or individual care plans, follow-up care, and ongoing treatment.
• Attend and participate in weekly staff meetings and intern seminars.
• Coordinate care for families and individuals, including locating services and resources and collaborating with other systems and providers.
• Work with families in office, home, and community settings.

Benefits

• Learning environment with free trainings, CEUs, and individual and group supervision.
• Teamwork atmosphere and career development support.
• Travel reimbursement.
• $5,000 per year stipend for final-year MA students, with an additional $1,000 language differential.

What This Job Offers

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