Clinician - Children's Congregate Care

Seven Hills Foundation • Worcester, MA

90d • $60,000 - $65,000

About The Position

The Behavioral Health (BH) Clinician–I will be responsible for providing direct clinical care to children, adolescents and their families, as appropriate to the program in which the clinician works. The clinician will ensure that the highest-quality services are provided in compliance with performance specifications, agency policies and procedures, and regulating entities. Clinicians should provide services in keeping with best practices, evidence-based knowledge, and the ethics of their educational discipline. The clinician should attend to risk issues, documentation of care, timeliness of documentation, professionalism, productivity, and administrative issues related to providing clinical care. Compensation: $60K - $65K, Yr. Bonus: $5,000 (paid quarterly over 18 months)

Requirements

• Developing proficiency in individual/youth and family clinical care, as well as mental health, educational, developmental care, child welfare, and juvenile justice systems.
• Master’s degree in Social Work, Family Therapy, or Counseling.
• Proof of a valid driver’s license, acceptable driving record, and reliable personal transportation.
• Demonstrated and/or developing competency with establishing a therapeutic rapport with clients.
• Developing proficiency in providing direct psychotherapeutic clinical care, including risk assessment, safety planning, general comprehensive assessment, treatment planning, service delivery, case management, and discharge/after-care planning.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion, confidentiality, collaboration, ethics, appropriate boundaries and good judgment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, organization skills, timeliness, and ability to work effectively with others.
• Active CANS certification, required.

Responsibilities

• Provide services that are time-effective, defined episodes of care that focus on the restoration, enhancement, and/or maintenance of a client’s optimal level of functioning, and the alleviation or amelioration of significant and debilitating symptoms impacting at least one area of the client’s life domains.
• Develop a clear treatment focus, measurable outcomes, and a discharge plan including the identification of realistic discharge criteria as part of the initial assessment and treatment planning process.
• Provide the highest-quality clinical care to clients in keeping with best-practice, agency standards, and the directives of the clinical position.
• Practice within the ethical guidelines of discipline; maintain privacy and HIPAA standards.
• Participate in the provision of 24-hour emergency service coverage for client caseload as required by the particular program.
• Demonstrate competency, reliability, honesty, integrity, respectfulness, continued learning, positivity, mutual support, effective collaboration, active listening, and attention to the responsibilities of the job.
• Document all clinical care in agency Electronic Health Record and in any other required data entry system, in keeping with established timeframes, best practices, and through established clinical forms/documents.
• Respond to Quality Management and Utilization Review protocols and clinical alerts, and participate in regular review of clinical charts.
• Attend and participate in a variety of meetings and trainings including supervision, clinic team, program team meetings, clinical reviews, utilization review, trainings, and other staff meetings.
• Engage in ongoing learning and development of clinical skills and professional growth through trainings, supervision, and ongoing clinical practice.
• Utilize and respond accordingly to the administrative and financial systems related to clinical care including referral, office administrative, billing, and your supervisor.

Benefits

• $5,000 bonus paid quarterly over 18 months

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees