Clinician ITTC - Girls Unit

WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED•Quaker Hill, CT

1d•$60,000 - $92,406

About The Position

Ensure residents emotional, medical, social, legal, developmental, and educational needs are being met through direct services and supervisory responsibility for all case management tasks. Provide trauma-informed, evidence-based individual, group, and family therapy following Intensive Transitional Treatment Centers’s (ITTC) therapeutic models such as, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, as well as discharge planning coordination to the residents of the (ITTC). Evening hours will be required at a minimum of 1 night per week to meet family’s needs.

Requirements

Master’s Level Clinician with an Associate (LMSW, LMFT-A or LPC-A), Independent (LCSW, LMFT, LPC) license or license eligible.

Nice To Haves

Licensed/Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor Certification (LADC/CADC) or experience with drug and alcohol rehabilitation preferred.

Responsibilities

Assist, when available, with intake and admission procedures. Responsible for all admissions information and paperwork.
Complete a clinical interview with a newly assigned child within 24 business hours of admission, including completion of appropriate standardized assessments.
Provide assessment and advocacy, as needed, to minimize disruption in child’s education. (E.g. participate in Planning and Placement Team (PPT) meetings, assist in registering for school, etc.)
Responsible for the development of resident treatment plans, including input from the youth, their family and other community linkages, the area office social worker and clinical team, and anyone else who may be helpful in planning the treatment for this youth.
In conjunction with DCF and other ITTC staff, monitor youth treatment plan progress, establish recommendations for continued treatment needs and determine a discharge plan that will aide in a successful transition following their placement in an ITTC.
Complete psychosocial assessments as ordered by DCF, including gathering all information previously completed. Compile all information into a comprehensive final document.
Maintain the resident’s clinical file, including detailed contact and progress notes.
Provide clinically relevant information and advocate, as needed, in treatment meetings
Conduct individual, family, and group therapy, following ITTC’s therapeutic models such as, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, and focuses on improving social, communication, adaptive and emotional regulation skills. While providing individualized intervention for specific skill acquisition that will enable the youth to achieve or maintain the most realistic and highest level of independent functioning.
Provide crisis management, assess, and respond to risk such as self-harm, suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation and domestic minor sex trafficking. when needed.
Provide services and support to clients in other WCS programs as assigned by the Clinical Director.
Plan and participate in activities designed to meet resident’s zone of proximal development.
Complete discharge summaries for each resident.
Maintain an aftercare caseload and perform functions as outlined in the procedures.
Serve as a member of the ITTC treatment team, participating in staff training, attending periodic workshops and ongoing professional development.
Build developmental relationships with residents of ITTC, providing a positive role model for all students and staff at Waterford Country School.
Serve, on a rotating schedule, as “Administrator On-Call”, being available to the Shift Supervisor on a 24-hour basis for support, assistance, and consultation.
Establish and maintain a positive involvement with other human service agencies and a professional image in the community.
Respond in accordance with agency procedures to situations which require physical and/or emotional intervention with the residents.
Maintain knowledge of and follow Agency policies and procedures as contained in the WCS Personnel Handbook, WCS Procedure Manual, and departmental manuals.
Function as a positive role model for all residents and staff at the Waterford Country School.
Maintain an awareness of and sensitivity to the cultural and socioeconomic differences present among the service population and fellow staff members of WCS, ensuring that cultural needs are respected and supported through the delivery of services and the development and implementation of agency programs and policies in a manner that is free from discrimination and bias relating to race, ethnicity, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, status as a victim of domestic violence or religious beliefs.
Practice within agency models (e.g. CARE, TCI,), supporting the therapeutic milieu at Waterford Country School for students, Agency staff, volunteers and stakeholders.
Maintain access to and compliance with ethical professional standards of the discipline in which credentialed.
Other duties as assigned by the Program Director.
Limited Telework Capability Limited ability to work remotely in necessary circumstances as approved by the Program Director, or in the event of a declared weather or other emergency. Telework should be performed in accordance with the Remote Work Policy in the WCS Personnel Handbook.
THIS JOB DESCRIPTION SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED AS ALL-INCLUSIVE. IT IS INTENDED TO IDENTIFY THE MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND REQUIREMENTS OF THIS JOB. THE INCUMBENT MAY BE REQUIRED TO PERFORM JOB-RELATED TASKS OTHER THAN THOSE STATED IN THIS DESCRIPTION.