CLINICIAN (ORR)

MarSell Wellness Center • San Diego, CA

3d

About The Position

Provides strengths-based, trauma-informed therapy, targeted case management services, rehabilitative skill development, treatment coordination, collaboration with the treatment team or other providers, advocacy, and linkage to community resources as identified by client need, and collaboration with the other members of the client’s support network. Clinician work with the ORR contract to monitor and ensure the safety and overall well-being of clients and families served, make both formal and informal assessments of clients served to develop a permanency plan to ensure timely permanency is achieved.

Requirements

• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Master's degree in social work, clinical psychology, or related relevant behavioral science degree in which direct clinical experience is a program requirement
• Read, analyze and interpret business, professional, technical or governmental documents.
• Write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, customers and the public.
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with
• Proficiency in general office software including MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Outlook
• Registration required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) as an Associate Clinical Social Worker (ASW) or Associate Marriage Family Therapist (AMFT) or Associate Professional Counselor (APCC).
• Individual Malpractice Insurance

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual Preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct mental health services to agency-approved and contracted clientele.
• Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment.
• Documentation: Includes various assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, discharge summaries etc. in the electronic health record, releases of information, and other needed documents for individual clients. All documentation to be legible, timely, and expressed concisely and clearly.
• Client centered advocacy: Assess clients' needs and level of care, provide referrals and resources, and collateral involvement with families and other professionals and with the treatment team.
• Ensures that services provided to clients are culturally sensitive and, in the client’s, primary language; ensures that religious and ethnic issues pertinent to the client’s condition and plan of care is incorporated into the psychosocial assessment and treatment plan.
• Interview Children, and other involved persons to gather personal and social data relevant to assessing psychological (mental, behavioral, and emotional) and risk factors.
• Ensures physical, medical, educational, and therapeutic service needs are appropriately met.
• Ensures permanency plan and that every team member is working together to reach the permanency goal.
• Conducts family assessments to develop individual/family case plans and treatment plans based on the needs of the child and family.
• Ensures appropriate referrals are made for the youth and sponsor regarding mental health, medical, educational and placement stability.
• Ensures that the birth families’ needs are being met and that the children are visiting when appropriate.
• Ensures that all documentation in the UC portal is accurate and timely.
• Perform home assessments within the resource family home environment to ensure safety, stability, and positive transition of UC to placement no less than two times per month.
• Assists foster parents with in-home implementation of individualized treatment plans and provides crisis intervention services as needed.
• Through regular visits, ensures that all contracted services are being provided according to treatment/case plan in collaboration with the foster parent.
• Maintains regular communication with interdisciplinary team members and provides updates on the progress of the case.
• Completes appropriate documentation and ensures that case records are complete and in compliance.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401 (k) - immediate eligibility!
• 401 (k) company matching
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance (Company Paid)
• Voluntary Life Insurance (Employee Paid)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Wellness Day(s)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level