FIT Senior Clinician | Family-based Intensive Treatment

Our Open • Chelsea, MA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is bonus eligible! When you join The Home for Little Wanderers, you join a team of professionals dedicated to creating better, brighter futures for kids. For over 200 years, The Home for Little Wanderers has helped build stable lives and hopeful tomorrows for vulnerable children and their families. Our 25+ community-based and residential programs serve thousands of at-risk youths from birth to age 26. Many of these children have experienced abuse, neglect, trauma, or a disrupted family life. As the oldest child welfare agency in America, we provide them with safe surroundings, permanent loving relationships, and a secure path toward a better, brighter future.

About the Program
At The Home, we believe strong families are the backbone of strong communities. Our Community Service Agencies (CSAs) provide individualized, family-driven coordination of care to meet the complex needs of children and families who are involved in child and family-serving systems and may be experiencing emotional, behavioral, safety or mental health difficulties. Each of our CSAs now offer a Family-Based Intensive Treatment (FIT) service which provides short-term, flexible, hands-on support at home, helping families navigate tough times, strengthen connections and keep kids in their communities. The FIT service is designed for MassHealth youth under 21 with serious emotional challenges. It is delivered by a specialized team of clinicians, paraprofessionals, family partners and includes access to prescribers and behavioral therapists.

About the Role
Under the direction of the Senior Director, the FIT Senior Clinician oversees the delivery of Family-Based Intensive Treatment (FIT) services under CBHI, providing clinical supervision, guidance, and support to FIT clinicians and staff. This role ensures high-quality, evidence-based care for youth services to children under the age of 21 with a Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED), SUD, ASD, IDD and their families under the CBHI framework.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in social work, mental health, or related discipline
• Licensure in clinical field (LICSW, LCSW, LMHC LMFT, LADC 1)
• Skilled in guiding staff to support families navigating child- and family-serving systems, with expertise in advocacy for families involved in behavioral health services
• Strong organizational, communication, and leadership skills
• Must maintain certification in the Massachusetts CANS
• Computer literate and able to quickly learn new software applications.
• Driving required or must have access to own mode of transportation
• If transporting clients, then a valid driver’s license and satisfactory driving record required

Nice To Haves

• Experience with supervising others preferred
• Preferably knowledgeable about the communities we serve
• Fluency in a second language (eg. Spanish, Haitian Creole) is a plus
• Strong clinical formulation and diagnostic skills preferred
• Experience with CBHI services preferred but not required
• Knowledge of trauma-informed care and evidence-based practices for intensive family therapy

Responsibilities

• Complete review of FIT records in accordance with CBHI specifications
• Oversee FIT specific referrals and make assignments
• Monitor documentation compliance and service delivery outcomes
• Review and approve clinical assessments and treatment plans to ensure accuracy, quality, and alignment with CBHI and agency standards.
• Facilitate individual, dyad, and group supervision, weekly supervision, and regular staff meetings and training as required.
• Provide clinical supervision, coaching, and mentoring to FIT clinicians and staff
• Participate in staffing meetings, case consultations, and interdisciplinary team discussions
• Support with crisis intervention and stabilization efforts as needed
• Carry a caseload of 1-3 clients
• Facilitate daily “Wrap Rounds”
• Deliver intensive family therapy to youth and family in their home or chosen community-based setting
• Develop and implement treatment plans to meet the individual needs of the youth and family
• Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments inclusive of the CANS and CRAFFT
• Maintains timely and accurate documentation in the program’s eHR per agency, MCE, and CBHI guidelines
• Maintains ongoing communication with families, collaborates with CBHI services, schools, and providers, and meets with assigned youth and families 3–5 times weekly to ensure coordinated care.
• Convenes monthly meetings with youth, family, providers, clinicians, and school representatives
• Provide crisis stabilization and safety planning for at-risk youth and families.
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Generous time off including up to 15 days per year for new full-time employees, plus 11 holidays, and 5 sick days
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance available
• Extensive training to new staff
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $3,000 per fiscal year
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with employer match
• Employer paid Long-term and Short-term Disability Insurance, plus Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• And more!

What This Job Offers

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