Licensed Clinical Supervisor, Family Support and Stabilization - Fitchburg

Gandara Center•Fitchburg, MA

33d•$62,000 - $66,000

About The Position

Family Support and Stabilization Supervisor provides supervision and support to the staff working within the different models of the Family Support and Stabilization services. FSS offers a structured, consistent, strength-based therapeutic interventions for families where children are either at risk for out-of-home placement or working the reunification process with the family, which purpose is treating the person mental health needs, or improve the caregiver ability to provide a healthy family functioning. This service is delivered by one or more members of a team consisting of professional and paraprofessional staff, offering a combination of psychotherapy and case management services.

Requirements

Must possess a Master’s Degree in Counseling, Social Work or other human service field.
Five years experience working with children/families in therapeutic/clinical setting preferred.
Experience in working with youth and families in a Therapeutic/Clinical setting.
Ability to work effectively with diverse populations and community agencies: school state agencies, juvenile court, etc.

Responsibilities

Ability to accurately diagnose and provide proper clinical formulation.
Displays sound judgement, and culturally sensitivity and humility.
Knowledge of the service delivery protocol, best practices and treatment standards as well as the ethical mandates relevant to the profession.
Awareness and sensitivity to contextual variables such as race, culture, gender, sexuality, disability, economics and lived experience, and how they impact the range of working relationships (e.g., worker-client, supervisor-worker-client, and peer-peer).
Familiarity with the major models of clinical supervision, in terms of philosophical assumptions and practical implications, and the ability to compare and contrast them with other models.
The capacity to articulate a personal model of supervision, drawn from existing models of supervision and from preferred styles of therapeutic practice.
The capacity to facilitate the co-evolving relationships between the worker-client and supervisor-worker-client relationships, identifying and addressing problems that arise.
Awareness of legal issues which may arise in clinical supervision, and commitment to ensuring that supervisees are also aware of these (e.g., duty to report, limits of confidentiality, etc.).
The capacity to provide a high standard of documenting clinical supervision sessions.
Advanced knowledge of the major issues experienced by clients (e.g., mental illness, alcoholism, drug abuse).
Promoting Knowledge acquisition and skills development through various professional development opportunities
Assisting personnel in transferring the skill and knowledge obtained in the classroom to their work in the filed
Inputting data into the data management system
Using data collection tools and forms
Reading and interpreting reports
Using data to improve performance