Licensed Clinician - CDSA

County of Mecklenburg, NC•Charlotte, NC

7d•$63,080 - $82,793

About The Position

The Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Program is a grant funded program supporting children birth-three, providing evidence-based mental health services in the home or childcare setting to support families with a variety of concerns. We provide assessment and then 10-16 sessions of treatment (more if Child Parent Psychotherapy) to address a variety of concerns. Concerns including feeling overwhelmed with being a new parent, dealing with ongoing significant stress (divorce, domestic violence), helping support build a strong relationship with your child, managing behaviors, and address traumatic events such as the loss of a loved one or community violence. New graduates will be considered based on ability to obtain associate level license in their field of practice. This would be an ideal opportunity for a candidate looking for clinical hours towards LCSWA, LMHCA, or LPA. Supervision will be provided. This position provides licensed clinical activities to a new grant-funded team to provide infant and early childhood mental health services to children under three years old and their families. This position, under minimal supervision, may be responsible for performing diagnosis, assessment, and evaluation, and psychological testing; providing immediate clinical trauma response and intervention, providing direct counseling/therapy; performing treatment planning; conducting home visits; providing referrals, conducting training and preparing progress reports.

Requirements

Minimum of two years of experience providing clinical services in the area assigned.
Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, or a related human services field.
Depending on the area of assignment NC Professional Licensure is required in one of the following areas: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS), Licensed Psychological Associate (LPA), or Licensed Clinical Mental Health Clinician (LCMHC)
Requires a valid North Carolina or South Carolina Driver's License
Requires County Driving Privileges
Annual Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) check required
Knowledge of Ethical standards of practice
Knowledge of Typical and Atypical human development
Knowledge of Family dynamics
Knowledge of Family dysfunction
Knowledge of Adult and child psychiatric disorders
Knowledge of Child-caregiver attachment issues
Knowledge of Individual and parent-child treatment modalities
Knowledge of Community resources
Knowledge of Multidisciplinary approach to assessment and treatment
Skills Assessing typical and atypical human development, psychiatric disorders, family dynamics, family dysfunction, and child-caregiver attachment issues
Skills Implementing treatments for various individual and parent-child modalities
Skills Assessing community resources
Skills Integrating client social emotional needs into treatment plans
Skills Using a computer and related software applications
Skills Providing customer service
Abilities Care Management: Having the knowledge and skills to secure relevant patient care data and identify key issues and relationships in the management of patient care; understanding the relationships among assessments, interventions, and patient responses; skilled in documentation of assessments and adjusting physical and cognitive prescriptions as needed
Abilities Collaboration: Working effectively and cooperatively with others; establishing and maintaining good working relationships
Abilities Communication: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the information provided
Abilities Patient Education/Health Promotion: Supporting, explaining, and instructing patient and patient’s family (significant other, care giver, etc.) in understanding the clinical procedures and equipment used to facilitate optimum health status; promoting the lifestyle changes required of the patient and the patient’s family to achieve optimum health status
Proficient in various computer applications including Microsoft Office Suite

Nice To Haves

Experience providing clinical mental health services to families and young children three years old and younger.

Responsibilities

Provide clinical treatment or assessments for clients (individuals, children, and/or families), which includes: determining appropriate intervention/therapies; frequency of interventions; ongoing assessment of progress and needs; and modifying therapeutic plans as required.
Document clinical treatments and evaluations, which includes: synthesizing information gathered by observation, interviews, and record reviews; records reviews and writes summary-style reports; and/or, performing other related activities.
Conduct biopsychosocial and social emotional evaluations, developmental assessments, and psychological testing on clients as appropriate to program assignment.
Participate in multidisciplinary staffing’s regarding clients before and after evaluations, which includes: gathering and synthesizing extensive information to make decisions with the evaluation team regarding evaluation tools and assessment methods; participating in client’s level of overall functioning, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations; and/or, performing other related activities.
Facilitate case consultations with other staff to address the client’s social emotional issues and/or problems.
Participate in revising service plans and interprets evaluation results for clients and/or caregivers.
Collect program evaluation data.
Enter and access clinical data in the electronic data base system.
Correspond and collaborate with interested/involved collaterals, community resources and service providers.
May be required to staff shelters in the event of a disaster.