Master of Social Work Internship

ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES•Columbus, OH

About The Position

At St. Vincent Family Services, it is our job to help families build bright futures. Make it your job too! Students will receive training, shadowing, resources and experiences to gain transferable skills applicable to any social work setting and gain integrative skills to gain confidence in providing therapy to youth and families.

Requirements

Internship candidates must meet the minimum requirements as set forth by their college program, the Ohio Department of Mental Health, and the Ohio CSWMFT Board
Ability to maintain high degree of empathy and compassion in meeting the needs of agency clients and client families.
Ability to foster open, honest and candid communication.
Ability to maintain flexibility in managing change.
Ability to successfully operate where ethical decision will be required and utilize supervision appropriately.
Ability to create and maintain highest levels of confidentiality when dealing with client information, SVFS proprietary information and sensitive situations.

Responsibilities

Contributes to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for our clients, colleagues and community partners from diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Learn and integrates principles of Trauma Informed Care in all aspects of work.
Is sensitive to the children’s culture and socioeconomic characteristics that delivers the best possible care to the youth and families served.
Explore therapeutic interventions from provided resources and present recommendations to supervisor appropriate for one of the clients the student has been shadowing and/or conducting sessions based on treatment goal.
Co-facilitate then individually facilitate youth and family sessions as internship and student comfort progresses, utilizing interventions identified by the student.
Option to co-facilitate one or more group therapy sessions.
Practice clinical documentation skills; learn and practice writing progress notes and developing treatment plans and discharge planning documentation.
Learn utilization of assessment tools and facilitate the use of some assessment tools as appropriate: Youth Outcomes Questionnaire, Child Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS), Vanderbilt, Protective Factors Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory, The Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS), Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED).
Present a client’s case to a clinical review team.
Conduct appropriate transition/termination activities with clients that the student routinely co-facilitates sessions for at the end of the student’s internship period.