10-Month School-Based Clinician

Wheeler•Bristol, CT

19h•Onsite

About The Position

The Bristol School-Based Integrated Health Care Clinician provides clinical and case management services to children in a school-based setting. The clinician builds positive working relationships with coworkers, clients, and external stakeholders and collaborates with teachers, administrators, and parents to provide high-quality mental health services to students. The position provides leadership, motivation, and support to staff; manages client referral, admission, and discharge processes; and helps ensure the integrity of the program model. This is a 10-month, full-time position serving Bristol Public School in Bristol, Connecticut.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, Social Work, or Counseling, or a doctoral degree in Psychology.
Must hold, or be eligible for, one of the following Connecticut credentials: LMSW, LCSW, LMFTA, LMFT, LPCA, LPC, or licensed or license-eligible Psychologist. Applicants may apply before receiving the credential.
Knowledge of psychopathology and individual, group, and family psychotherapy modalities.
Knowledge of psychotropic medications.
Ability to triage clinical emergencies, including suicide risk and danger to others.
Knowledge of internal and external levels of care, referral processes, and community resources.
Ability to communicate and collaborate with clients, families, providers, school personnel, and multidisciplinary teams.
Ability to provide clinical leadership, staff guidance, and crisis support.
Ability to follow documentation, confidentiality, mandated reporting, regulatory, and accreditation requirements.

Responsibilities

Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to address clients’ behavioral, primary, and dental health needs, including consulting with primary care providers, supporting medical treatment compliance, and making referrals.
Conduct program-specific screening and evaluation and formulate diagnoses in accordance with the DSM.
Develop and document individualized, measurable clinical formulations and treatment plans in collaboration with clients, families, and others as appropriate.
Apply knowledge of psychopathology and individual, group, and family psychotherapy; triage clinical emergencies, including suicide risk and danger to others.
Use evidence-based psychotherapy practices where appropriate and provide or refer clients to focused, time-limited group therapy when indicated.
Maintain at least one group during the school year and use evidence-based practices to engage clients in trauma-focused, model-specific treatment.
Complete clinical documentation promptly and in accordance with agency policy.
Identify appropriate internal and external levels of care, resources, and referral pathways, and make timely referrals for client needs.
Communicate at least monthly with clients, families, and internal and external providers; attend required meetings and multidisciplinary treatment-planning meetings.
Provide up to one hour per week of consultation to the designated school.
Meet direct-service productivity goals and follow program and agency standards, goals, outcome measures, and data-collection and reporting protocols.
Attend scheduled supervision prepared, seek additional consultation as needed, and follow supervisory directives.
Provide clinical leadership in implementing and sustaining evidence-based and best-practice prevention, intervention, and treatment models.
Provide guidance and crisis support to staff.
Work with a manager or designee to develop, monitor, and analyze clinical and program performance and outcomes, and to develop and monitor quality-improvement goals.
Collaborate with community providers to support clients and families and promote positive system development.
Report child abuse or neglect as mandated, follow confidentiality guidelines, and help ensure compliance with licensing, regulatory, and accreditation standards.
Develop understanding of the history, traditions, values, family systems, and artistic expression of groups served, and use culturally informed approaches, skills, and techniques.