School Clinician

Justice Resource Institute • Sudbury, MA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Victor School is a Massachusetts Approved Private Special Education Day School Program serving students between 6th - 12th grade. Located in Sudbury, MA the school serves students with average to superior cognitive abilities with social emotional disabilities. Our student’s learning is often complicated by social, emotional, or specific learning challenges. The Victor School is fully approved by DESE. The Victor School team works closely and collaboratively with families, students, and school systems to provide each student with challenging, college preparatory academics in a safe, nurturing environment. Our school serves students between 6th - 12th grade within a 11 month school year.

Requirements

• Must be 21 years or older.
• Master’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling or related field from an accredited college or university.
• Ability to sit for clinical licensure required.
• Understanding of the range of presentations, interventions and treatment required by adolescents with emotional disabilities, psychiatric symptoms, histories of traumas, and learning challenges is essential.
• Candidates should be comfortable working in a fast paced, collaborative, creative, and flexible environment.
• Candidates must have strong communication, organizational, and written skills for interacting with students, staff, professionals, families, communities and collaterals at large.
• Candidates must be able to demonstrate a history of being flexible, creative and collaborative in a fast paced environment.
• Background and driving record checks will be performed.

Nice To Haves

• Clinical licensure (LICSW, LCSW, LMHC) preferred.
• Experience working with adolescents with mental health needs, and with Autism preferred.
• Experience working with family therapy and collaborating with families and outpatient teams for treatment planning preferred.
• Knowledge of IEP implementation, special education rights preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work with DBT, CBT, CPS (Ross Greene) and Solution Based Therapies preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with an Academic Adviser and full Clinical team.
• Ensure students are moving towards the goals in the IEP's.
• Complete daily check-ins with students, family meetings and coordination with collaterals, conducting groups and clubs, and case management while assisting students in overcoming obstacles to being successful in school.
• Manage a caseload of 10 -12 students to help them discover what makes them feel competent and valued by working with them to develop life skills.
• Provide physical interventions and verbal de-escalations to provide the safest therapeutic atmosphere for our students!

Benefits

• $2,000 bilingual bonus to new hires who speak a second language fluently, other than English, and will use it to serve our clients!
• Reimbursement is available for employees to cover the registration costs and annual fees for any professional license required for work such as LMHC, LCSW, LICSW, RN and more!
• Access to our excellent Blue Cross medical and Delta Dental benefits.
• Retirement benefits including 401K matched up to $800 a year and pension after 5 years of employment.
• Professional development opportunities such as tuition reimbursement up to almost $4000 per year and discounted tuition rates to select partnership colleges and universities!
• Wellness benefits including access to employee engagement groups, self-care resources, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Generous paid time off up to 19 days for full time employees in your first year and much more!

What This Job Offers

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