Clinician - Children's MH Support & Stabilization Services

CLINICIAN

Children's Mental Health

Support & Stabilization Services

Mobile positions in communities surrounding the Bedford, MA area

Starting at $65,208K annually

Higher rates for independent licensure or if bilingual

Sign-on Bonus: $2500

Support & Stabilization Clinicians work as a team with Outreach Workers and sometimes a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) to support youth whose families are involved with The Department of Children and Families. Clinicians assess and manage risk, complete clinical assessments, oversee treatment planning, caregiver coaching, skill building, engage in intensive-family therapy, and provide case management as needed.

Who You Are:

Has earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work, Clinical Psychology or Education with a Clinical Concentration (or related field) and possesses LCSW, LICSW, LMHC, or Psychologist licensure. Prior experience working with youth with emotional and behavioral health disturbances and their families. Valid MA driver’s license and reliable transportation required. Must have strong documentation and clinical writing skills. Bilingual/bicultural, experience working with youth with behavioral challenges, lived experience, supervisory experience, and knowledge of EBP models preferred.

What You Will Do:

• Engage in a comprehensive and on-going assessment process. Initial assessments will include 5 Protective Factors Survey (assessing parental resilience, knowledge of parenting and child development, social connections, support in times of need, and social and emotional competence of children), as well as a comprehensive assessment to assess functioning and needs across multiple domains. This may also include a specialized assessment to address the unique needs of individuals with co-occurring substance use or other co-occurring complex conditions.

• Develop a treatment plan with the youth and family with goals that are clearly and measurably defined, individualized and reflect and target the needs identified in the comprehensive assessment.

• Develop structured and consistent strengths-based therapeutic relationship with the youth and family for the purpose of treating the identified behavioral health needs, including improving the family’s ability to provide effective support for the youth to promote healthy functioning within the family.

• Implement home-based individual therapy interventions that are evidence based or grounded in promising practices and utilize techniques that have proven effective for the presenting issues such as but not limited to: Motivational Interviewing, trauma informed CBT, DBT, Collaborative Problem-Solving, Multi-Systemic Therapy, Attachment Regulation Competency, Solution Focused Therapy. Interventions may also include treatment approaches modified to respond to the unique capabilities of individuals with co-occurring disorders or complex diagnoses.

• Provide ongoing safety assessment, planning and on-call crisis support that includes on call telephonic support, 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

• Provide weekly email updates to DCF related to service delivery

• Coordinate services, ensuring they are integrated and clinically coherent across all treatment providers and supports to the youth. This includes coordinating continuity of approaches across providers, school, state agencies, and other supports.

• Conduct collateral contact with third parties on behalf of the youth and family, with permission. These can occur through face-to-face meetings, by phone, email, or other technology and/direct observation with school staff, pediatricians, or other formal or informal services and supports to the youth and their family.

• Facilitates Treatment Planning/Review meetings as assigned.

• Support the caregiver and the youth in developing strategies for self-care, identifying respite care formal and informal respite care providers and accessing respite care.

• Adheres to Edinburg Center policies and procedures

• Complies with all state and local licensing/ certification requirements and regulations

• Participates in daily Support and Stabilization team meetings, and departmental staff meetings and trainings as required.

• Engages in weekly supervision.

• Keeps abreast of and presents relevant current literature.

• Consults with other professionals regarding their expertise.

• Performs other job duties as required and consistent with the nature of the job.

Who We Are:

A dedicated team of professionals who have chosen to join an organization with a forty year history of serving people with mental illness, developmental disabilities, brain injury and autism in the community. When we’re not at work, we love to hike, bike, craft, read, shop and sing opera, among many other things! Our staff of 350 have range of interests and skills and we know you do too! We know that The Edinburg Center will mean as much to you as it does to us!

At work, we are psychiatrists, social workers, clinicians, nurses, behavior specialists, peer specialists, board certified behavior analysts, direct service staff and employment specialists.

What We Offer:

We offer an excellent benefits package for both full and part-time staff, including health and dental (must work a minimum of 30 hours) vision, life, short- and long-term disability insurance as well as a 401(k)-retirement savings plan. Paid time off benefits include vacation, personal, sick and holidays. To support ongoing professional development, we offer tuition reimbursement, conference, seminar, certification, and specialized training funding, as well as free clinical supervision for licensure.

We think the best benefit we offer is the chance to learn from each other and we hope you will be willing to teach us as well.

Be YOU! We are committed to providing a welcoming, inclusive, and diverse environment for our employees and the people we serve. Persons from diverse backgrounds including women, communities of color, the LGBTQ community and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

The Edinburg Center, Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer