Master of Social Work Internship

At St. Vincent Family Services, it is our job to help families build bright futures.

Make it your job too!

SUMMARY

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. 

PRIMARY DUTIES AND 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. 

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE 

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

SKILLS & ABILITY

• 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.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, talk and listen.
• The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The noise level in the work environment is typically moderate but is subject to loud verbal or displayed outbursts from potentially distressed children seeking treatment.
• The building temperature may vary during each season and the work environment may be unseasonably cold or warm during the year.
• The conditions in client home environments may be considered dirty or cluttered. The temperatures or lighting in homes may be unpredictable.  
• Ability to work some evening hours due to the service delivery and administrative needs of SVFS clients and families.

ADA

The above statements cover what are believed to be the principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some associates assigned to the job to perform different combinations of duties.