Mental Health Clinician (LCSW or LPC)

Position Title: Clinician

Department: Calabrese Youth Center

Reporting Function: Director of CYC

Supervisory Functions: None

• Supervise treatment planning and progress towards treatment goals for the children/youth in the RCCF program.

• Provide guidance and technical assistance to the Program Manager and Residential Counselors regarding treatment issues and interventions.

• Collaborate with the RCCF BCBA, RBTs, and Psychiatrist and treatment planning team for the children/youth in the RCCF including other entities such as Day Treatment.

• Assist in quality assurance procedures and policy development to ensure compliance with regulatory agencies and accrediting bodies.

• Coordinate staff training and development that directly relates to individual program implementation, weekly group facilitation by direct care staff and crisis management.

• Establish and maintain written and verbal communication with governing agencies, families and community, as needed.

• Assist in facilitating and encouraging family/parent involvement in children/youth programs.

• Assist in facilitating/coordinating children/youth transitional plans when children/youth are ready for movement to new programs/services.

• Review children/youth's incident reports, follow-up and communicate with other entities, as necessary.

• Attend and participate in Individual Child Plan (ICP) meetings.

• Attend weekly program meetings.

• Provide direct mental health services and support to youth and family within your scope

• Handle all intake assessments including ensuring proper parties sign all consents; gather and organization of all intake paperwork.

• Develop initial 24-hour treatment plan and 10-day individual child plan.

• Scheduling and coordination of supervision for family visits with support from admin.

• Participation in BID and IEP meetings with school districts

• Participation in county staffing to gather information for incoming admissions.

• Handle ongoing communication with placement coordinators, county caseworkers, guardians and placement agencies to support discharge to a lower level of care.

• Serve as a liaison between Laradon and other agencies, i.e., human services, school/day treatment, medical professionals to ensure child/youths' needs are met.

• Provide 24-hour crisis intervention and counseling to children/youth, as needed.

• On-Call 24 hours/day leadership rotation

• Drive participants as necessary for program needs.

• Maintain regular and punctual attendance

• As Laradon is a small employer and employees work in a collaborative, team environment, employee must be physically present in the office to perform his/her job functions.

• Other duties as assigned.

• A minimum of 24 hours of approved training annually

• Orientation

• First Aid/CPR

• Medication Certification

• Mandatory Reporting

• Incident Reporting/MANE

• Safety Care
• 20 hours of on-the-job training.

• Masters in psychology, social work or counseling.

• LCSW or LPC required.

• 2 years post graduate experience working with adolescents.

• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.

• Highly organized and adaptable

• Physical requirements include the ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force; physical condition to enable walking, standing, sitting, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling; stamina to be on feet and active for full work days; ability to complete training and perform physical management of child/youth as necessary, including physical restraints; ability to speak or exchange information in an audible manner.