Youth Residential Clinician - Albany, United States - St. Catherine's Center for Children

Description

About Our Organization:

St. Catherine's Center for Children offers a wide array of services designed to meet the needs of vulnerable children, families and adults, including residential and foster care programs for children and youth, homeless and community-based services for adults and families, and a special education elementary school.

Our Mission:

St. Catherine's Center for Children provides a comprehensive range of human services designed to offer hope, foster growth, and improve the lives of the children, families, and adults we serve.

Function:

The function of the Clinician, Residential is to coordinate and implement treatment for each child in residential care as planned by the treatment team. The Residential Clinician provides clinical treatment to the child and their family; acts as a liaison between child, family, school, the treatment team including clinical consultants and residential child care staff, and the referring agency; and documents treatment progress as required by SCCC and by its regulating agencies.

Duties/Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• As a member of the treatment team, provides clinical treatment as planned by the team including, but not limited to, family therapy, individual psychotherapy, and group therapy.
• Acts as liaison with the family; clinically supervises visits when clinical intervention is necessary, represents and articulates family issues to the other team members (including other clinical staff, child care staff, and teachers), secures signed HIPAA releases and consents from the family or agency of legal custody to facilitate coordination of care.
• Maintains regular contact with the Day Treatment School Social Worker to share information about their clients. When a client is enrolled in a school other than SCCC Day treatment, Clinician will maintain sufficient contact with that school to ensure the child is benefiting from optimum educational placement. Social worker will also participate in CSE meetings and maintain contact with SCCC CSE chairperson.
• Acts as liaison with child care staff and case management staff through participation on the treatment team, and at treatment reviews, service plan reviews, medication reviews, and staff meetings.
• Documents treatment processes as required by SCCC and by its regulating agencies including:
• Completion of thorough and up-to-date progress notes in both the AWARDS and NYS Connections systems;
• Preparation of clinical/diagnostic assessments, court reports, correspondence with other agencies, psychosocial summaries;
• Completion of quarterly Treatment Reviews and facilitation of treatment meetings at houses;
• Preparation or collection of all materials necessary to bring records into compliance with internal and external agency regulations, e.g., school information, requests for clinical involvement, etc.
• summary reports requested by referring and other collaborative agencies.
  
  
• In conjunction with the House Management Team (Child Care Supervisor, Case Manager and Nurse), develops and maintains a therapeutic environment at the site.
• As a member of the clinical staff, provides 24-hour on-call crisis services (this includes but is not limited to assessment and counseling) on a rotational basis.
• Attends all court hearings pertaining to the placement, permanency, and treatment of the child and family.
• Meets weekly with the Supervisor of 29i Clinical Services to review progress toward goals, and design and implement specific treatment strategy and goals for children and families.
• As the primary clinician for child/ family, flexes hours at least two days a week to include evening hours outside of the traditional work day.
• Functions as a member of the Direct Care Planning Team, meeting with HMT members, unit child care supervisors, consultants, nurses and case managers to evaluate and plan for the therapeutic milieu.
• Additional position-related duties and responsibilities assigned by the Supervisor of 29i Clinical Services.

Organizational Relationships:

• The Residential Clinician is directly responsible to, and is supervised by, the Supervisor of 29i Clinical Services. (The Residential Clinician does not supervise any paid staff within the agency.)
• The Residential Clinician is accountable to the child's treatment team for the provision of updated treatment plans and progress reports regarding therapy of children and families.

Position Specifications:

• Master's degree in Social Work or Mental Health Counseling from an accredited university or a Master's degree in a related field, is required.
• Clinical Licensure (LMSW, LMHC, etc) is required. A Limited Permit will be considered.
• Two years' experience preferred and a professional record of integrity and strong advocacy for children.
• Clean and Valid New York State Driver's License.
• Must possess excellent communication skills.

Essential Functions:

• Ability to manage a diverse and broad workload
• Assess, and treat children and families utilizing the modalities of individual, family, and/or group therapy
• Capacity to perform agency approved restraint procedures.
• Must be able to respond effectively and therapeutically in crisis situations.
• Ability to work effectively in a shared decision-making model as a team member.
• Ability to organize and effectively manage (in a timely manner) the varied tasks of the position.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other personnel/ service providers or professionals.
• A commitment to empowering others to solve his/ her own problems.
• Valuing a nurturing family as the ideal environment for a person.
• A conviction about the capacity of people to grow and change.
• The ability to establish a respectful relationship with persons served to help them gain skills and confidence.
• The capacity to maintain a helping role and to intervene appropriately to meet service goals.
• The ability to set appropriate limits.
• Mobility, in terms of home visits to clients' homes, and to make other on-site contacts with referring agencies, collaborative agencies, foster homes, etc.
• Ability to relate to a wide range of people. This includes but is not limited to a broad range of people who are culturally and socio-economically diverse, as well as people with various developmental and functional levels.
• Ability to understand, represent and carry out the mission, values, philosophy and policies of St. Catherine's Center for Children.
• Ability to communicate by using telecommunications system as well as face to face.
• Ability to conduct themself in a manner that is becoming of an employee of St. Catherine's Center for Children.
• Ability to carry out written documentation as required by St. Catherine's policy and by regulatory agencies who have oversight responsibility for St. Catherine's programs.
• Ability to organize and effectively manage in a timely fashion the varied tasks of the position.
• This position will have full and complete access to client Protected Health Information (PHI) in order to carry out the duties and responsibilities for this position.

What We Offer*:

• Competitive Pay with an excellent Benefits package
• Health Insurance options: medical, dental and vision
• Generous Combined Leave Time and Holiday Pay
• $500 Employee Referral Bonus*
• On-going Professional Development & Career Growth Opportunities
• Pension Plan with Aggressive Agency contribution
• Life Insurance – Automatic Benefit
• Paid Training & Tuition Reimbursement*
• Travel/ Mileage Reimbursement*
• Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• The Comfort of a Business Casual work Environment.

*some conditions may apply

EOE Statement: We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Background Checks: We run a thorough and complete pre-employment background check on all candidates being considered for a position, this includes fingerprinting. All candidates must successfully clear the pre-employment background check process, which follows NYS/DOJ requirements. We pay for all pre-employment background checks