Bilingual Clinician - San Mateo, United States - Edgewood Center for Children and Families

Description

Mission

Edgewood is the place to begin for any child or youth to get the mental health care, social services, and academic support they need from highly trained welcoming professionals.

Vision Statement:

• For everyone we serve to have the power to live life with understanding, confidence, strength, and joy.

Bilingual Clinician, TPCY:

• This is a fulltime position, 40 hours a week, Mon through Fri, 8:30am 5:00pm,hybrid, with community based work, and evenings when required.

The new hire for this position will receive a $5,000 bonus after a year of service Pro-rated amount to hours worked.

Program Description

The Turning Point C/Y Program is a comprehensive, full-service partnership (FSP) for forty-five of the highest risk children/youth living in San Mateo County.

Turning Point C/Y is designed to help children and youth achieve independence, stability, and wellness within the context of their culture, community, and family/caregiver.

Turning Point C/Y seeks to stabilize youth in the community using natural support structures.


Position Summary

The clinician works collaboratively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team providing community oriented and strengths-based services to children and youth (ages 6-21) and their families.

The family therapist will provide short-term intensive family therapy when it has been identified as a need.

S/he will also conduct timely comprehensive assessments, participate in marketing efforts, and complete all of the necessary paperwork associated with the intake process.

This position will also share responsibility for ensuring the quality of customer service to youth and referral sources. S/he will give case overviews to program staff at the conclusion of the assessment period.


Core Competencies

• Provides safe, effective, efficient, culturally competent, and youthcentered implementation of direct care in accordance with established policies, procedures, and standards of care.
• Represents Edgewood professionally by doing what s/he commits to doing, taking responsibility for her/his own mistakes, maintaining confidentiality, and carrying her/his fair share of the workload.
• Participates as an engaged team member to improve the overall effectiveness of one's work group and to achieve shared goals by offering support, providing expertise, listening, and responding constructively in order to find solutions that team members can support.
• Is able to function effectively when under pressure, maintain selfcontrol in the face of hostility or provocation, and manages her/his own behavior to prevent or reduce feelings of stress.
• Demonstrates openness to different and new solutions and is able to see the merits of perspectives other than her/his own within the treatment team.
• Accomplishes work objectives in a conscientious, efficient, thoughtful, and reliable manner.
• Expresses thoughts, ideas, and opinions clearly, fluently, and concisely in written and oral communication; while ensuring that information is passed on to others who should be kept informed.
• Commits to job activities even when obstacles impede progress, develops effective alternative solutions, and uses resources creatively to successfully address unanticipated events.
• Communicates with youth in a therapeutic manner to create safety and facilitate emotional expression, selfawareness, selfesteem, and social skill development.
• Maintains distinct and structured adult/child boundaries. (i.e., no handson contact with youth)
• Adapts to changes in job demands, work priorities, and organizational structure without adverse effects on one's job performance.
• Is able to notice and accurately interpret what others are feeling based on their choice of words, tone of voice, expressions, and other nonverbal behaviors and responds by exercising clinical judgment.
• Identifies, plans, and delivers oral and written communications that make an impact and persuade her/his intended audiences.
• Shares information, advice, and suggestions to help others to be more successful.
• Assesses the strengths and needs of youth, families, and support systems.

Essential Functions

• Provides leadership in the assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of individualized service plans, including coordination of multiple services and treatment providers.
• Conducts individual, group, couples, family, and/or multifamily therapy utilizing therapeutic modalities such as CBT, DBT, Narrative, Structural, Trauma Focused CBT, or other best practices.
• Assumes responsibility for configuring, coordinating, and facilitating youth services, including collaboration with referring providers, probation, child welfare, school districts, C/Y Staff, and other professionals involved in a youth's care.
• Assists youth and families in assessing strengths and needs, and helps them identify strategies to meet these needs, including enhancing natural supports and community resources.
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