Independently Licensed Clinician

About Your TeamYour team is part of our Family Preservation program which provides community-based prevention and intervention for high-risk children, adolescents, and their families, and focuses on issues affecting families including communication and parenting skills, truancy, and related family issues.

We provide a wide range of assistance and support to families who are in the process of reunification or are working to avoid separation.

What You’ll Be DoingYou will be responsible for holding sessions for a home-based service to complete a full assessment of a client and their family, diagnose the client, and create a treatment plan addressing the needs of the family that were informed by the full assessment.

The Independently Licensed Clinician would be working in partnership with a team of Clinical Care Coordinators and Community Health Workers to implement the treatment plan and identify and utilize appropriate clinical interventions in a home-based setting.

In addition, will be hold occasional workshops for team members to practice clinical interventions and supporting the team as needed in implementing skills.

Your Main PrioritiesWhile additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily :

• Works with families dealing with a variety of psychological, emotional, and social challenges and helps them build towards healthy coping and parenting skills.
• Conducts initial and follow-up assessments with client and identified family members / caregivers.
• Diagnose identified client in compliance with Medicaid standards.
• Develops, implements, and monitors an ongoing care plan for each family served; coordinate all service components within the agency and in the community through the lens of identified programmatic treatment models.
• Works with the program staff to support their implementation of services in line with the treatment plan.
• Creates coping and safety plans and monitor clients for ongoing safety needs, responding appropriately to crises as needed.
• Maintains accurate client records and complete documentation requirements.
• Makes appropriate referrals for specialized evaluations and treatment (i.e., psychiatric evaluation, medical evaluation, substance abuse evaluation, etc.).
• Make clinical recommendations for appropriate levels of care in order to refer to various points in the continuum of care, as needed.
• Participates in treatment team meetings with clinical care coordinators, key stakeholders, and DCYF.
• Completes discharge and transition plan with aftercare needs in mind.
• Holds occasional workshops for program staff to practice clinical interventions; support program staff in implementing skills as needed.

Who You AreRequirements, Skills & Abilities :

• Master’s degree in social work or related field required.
• Rhode Island Department of Health; LHMC, LICSW, LMFT, or equivalent required.
• Minimum 6 months’ experience working with children, adolescents, and / or families required.
• Experience with child and / or adolescent development, abuse, and crisis intervention preferred.
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
• Strong organizational, critical thinking and time-management skills.
• Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
• Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, proof of auto insurance and car registration.
• Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.
• The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.Physical RequirementsDirect Service Staff (Travel as part of position) : This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs.

This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and / or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.Travel RequirementsSite location : ProvidenceStatewide travel required.

Equal Employment OpportunityChild & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law.

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies :

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.Affirmative ActionChild & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate ServicesIn order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies :

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experiences by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities LGBTQ+ communities and others.

o Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.