About Your Team
Your 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 Doing
You 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, you will hold occasional workshops for team members to practice clinical interventions and support the team as needed in implementing skills.
Your Main Priorities
While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:
- Work with families dealing with a variety of psychological, emotional, and social challenges and help them build towards healthy coping and parenting skills.
- Conduct initial and follow-up assessments with clients and identified family members/caregivers.
- Diagnose identified clients in compliance with Medicaid standards.
- Develop, implement, and monitor 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.
- Work with the program staff to support their implementation of services in line with the treatment plan.
- Create coping and safety plans and monitor clients for ongoing safety needs, responding appropriately to crises as needed.
- Maintain accurate client records and complete documentation requirements.
- Make 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.
- Participate in treatment team meetings with clinical care coordinators, key stakeholders, and DCYF.
- Complete discharge and transition plans with aftercare needs in mind.
- Hold occasional workshops for program staff to practice clinical interventions; support program staff in implementing skills as needed.
Who You Are
Requirements, 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 Requirements
Direct 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 Requirements
Site location: Providence. Statewide travel required.
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