Clinician - Childrens Congregate Care

Overview

The Clinician will be responsible for providing direct clinical care to children, adolescents and their families, as appropriate to the program in which the clinician works. The clinician will ensure that the highest-quality services are provided in compliance with performance specifications, agency policies and procedures, and regulating entities.

Clinicians should provide services in keeping with best practices, evidence-based knowledge, and the ethics of their educational discipline. The clinician should attend to risk issues, documentation of care, timeliness of documentation, professionalism, productivity, and administrative issues related to providing clinical care.

The Oxford House program is a 24/7 staffed 1:3, Intensive Treatment Residence servicing adolescent males ages 12-18.

• Provide services that are time-effective, defined episodes of care that focus on the restoration, enhancement, and/or maintenance of a client’s optimal level of functioning, and the alleviation or amelioration of significant and debilitating symptoms impacting at least one area of the client’s life domains.
• Provide the highest-quality clinical care to clients in keeping with best-practice, agency standards, and the directives of the clinical position.
• Compose oneself with professionalism, ethical practice, and compassionate regard for consumers/clients.
• Maintain or exceed productivity on a weekly and monthly basis in order to realize an annual expectation.
• Document all clinical care in agency Electronic Health Record and in any other required data entry system.
• Ensure that any issues or concerns related to risk or ethical misconduct are immediately brought to a supervisor, assistant director, director or other licensed senior staff member.
• Provide clinical care such that the following values are embedded in practice: client-centered care, recognition of multiple perspectives, inclusion, equity and diversity, active and reflective listening, strengths-based approach, and trauma-informed care.
• Attend and participate in a variety of meetings and trainings.

• MSW/ Masters in Counseling or related degree required. License eligible preferred.
• Developing proficiency in individual/youth and family clinical care, as well as mental health, educational, developmental care, child welfare, and juvenile justice systems.
• Proof of a valid driver’s license, acceptable driving record, and reliable personal transportation to fulfill essential job functions is required.
• Demonstrated and/or developing competency with establishing a therapeutic rapport with clients.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion, confidentiality, collaboration, ethics, appropriate boundaries and good judgment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, organization skills, timeliness, and ability to work effectively with others.
• Ability to obtain a CANS certification.