Assessment Clinician

Through hope & healing, Sinnissippi Centers strives to empower all to live their best lives.

Sinnissippi Centers is in need of an Assessment Clinician in our Freeport office! Sinnissippi is expanding our services along with the Illinois CCBHC program to ensure access to coordinated and comprehensive behavioral health care and our commitment to person-centered treatment. This position will provide assessment and care coordination to help people navigate behavioral health care, physical health care, social services, and the other systems they are involved in.

This position provides a great opportunity for a self-directed mental health clinician to make a significant contribution to the larger care team. Working as an independent health care provider, you'll play an integral role in our care teams by providing high-quality, cost-effective care to clients while working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary health team.

• Provide Psychosocial assessments to youth and adults, as well as families with emotional and behavioral health needs.
• Provide individual therapy for social, emotional and environmental issues that impact client/family ability to optimally benefit from care.
• Provides education and/or consultation to clients and their families.
• Collaborate with other staff, clinicians and medical professionals in a fast-paced environment.
• Provide brief evidence-based interventions.
• Provide short, but intense follow-up.
• Connect clients to resources.
• Use outcome-based models to track client improvement.

• Ability to maintain effective and professional relationships with patients and other members of the care team.
• Ability to effectively engage patients in a therapeutic relationship, when appropriate.
• Experience with screening, assessing, and carrying out treatment plans for common mental health disorders.
• Working knowledge of differential diagnosis of common mental health disorders.
• Working knowledge of evidence-based psychosocial treatments for common mental health disorders.
• Basic knowledge of psychopharmacology for common mental health disorders.
• Familiarity with social/human service practices, confidentiality, and risk/malpractice issues within health care settings.
• Bachelor's degree and/or nursing license required; and previous clinical experience.

• Employee assistance program
• Agency-provided Life insurance
• Supplemental Life insurance
• Paid time off
• 401(k) Retirement plan with 50% - employer match

Salary: $51,405 - $53,975 (MHP/Bachelor's level); $59,116 - $62,071 (QMHP/Master's level)

We currently offer a hiring bonus for newly hired licensed clinicians or bilingual clinicians. This only applies to LCPC, LCSW, LMFT, and bilingual degreed clinician candidates. Bilingual ability relates to Spanish, and the candidate must be willing to use their bilingual ability. Candidates will receive $500 after they are hired and an additional $500 after their 6-month anniversary.

YOU are welcome here. At Sinnissippi Centers, we understand that each person is unique and rooted in their individual culture. Using evidence-based practices, our approach of trauma-informed care creates a safe place where people are seen, heard, valued, empowered to succeed, and can proudly see themselves-as consumers, as staff, and as community members.