Clinical Milieu Facilitator -PT-RCC-

Job Code: 2026-SPECIALI-072

Location:

Milwaukee

Department:
Residential Treatment Center

FT/PT Status:
Full Time

The Clinical Milieu Facilitator is focused on supporting and guiding staff in creating a positive, motivating treatment milieu. This role supports engaging youth in structured activities including clinical sessions, skills groups and other scheduled programming. The Clinical Milieu Facilitator serves as an on shift guide, promoting the agreements and assumptions of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and fostering skill development. This role includes providing support to the program culture and teaching and role modeling skills .

• Supporting therapeutic interactions by coaching youth and staff on skill use throughout daily activities, modeling appropriate behavior, teaching and reinforcing use and generalization of skills through a token economy system.
• Use evidence-based best practices for youth with mental health, substance use and life needs. This includes the innovative Integrated Treatment Model (ITM) including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), trauma informed care, motivational interviewing, youth centered, and culturally reverent approaches while celebrating youth’s development and identity.
• Co-facilitate Dialectical Behavior Therapy groups and other group topics pertaining to healthy relationships, fatherhood, independent living skills, substance use education, and cultural identity development curriculums.
• Create milieu shaping, blocking and exposure plans, monitor adherence and provide debriefings to leads and shift change meetings.
• Assist with admissions process, assisting families with paperwork completion and orientation of youth to the program.
• Develop the monthly newsletter to capture the successes and treatment of the program.
• Facilitate the Youth Advisory Committee, including planning, facilitating and documenting meetings.
• Work with the youth to complete treatment related information including following the egregious behavior protocol, and diary cards.
• Assist in the training of new and existing staff on group facilitation, clinical needs and skills coaching.
• Always provide active sight and sound supervision to youth and families with complex needs.
• Provide coaching staff on working with youth experiencing emotional dysregulation and/or crisis according to their treatment plans including one-on-one support for the plan for extra help.
• Interact with youth in a professional, positive and therapeutic manner according to policy, procedure, training and agency values.
• Work closely as part of a team to maintain clear communication with other staff to ensure youth receive high quality and seamless care.
• Observe and document youth participation in activities and interactions with others per program standards (youth logs and youth related reports) in an electronic database.
• Assist youth by transporting and attending medical appointments, court, community appointments, and family visits.
• Work with the Quality Assurance team to review annual schedules and conduct program improvement projects to ensure programming is updated and current.
• Provide staff coverage for vacations, call ins and staff shortages.
• Administer medication and ensure staff are aware of medication changes, side effects and interactions in collaboration with medical providers and nursing staff.
• Work as part of an on-call rotation to support admissions, and respond to the clinical needs of youth, ensuring they are being met and provide clinical guidance to staff during crisis and after hours.
• Maintain youth and family confidentiality within all written and verbal communications.
• Adhere to State licensing requirements.
• Adhere to WCS Policies and…