Bilingual Site Team Clinician

Kent School Services Network

Bilingual Site Team Clinician

Job Summary, Position Details & Job Description

Job Title: Site Team Clinician

Department/Division: Kent School Services Network in Family Preservation Services

Reports To: Clinical Program Manager

Pay Range: $49,920.00- $55,250.00

Classification: Full Time Salaried
- Exempt

D.A. Blodgett
- St. John's

MISSION STATEMENT: To help children and empower families by providing safety, advocacy, and support.

VISION: A safe, nurturing home for every child, a supportive community for every family.

• Exceptional Service:
  Client-focused and teaming at the center of our work.
• Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion:
  All are welcomed, valued, and belong.
• Excellence:
  Ongoing commitment to learning and improvement.
• Integrity:
  Responsibility and ownership of our actions and results.
• Creativity:
  Imagination, innovation, and intelligent risk taking.
• Passion:
  Relentless positive energy toward our mission and vision.

• Nonviolence:
  Maintaining safety for all members of the community.
• Emotional Intelligence:
  Managing emotions so we don't hurt ourselves or others.
• Social Learning:
  Together we accomplish more, we care for one another.
• Democracy:
  Everyone has a voice, not necessarily a vote.
• Open Communication:
  Respecting and sharing ideas of our team.
• Social Responsibility:
  Say what you mean, don't be mean when you say it.
• Growth & Change:
  Creating hope for ourselves and the people we serve.

Kent School Services Network (KSSN) brings health and human services into the school building to serve children and families. The initiative goals are to increase support for students, families, and schools; increase access to health, mental health, and community resources; increase parent/community engagement and involvement; to promote opportunities that support student's educational, social and emotional development; and to offload the non-education issues from the principal and teachers to allow them time to focus on educating the children.

The Team Clinician focuses on meeting the mental health needs of the children and families by providing in home or outpatient therapy and/or connecting families to other mental health resources that best meets their need. These issues can include depression, anxiety, child abuse effects, harming oneself, slowness in learning, eating disorders, phobias, aggression and other symptoms or difficulties in behavior and feelings.

The Clinician helps children assess their issues by observing their behaviors and assessing what treatments will best benefit the child.

The KSSN Site Team Clinician provides two levels of services and acts as a Network 180 Access center to refer to others. The KSSN Site Team Clinician provides both outpatient and home-based services to clients that are referred. Group therapy is also utilized as needed. The STC may also be involved with the school's Attendance Team and Community School Leadership Team.

• Assess, counsel, educate, advocate for, and support referred children and families.
• Complete all necessary Agency, CMH, and other miscellaneous paperwork requirements within deadlines per program and contract requirements.
• Able to meet clients and their families in non-traditional settings, i.e. client's home, restaurant, or public places.
• Reviews resources and materials for cultural relevance and accessibility for specific children and families.
• Meet with clients a minimum of required contacts per month as set by contract and program requirements (Work closely with the KSSN Community School Coordinator to meet the needs of the school as deemed appropriate by school staff and supervisor.
• Complete nonbillable contact hours per week in your school building per KSSN contract.
• Acts as a cultural and linguistic bridge between children, families and community groups from different backgrounds.
• Provides direct service to include intake, assessment, individual/family therapy, and crisis interventions to client's and provide proper and timely documentation of these services in the client record.
• Manages a mixed caseload of Outpatient, Outpatient Bundle, Case Management, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (as certified), and Home-Based services and maintain monthly unit expectations for each service as deemed by contract and program requirements
• Provides services both on-site at the school facility and off-site to include the client's home support network per caseload requirements as deemed by program
• Maintain monthly contact with all parents/guardians of each client.
• Completes initial treatment plans, treatment plan updates, treatment authorizations, quarterly reports, and discharge summaries within required deadlines.
• Participate in family education, training, and support group activities when needed. Utilize a variety of treatment models, skills, and interventions that best fit a client's individual needs and/or family's needs.
• Participate in required case-related activities such as school…