Intensive Home Based Clinician

Intensive Home-Based Clinician I (IHBC)

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Location: Quincy and Macomb, IL and surrounding areas
Work Setting: Field-based hybrid — services provided in clients’ homes and communities, with telehealth when permitted

Help Children and Families Create Meaningful, Lasting Change

Blue Kite Wellness provides accessible, compassionate, individualized, and holistic mental health services to children, teens, adults, and families. We are seeking an Intensive Home-Based Clinician (IHBC) to support children, youth, and families participating in the Illinois Pathways to Success program.

The IHBC provides individualized, short-term behavioral health services in the settings where children and families live and grow. This role develops assessment-informed intervention plans, provides therapeutic services focused on symptom reduction and improved family functioning, and offers clinical direction to Intensive Home-Based Support (IHBS) staff.

The clinician works collaboratively with youth, caregivers, Care Coordinators, Child and Family Team members, and other authorized providers. Services are strengths-based, family-centered, solution-focused, and informed by Managing and Adapting Practice (MAP) and other HFS-approved approaches.

What You’ll Do

• Provide Intensive Home-Based Clinical services to children, youth, and families participating in the Illinois Pathways to Success program.
• Use information from the youth’s IM+CANS, Functional Behavioral Assessment, clinical observations, family input, and Child and Family Team to develop and update individualized clinical interventions.
• Deliver individual, family, and caregiver interventions focused on reducing symptoms, strengthening family functioning, and helping youth remain safely at home and in the community.
• Help caregivers strengthen communication, problem-solving, coping, emotional-regulation, and behavioral-management skills.
• Apply solution-focused strategies, Managing and Adapting Practice tools, and other HFS-approved approaches within your training and scope of practice.
• Provide clinical direction to assigned Intensive Home-Based Support staff, with supervision and consultation available as you develop proficiency in the IHB service model.
• Collaborate with caregivers, Care Coordinators, schools, crisis-response providers, and other members of the Child and Family Team.
• Support crisis prevention, safety planning, de-escalation, and post-crisis follow-up within the clinician’s scope of practice.
• Monitor client progress, communicate emerging needs or safety concerns, and adjust interventions in consultation with the supervisor and care team.
• Complete timely and accurate clinical documentation and participate in supervision, case consultation, team meetings, and required training.

What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Meets current Illinois requirements for a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) or Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (LPHA), including all applicable education, licensure, supervision, credentialing, and scope-of-practice requirements.
• Master’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology, or a related behavioral health field from an accredited institution.
• Entry-level to early-career clinical experience is welcome, provided the candidate meets the applicable Illinois QMHP or LPHA qualifications.
• Foundational knowledge of clinical assessment, treatment planning, client engagement, family intervention, crisis prevention, de-escalation, documentation, and care coordination.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with children, adolescents, caregivers, and multidisciplinary professionals.
• Ability to accept and apply clinical supervision, consultation, coaching, and performance feedback.
• Ability to work independently…