Clinician II

Description

Help us Builda Thriving New England!

Ascentria Care Alliance employees and volunteers take pride in the impact they have on the people they serve. It’s more than just a job, it’s an opportunity our employees have to care for and share in the lives of people who greatly need and appreciate their presence. Ascentria Care Alliance focuses on every child, elder, disabled person, refugee, endangered teen or teenage mom in order to build stronger communities one person at a time.

This is an excellent opportunity to enhance the operations of a $75m non-profit social services organization with programs throughout New England.

Summary:

Ascentria’s Division of Children Services (DCS) program and Unaccompanied Refugee Minor (URM) program provide long-term foster care and case management support to unaccompanied youth in the United States. These youth are granted protection through refugee status, special immigrant juvenile status, asylum or trafficking visas. The Bilingual Clinician provides culturally sensitive mental health assessments, ongoing individual and group counseling, screening for human trafficking concerns, and crisis interventions to migrant and refugee youth from around the world.

The Bilingual Clinician actively participates in the life of the program and serves the mental health needs of youth through creative means and in a variety of settings.

• Provides ongoing direct therapeutic services to unaccompanied children and refugee youth, including individual sessions, group sessions, and family support as needed.
• Conducts thorough intake and assessment of new clients, develops appropriate treatment plans, and refers/discharges clients as appropriate.
• Flexibility to provide services in office setting, in foster homes, virtually, and in community.
• Completes clinical assessments, treatment plans, ongoing progress notes, and other assigned record keeping tasks for adolescents on caseload.
• Provides regular oversight and guidance to clinical program staff on counseling methods, treatment planning, clinical interventions, diagnostic assessments and screenings.
• Ensures all tools, assessments, trainings, and implementations utilized with youth are appropriate for language, culture, religion, age, and identity.
• Designs and implements culturally competent curriculum to train and educate youth clients.
• Ensures clinical team is meeting ORR guided policies for treatment of unaccompanied children.
• Participate in staff meetings with stakeholders and offer clinical feedback regarding client progress and treatment needs.
• Attends outside workshops and agency trainings as part of professional development activities.
• Coordinates with other service providers in the community, makes referrals, and builds clinical network for the benefit of clients and families.
• Ability to follow HIPAA guidelines as well as mental health federal & state regulations.
• Provides support and clinical supervision to therapeutic program staff including clinicians, therapeutic support workers, and clinical interns with service delivery, documentation, and client related issues.
• Assists in developing and facilitating ongoing education and support services of program staff and foster parents.
• Ensures all services, reporting, and documentation is completed to meet contractual standards and follows ORR and State licensing policies.
• Assists in managing the implementation and ongoing compliance with ORR’s Interim Final Rule standards on preventing, detecting, and responding to sexual abuse and harassment.
• Participates in client, staff, and program evaluation and sets goals for improvement.
• Communicate effectively both orally and written in both English and Spanish language to a broad variety of people, including staff, supervisors, foster…