Clinician
Southwest Key Programs
- Pleasant Hill, CA
- $60,969-79,263 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Conduct intake, admission, and screenings, with minors, and document results according to Southwest Key Programs standards to maintain quality assurance standards.
- Collaborate with treatment team members and minors to develop treatment
- Provide a minimum of one weekly one-to-one counseling session (or more often if needed) and crisis intervention as
- Facilitate weekly educational and minor group counseling session.
- Continually monitor the mental/emotional well-being of minors and arrange appropriate third-party services as needed, including arranging for and facilitating external specialized mental health services with community providers.
- Provide consultation and documentation regarding minors’ functioning, mental health status, and treatment
- Identify mental health needs, consult on high-risk cases for possible external third-party focused interventions, outpatient, or inpatient services.
- Provide clinical services within Southwest Key, in accordance with licensing and funding source
- Participate in and comply with all meetings, assignments, process improvement, and quality improvement initiatives as assigned by supervisor.
- Attend all organizational required
- Attend all departmental and program meetings to ensure that up-to-date information is received and/or information on policy changes or practices is adhered
- Assist in the evacuation of youth as needed due to inclement weather conditions, natural disasters, or other unforeseen
- Travel as needed for trainings, conferences or to transport youth to destinations located within the S.
- Maintain a safe, clean, and hazard-free work
- Always ensure the proper supervision of youth.
- Respond to change productively and handle other essential tasks as assigned.
- Master’s degree in social work (MSW) counseling, psychology or other relevant behavioral science field in which clinical training and experience is a program requirement and one year of postgraduate direct mental health service delivery
- One year of postgraduate direct service delivery experience preferred in conducting clinical interviewing and assessment, as well as individual and group
- Ability to utilize evidence-based theory to conceptualize clinical cases to formulate treatment plans and related techniques and interventions.
- Licensed or license eligible in respective field:
- Arizona: LAMSW/LCSW, LAC/LPC, LAMFT/LMFT, Associate Psychologist or Psychologist.
- California: APCC/LPCC, ASW/CSW, AMFT/LMFT, Associate Psychologist Licensed Psychologist.
- Experience working with children, youth, and/or families from high-risk
- Successful completion of 86 hours of pre-service training and job
- Required to work a flexible schedule to facilitate program
- Cleared tuberculosis test results.
- Cleared background check from appropriate
- (English/Spanish) – ability to communicate well both verbally and in writing.
- One year of postgraduate direct service delivery experience conducting clinical interviewing and assessment, as well as individual and group
- Experience working with children and youth in inpatient, residential, or detention
- Experience working in an ethical and culturally diverse environment with undocumented children and/or
- Turkish, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, French, Arabic/English – ability to communicate well both verbally and in writing.