Clinician - Child Residential Job Code:12479 Location:Saco 04072 Department:Therapy Clinic Based FT/PT Status:Full Time Summary: **$20,000 Sign-On Bonus!** Serves children/adolescents, their families, guardians, and other care providers through individual, group, and family therapy in a residential setting. In conjunction with the residential supervisor, provides clinical leadership to program staff by implementing the treatment plan in the residential milieu. Rate of Pay: starting at $60,000 Part-time or Full-time options! **ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:** **FT Caseload is a max 8 clients!** **Assessment:** + Use organization’s established tools and procedures to formulate assessment of the child/adolescent and his/her family. This includes level of care and risk assessments as needed. Involve family members and significant others. + Completes assessment to make diagnosis with possible collaboration with others. **Treatment Planning and Service Delivery:** + With the child/adolescent and his/her family, develop an Individualized Service Plan (ISP), Individual Crisis Management Plan (ICMP), and a Discharge and Aftercare Plan and other documents associated with the Record such as the Initial Assessment (IA) or Service Update (SUD). + Offer treatment to the child/adolescent and his/her family by using family-centered clinical techniques and therapies (including individual, group and family therapy as indicated.) + Assist in developing and monitoring specialized behavioral programs, as indicated. + Identify concrete service needs and help the family make a referral for community based services. **Documentation and Accountability:** + Achieve program-specific productivity expectations. + Maintain historical records by documenting service delivery and ensuring the timely completion of all programmatic paperwork documentation and electronic record. + Assure quality service for clients by enforcing rules, regulations, and legal requirements with clients. + Adhere to professional code of ethics. + Attend and participate in supervision. + Complete necessary documentation to ensure funding. + Provide a clinical experience for student interns as appropriate: **EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:** Master’s degree in either social work, psychology, clinical counseling or other comparable mental health program. **CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:** + Fully licensed or conditionally licensed as an LCSW, LCPC, LMSW or LMFT, we are also able to accept licensing candidates for this position! + Valid state driver's license. **EXPERIENCE:** + Experience in a residential-based service system preferred. + Persons with lived experience in the Mental Health and/or Substance Abuse system are encouraged to apply. **KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:** + Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, treatment plans and memos. + Ability to write correspondence. + Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to clients and other employees of the organization. + Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. + Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. + Above average computer skills a must; power, keyboard and mouse functions. + Ability to work with difficult-to-manage youth. + Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with other professionals on behalf of youth and their families. + Able to develop a positive therapeutic relationship with clients and their families. + Ability to transport clients. + Demonstrated competence in discipline.