Clinician - Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital

Do you enjoy an active environment that keeps you engaged and challenged, as well as consistently allows you to develop and learn? Are you looking for a clinical position that uses the most current evidenced-based practices in the field of behavior analysis and intervention?

If you answered YES to either of these questions, then consider joining our Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health team!

Devereux Children’s Behavioral Health Center (DCBHC), located in Malvern, PA, provides programs and services for children and adolescents who are experiencing an acute psychiatric crisis within a safe and compassionate inpatient environment. The team is currently seeking a Full-Time Clinician with ABA experience to provide the coordination and delivery of clinical services to include family and individual therapy for assigned individuals. In this role you will maintain a caseload of 6 individuals and provide therapy, support with aftercare recommendations, along with insurance reviews.

You Will Be Offered

• Consistent work schedule, M-F, 8am-4pm or 9am-5pm.
• Evidenced Based treatment and care models within a clinically based environment focused on collaboration and treatment teams.
• CEU and continued education credits through various professional activities and Devereux’s National Institute for Clinical Training and Research Center.
• A stable, national, non-profit that offers a strong support system and is forward-thinking in their clinical practice and research.
• ASCEND- Career Accelerator Program
• BENEFIT ELIGIBILITY AFTER 30 DAYS OF EMPLOYMENT (1st day of the 1st pay period after 30 days). Plan options that are affordable for you and your family.
• Unlicensed annual salary of $54,000 - $61,560 and licensed annual salary of $56,637 - $64,566.18 (dependent upon experience).

Every day as a Clinician you will...

• Provide and/or coordinate the delivery of non-medical therapeutic services to patients in an acute care setting utilizing assessments, and individual, group and family therapy.
• Conduct strength based bio-psychosocial and need oriented assessment of current family/guardian system, develop treatment plan and follow up on progress
• Enter authorizations into Profiler within 24hr of obtaining them and follow up with all appeals
• Serve as the voice of treatment with all formal and informal communication with the team
• Coordinate discharge planning and assigned liaison activities between families, agencies, and the treatment team to insure the highest standard of participation and the best practice of service delivery

Devereux Pennsylvania Children’s Services (DPACS) center serves children, adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, behavioral, emotional and psychiatric challenges and disorders. Located in West Chester and Malvern Pennsylvania, services provided include psychiatric residential treatment (PRTF), acute inpatient psychiatric hospital (AIP), assessment services, community-based mental health services, community-based employment training and social skills training, and approved private school educational services to male and female children and adolescents (6-21 years of age) with diagnoses of intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, concomitant psychiatric and behavioral challenges often associated with experiencing some level of trauma in their lives.

Qualifications

Education: Master's Degree in Psychology, Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Social Work or other related Human Service Discipline. Licensed or licensure track preferred.

• Clinical Internship and one year relevant experience working with children and adolescents in a residential setting required.
• Proficient computer skills and a working knowledge of software programs (i.e. Microsoft word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc).

Experience: Some experience working with children in a residential treatment setting.

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.