Clinician

Job Description Job Description Position Description Title: Clinician Date: August 8th, 2022 Location: Colorado Position SUMMARY: Provides exceptional clinical mental health care and related services to emergency responders and public safety personnel and their families. Services include but are not limited to evaluation, treatment, referral, emergency and follow up services for individuals, couples, families, adolescents, and children. Ensures clinical services are provided in accordance with professional best practices, ethical codes of conduct, organizational policies, and agency contractual terms. Assists with the development and delivery of various clinically based trainings including, but not limited to, peer support, wellness and resiliency, stress management and mitigation, suicide screening and prevention. RESPONSIBILITIES: Provides exceptional, culturally competent, and ethical mental health care to emergency responders and public safety personnel and their families. Assists in the development and delivery of various trainings for on-demand, online training and live, in-person trainings on location with various agencies. Provides on-call emergency services and critical incident defusing and debriefings. Performs clinical responsibilities within the scope of training, experience, and licensure. Other duties as assigned. Educational and Experience Requirements: Preferred: A Doctorate in Psychology, full licensure in the state of Colorado, and demonstrated culturally competent service to emergency responders and public safety personnel. Minimum: A Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, or Clinical Mental Health Counseling provisionally licensed to practice in the state of Colorado. Skills and Abilities: Empathetic, trauma-informed psychologist/counselor/therapist with exceptional communication and attunement skills. EMDR therapy skills and experience with emergency responders. Energetic, flexible, collaborative, and proactive team contributor who can positively and productively impact the clinical services team. Solid working knowledge of clinical best practices, legal and ethical guidelines for the emergency responder and public safety population. Excellent clinical case conceptualization skills. Self-starter motivated to remain current with best practice standards and current research on treatment methods and modalities. Demonstrated experience in maintaining appropriate professional boundaries. Excellent interpersonal skills. Excellent collaboration, verbal and written communication skills for both internal and external communication needs. Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills including negotiation, de-escalation and conflict resolution skills. Must be able to work extended work schedule including nights and weekends as needed. Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk or hear use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and occasionally required to stand; walk; climb stairs. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision. Work Environment: Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The work environment is usually in the organization’s primary office locations. Emergency services and post-critical incident services are often provided outside of the office location, on-site at various agencies. Travel required; travel time associated with events/occasions as by emergency and critical events. FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: Reports to: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Direction Received: Independently performs most assignments with instructions as to the general results expected. Consistently exercises discretion and independent judgment regarding clinical services matters. Responsibility for Directing Others: May dire #J-18808-Ljbffr