Clinician - Dumfries, VA

Job Title

The Clinician plays a crucial role in delivering high-quality behavioral services to the individuals supported by Beacon Specialized Living.

This role is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for individuals by promoting positive behaviors and reducing challenging behaviors and involves conducting comprehensive functional behavior assessments, developing individualized treatment plans, and implementing evidence-based interventions to improve client outcomes. The Clinician exercises independent clinical judgment and discretion in designing and modifying treatment strategies, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and best practices. This position requires advanced knowledge of behavioral health principles and methodologies. The Clinician collaborates closely with an intra-disciplinary team of professionals, families, and external stakeholders to ensure effective and consistent implementation of behavior support plans, while also providing consultation and guidance to staff on complex behavioral issues.

Primary Responsibilities

• Always be compliant with Beacon policies and procedures.
• Independently coordinates, designs, and monitors individualized behavior treatment plans, exercising professional judgment to evaluate effectiveness through comprehensive data analysis and evidence-based methodologies.
• Provides face to face clinical services to BSLS clients according to the scope(s) of practice assigned.
• Leads crisis response efforts, utilizing clinical expertise to assess situations, determine appropriate interventions, and implement resolution strategies.
• Provides consultation and debriefing to staff and individuals following incidents, guiding corrective actions and ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Conducts root-cause evaluations of adverse incidents and develops strategic modifications to treatment plans and organizational protocols.
• Serves as a clinical consultant in interdisciplinary meetings, offering professional recommendations and influencing treatment decisions.
• Participate in treatment team meetings and case reviews, contributing advanced clinical insights and guiding care planning.
• Maintains comprehensive clinical documentation, including Positive Behavioral Support Plans (PBSP), Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA), and detailed clinical summaries, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
• Analyzes and interprets monthly data sets to monitor progress, exercising discretion in adjusting interventions based on outcomes.
• Conduct behavioral assessments.
• Ensures that our activities and programs will enrich the clients' social, emotional, mental and physical needs as well as increase their home involvement and independent living skills.
• Assists with the development and implementation of ongoing behavioral health training for clinical staff.
• Assists in communicating with family members and friends of the individuals supported as appropriate.
• Conducts on-site training for home managers, program managers and direct care staff, and assist sites with training tracking as needed.
• Assists with resident abuse and neglect investigations and communicate findings with home manager, compliance, clinical and operations' leadership.
• Build positive relationships with CMH and other government or service agencies and assist in coordinating care as needed.
• Contributes to performance improvement initiatives, applying professional expertise to enhance service quality.
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.
• Adheres to BSLS Core Values, Mission Statement, and Corporate Philosophies.
• Performs On-Call as required.

Team Member Expectations

• Must always be compliant with Beacon policies and procedures.
• Preserve and protect the privacy, confidentiality and security of all medical records, proprietary and other confidential information relating to Beacon Specialized Living Services, Inc., its individuals, Team Members, activities and affiliates, in accordance with all applicable laws (especially HIPAA) and contract terms.
• Promote Beacon in a positive manner and lead by example, modeling our core values in everyday behavior.
• Understand how to approach and communicate with all individuals including those who are cognitively impaired.
• Treat Individuals, family members and other team members with dignity and respect while responding to their needs.
• Promote trauma informed care at all levels of the organization and help create a culture that is sensitive and responsive to the feelings of our individuals to help our staff overcome and avoid responding negatively to stigmas they will never truly understand.

• Apply trauma informed care: recognizing the presence of trauma symptoms and acknowledging the role trauma may play in an individual's life including service staff.
• Maintain and sustain a safe community environment and workplace.
• Follow Beacon's policies, procedures, and manuals.
• Cooperates with Beacon Specialized Living, the Department of Human Services (DHS) staff or any other regulatory body during any inspection, investigation or inquiry.
• Accept other duties as assigned.

Professional Conduct and Management Effectiveness

In addition to evaluating your work performance you will be evaluated for the following work behaviors:

• Job Knowledge: Depth and breadth of knowledge supporting our organization goals.
• Quality of Work: Freedom from errors and mistakes, timeliness. Accuracy, quality of work in general.
• Quantity of Work: Work output of the employee.
• Reliability: The extent to which the employee can be dependent upon to be available for work, do it properly, and complete it on time. The degree to which the employee is reliable, trustworthy, and persistent.
• Initiative and Creativity: The ability to plan work and to go ahead with a task without being told every detail and the ability to make constructive suggestions.
• Judgment: The extent to which the employee makes decisions which are sound. Ability to base decisions on fact rather than emotion.
• Cooperation: Willingness to work harmoniously with others in getting a job done. Readiness to respond positively to instructions and procedures.
• Attendance: Faithfulness in coming to work daily and conforming to scheduled work hours.
• Planning and Organizing: The ability to analyze work, set goals, develop plans of action, utilize time, and delegate work as appropriate. Consider the amount of supervision required and the extent to which you can trust employees to carry out assignments conscientiously.
• Directing and Controlling: The ability to create a motivating climate, achieve teamwork, train, and develop, measure work in progress, and take corrective action.
• Decision Making: The ability to make decisions and the quality and timeliness of those decisions.
• Problem Solving: The ability to assess a problem, identify options or solutions, formulate a plan, execute the plan, and achieve and sustain positive outcomes.
• Embrace, support, and manage the business in accordance with Beacon's Mission and Core Values.

Education and Qualifications

• • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Social Work, Behavioral Analysis, Counseling or a related field.
  • Valid state license or certification (BCBA, LCSW, LSW, LPCC, LPC, PBSF).
  • Minimum of 1-2 years of clinical experience, may include practicum and internship experience.
  • Experience with both mentally ill and intellectually disabled adult populations is preferred.
  • Experience with complex, high intense/high frequency behaviors is required.
  • Approved by the state, federal, and local governmental entities to work within BSLS programs.
  • Maintains own mandatory training and certification requirements.
• • Required experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
  • Must possess a valid Driver's License.
  • Must pass a criminal background check.
  • Proficient in speaking, reading and writing the English language required.

Skills and Abilities

• • Must be able to communicate and function in an interdisciplinary team.
  • Strong computer skills utilizing various software programs and applications.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Ability to create professional employee communication materials.
  • Works well independently.
  • Demonstrated organizational skills and the ability to multitask and meet project deadlines.
  • Capable of working well with all levels of the organization.
  • A professional demeanor.
  • Ability to work with little daily supervision.

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