Licensed Clinician

Overview

Join a Team That Changes Lives

For more than 170 years, Elwyn has been leading the way in supporting children, teens, and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and behavioral health challenges. As a mission-driven nonprofit, we're here to create real change - helping people lead meaningful, fulfilling lives.

Now, we're looking for passionate team members to join us. Here, your work will change lives - including your own. You'll make an impact every day, find purpose in what you do, and grow in a career that truly matters.

At Elwyn, we take care of you while you care for others. We offer:

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefit Packages
• Earned Wage Access/On-Demand Pay
• Paid On-the-Job Training
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Career Advancement Opportunities and Growth
• Flexible Schedules
• Retirement Savings Plan

Join us and be a part of something bigger. Apply today.

Job Description

Elwyn seeks a Masters Level Clinician to serve as a member of a multidisciplinary team, utilizing your clinical skill and experience to assess, plan, develop, coordinate, and provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to clients under the clinical supervision of the team leader and assistant team leader. A team member equally shares the responsibility to perform various activities and interventions that support clients in the community. Must be licensed, LICSW, LCSW or LMHC or license eligible.

Salary: Up to $75k annually, sign-on bonus!!


ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Integrates the Prism Model for effective treatment of serious and persistent mental illness into everyday practice and intervention.
• Provides person-centered, strength-based, trauma-informed care
• Ensures that clients receive effective, understandable, and respectful care that is provided in a manner compatible with client's cultural beliefs and practices and preferred language
• Along with the team, on an ongoing basis, reviews the required outcomes to evaluate community tenure and independence.
• Provides service coordination for an assigned group of clients, including coordination and monitoring the activities of the ACT Team
• Assumes primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising the overall Community Service Plan in collaboration with the client and ITT; provides therapy utilizing evidence-based practices (i.e., CBT-P, CBT, DBT, CAMS, MI), symptom management, ensuring immediate changes are made in the Community Service Plan as clients' needs change; educate and support clients' families, and advocate for clients rights and preferences.
• Works with the team to complete a comprehensive assessment as an engagement tool and to understand and respect the client's views of the ways mental illness impacts their life and how they want to be supported in their process of recovery
• Utilizes evidence-based assessment tools that support matching a client's needs to their services
• In partnership with the client and team, develops the Treatment Plan within thirty days of the team finalizing the comprehensive assessment.
• Provides de-escalation techniques to aid the client (s) in managing a crisis, providing intervention to decrease risk, manage symptoms, and maintain safety
• Documents client progress, activities, and outreaches in the Electronic Health Record
• Practices engagement skills across the adult lifespan
• Practices a Housing First approach
• Support: provides practical help and support, advocacy, coordination, problem-solving, training, and supervision to help clients obtain the necessities of daily living; assist clients in finding and maintaining safe housing, coaches clients to learn and carry out ADLs, assist and support clients to perform household activities, including house cleaning and laundry, teach money-management skills, nutrition education, meal planning, grocery shopping, access transportation, help clients to have and efficiently use primary care, dentist, and other medical specialist, support clients with structuring their time (community resources, social and leisure activities, hobbies, etc.)
• Ongoing assessment, symptom education, direct clinical services
• Awareness of and offers a range of valuable community activities and linkages that support the client's Treatment Plan.
• Performs other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

EDUCATION

• Master's Degree

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years' experience in behavioral healthcare and working with individuals with mental health conditions preferred
• Preference will be given to candidates that meet the cultural and linguistic needs of the geographic area.
• LICSW, LCSW, LMHC or license eligible required
• Relevant Post-job Offer Testing/Conditions
• Knowledge and practice of FHR, DPH, and DMH policies, regulations, and standards.
• Demonstrates fidelity to the ACT Model
• Must possess a current, valid driver's license in state of residence, have a minimum of two (2) years of driving experience within the United States, and have an acceptable driving record. Additionally, employees required to drive as part of their job may need to successfully complete and pass an Elwyn Road Test before being authorized to drive.
• Participate in other FHR required/ recommended training according to the training calendar
• Prepares for and applies for required clinical license
• Meet or exceed professional development goals
• Ability to make contacts and establish relationships with internal and external supports that allow for the program to function within the more extensive system
• Ongoing education and training in culturally and linguistically appropriate service delivery

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Elwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Elwyn does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, pregnancy status, medical condition, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, sexual orientation or identity, age, national origin, citizenship, handicap status, marital or family status, mental or physical disability, perceived disability, military or veteran status, political activities or affiliations, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation.

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