Clinician - Youth Community Crisis Stabilization

Summary

The YCCS Clinician is responsible for crisis stabilization, therapeutic interventions, and providing treatment modalities aimed toward the youth's re-entry to the community.


YCCS is a short-term crisis stabilization unit for children and adolescents up to age 18. The primary function of YCCS is to provide short-term crisis stabilization, therapeutic intervention, and specialized programming in a staff secure environment with a high degree of supervision and structure. YCCS provides active treatment that includes restoration of functioning; strengthening the resources and capacities of the youth, family, and other natural supports; and ensuring a timely return to previous living environment.


AVAILABLE SHIFTS: SATURDAY & SUNDAY 9AM-5PM (some flexibility between 8AM-6PM)

Child and Family Services recognizes the power in Diversity and believes that Equity is a Human Right.

$1 per hour Language Differential! (eligible languages include: Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL)

Child & Family Services carefully considers a wide range of factors when determining compensation including, but not limited to, prior experience, education, certification(s), license(s), skills and expertise, location, internal equity and other factors that are job related and consistent with business need. Our goal is to support, reward and compensate the entire individual. Depending on role eligibility, your offer may include a bonus or other incentives. Therefore, final offer amounts may vary from the amount stated.

Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions

• Provide information to the youth and family about wellness, recovery, crisis self-management, and how to access wellness and recovery services in their community
• Primarily responsible for conducting comprehensive assessments inclusive of standardized assessment tools for suicide risk, brief crisis counseling, individualized risk management/safety planning, psychoeducation, discharge planning, and care coordination. The master's-level clinician will conduct and oversee individual, group, and family therapy
• Conduct a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment (within timeframes designated by program specifications), may include weekends or holidays (as identified by on call schedule) or as soon as the youth and family are able to participate in the process
• Make best efforts to offer flexible hours outside or normal business hours and on weekends when needed to accommodate families' schedules
• Identify current providers and collateral contacts to obtain more comprehensive information and insight into the youth and their family
• Assist in facilitating youth admissions and discharges
• Address precipitating events that led to the current admission
• Include recommendations that identify the clinical, social, and medical components needed to support the youth and parent/guardian in ensuring a safe return to home, school, and community.
• Participate as part of youth assigned multi-disciplinary treatment team (within timeframes designated by program specifications), review comprehensive assessment and psychiatric assessment and in collaboration with the youth and family identify an initial treatment plan (within timeframes designated by program specifications)
• Review and update treatment and discharge plan as appropriate at least every 24 hours, based on youth's individual progress.
• Specify the goals and actions needed to address the medical, social, therapeutic, educational, and other strengths and needs of the youth
• Identify strategies to support youth/family/guardian in reducing stressors that lead to YCCS
• Work with the youth/family to identify strategies for preventing future crises
• Coordinate with existing services providers, which may include Intensive Care Coordinators (ICC), In-Home Therapy (IHT), PCP/PCC, CBHC, school, and others
• Coordinate discharge planning with focus on identification of anticipated services that will facilitate and support the youth's rapid return to the community
• Participate in trainings as specified in performance specifications, (for example, UMass Clinical Assessment and Intervention training, dialectical behavioral therapy skills training, and cognitive behavioral therapy skills training)
• Perform clinical reviews and obtain insurance authorizations as needed
• Observe youths in structured milieu, provide supportive interventions to youths, and assist in behavioral de-escalation techniques, and/or supervision of youths as needed
• Utilize Massachusetts Behavioral Health Access (MABHA) website to update daily capacity as instructed, use website to locate other services for youth in assisting with aftercare planning and referrals
• Participate in the rotation of on-call responsibilities
• Work collaboratively within Acute Care Services to cross train and provide coverage as needed.
• All members of clinical team have shared responsibility for all youth on unit. Cases will be divided as needed to meet individual youth needs
• Participate in regularly scheduled supervision, staff meetings, staff development and training curricula

All 24-hour/Acute Care Services program staff are considered essential. Essential staff are defined as personnel who are expected to report to work as scheduled, regardless of holidays and/or during any emergency situation and/or agency closing (i.e. inclement weather) to ensure the ongoing operations of the program.

Due to the type of work and client needs, this position may need to work beyond a forty-hour work week. Additionally, essential staff may be required to remain on shift or work an additional shift until relief staff are available.

For overnight positions, staff are required to stay awake for the entirety of their shift.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Required Education and Experience

A completed Master's degree in Clinical Social Work, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Clinical Psychology, or other clinical licensure eligible degree program is required. This individual must be license eligible for an LICSW, LMHC, LMFT or LADC. Ability to work within a culturally diverse and inclusive environment.


Cultural Competency Qualifications:

• Awareness of personal attitudes, beliefs, biases, and assumptions about others
• Knowledge of the various dimensions of diversity, including gender, race, and ethnicity
• Acknowledging that people from other cultural groups may not share the same beliefs and practices or perceive experiences in the same way
• Cultural knowledge of key populations that will be served to address disparities in service delivery
• Demonstrates positive attitudes towards cultural differences by showing respect and openness towards people whose social and cultural background is different from one's own
• Demonstrates skills for communication and interaction across cultures, including the ability to recognize and manage personal behaviors, moods, and impulses to create an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming climate within the agency

Travel Required

Must have a valid driver's license and reliable transportation that meets CFS Driver Policy. Travel is required to provide services in different settings and to attend agency meetings, events, and trainings

Benefits:

• Benefit eligible at 20+ hours per week
• Medical - Harvard Pilgrim/HealthPlans Inc.
• Dental - Delta Dental of MA
• Vision - EyeMed
• Wellworks for You (Employee Wellness)
• 2 weeks' vacation accrued over 1st year, 3 weeks after 3 years, 4 weeks after 5 years and 5 weeks after 20 years
• 12 Sick Days, 10 Paid Holidays, and 2 Personal Days per year
• Tuition reimbursement - Up to $1,500 per calendar year
• Professional Licensure reimbursement (LICSW, LMHC)
• Flexible spending accounts - save on medical expenses and dependent care!
• 401K - CFS matches first 1% at 100%; 2%-6% of annual earnings are matched at 50%
• 100% Employer paid Life Insurance
• 100% Employer paid Long Term Disability and AD&D
• 24-hour travel assistance, mileage reimbursement, discounted Healthtrax gym membership, and employee appreciation events!

Child and Family Services, Inc. values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages applicants from the BIPOC, LGBTQ+, AAPI, Hispanic, Latinx and Veteran communities to apply for employment. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, gender, sex,( including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy) disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.