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Our Mission:
The Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento is committed to positively impacting the lives of children, youth, and families affected by abuse, neglect, behavioral health issues, and trauma in California.
The Children’s Receiving Home is an emergency shelter dedicated to improving the lives of the children we serve. We strive to recruit qualified, committed individuals who share in our Agency’s Mission to provide an exceptional standard of quality care and support. We offer a full range of benefits to our employees.
Position Summary:
We are now accepting applications for the Clinician position. This is a salaried, exempt position.
The Clinician is responsible for providing individual, family and group therapy to clients in the Outpatient Program at CRH. DBT knowledge and/or experience preferred. The Clinician works closely with county social workers, parents and team members, consulting and collaborating on client’s progress and treatment plans. The Clinician will also serve as a program consultant to the shelter program.
The Clinician is responsible for, but not limited to, the following:
- Providing individual, group, and family therapy for each client
- Assessing clients’ needs and level of functioning including a bio psycho-social assessment of all clients referred to the case load.
- Providing crisis counseling to children/families as necessary.
- Writing safety, behavioral, and treatment plans.
- Scheduling and coordinate therapy sessions.
- Providing clinical interventions for teachers, parents, and other caregivers to generalize skills in other environments.
- Meet with clients for individual, group and/or family therapy sessions.
- Provide collateral parties with information to best meet the client’s needs as necessary.
- Assess, determine and make a referral when special services or care are needed for a child (i.e. medication evaluation, psychiatric hospitalization, in-home services or psychological testing, etc.).
- Write daily/weekly progress notes for each therapy session and mental health service.
- Complete appropriate mental health documentation, including but not limited to, client plans performance outcomes, progress reports, health questionnaires, and termination reports as required.
- Continuously review charts for new and/or relevant information concerning clients.
- Prepare and maintain charts in accordance with audit requirements.
- Perform Utilization Reviews as assigned.
- Attend clinical, school, planning and discharge meetings etc. to consult with clinical and program staff.
- Attend weekly supervision meetings with therapy supervisor if unlicensed, to comply with California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) licensing requirements.
- Licensed Therapists who have met the California BBS requirements to provide supervision, may provide weekly individual and/or group supervision for unlicensed clinicians so they may obtain licensing hours.
- Attend external training/conferences to meet licensing requirements and keep up to date with current information and developments.
- Present information gathered at conferences at clinical meetings and staff in-services/training as appropriate.
- Attend Med. reviews as needed for clients receiving medication.
Qualifications:
- Possession of a Master’s Degree from an accredited school of Social Work or other graduate program in Psychology, Counseling or Marriage, Family and Child Counseling.
- Licensed Clinicians must be registered with the California BBS as an MFT or LCSW.
- If unlicensed, registration with the California BBS as an ASW or MFT intern is required. Must receive MFT, LCSW license within six years of initial registration with the California BBS as an intern to meet Sacramento County contract requirements.
- Experience working in an inpatient or residential clinical setting is desired.
- Two years experience working with infant/toddlers, children, adolescents and families with emotional problems is required.
For more information on this position please visit our website:
http://www.crhkids.org/careers If you are interested in this position, please apply through our website:
http://www.crhkids.org/pod/click-here-apply-position-us
Or submit your resume and cover letter.
If the hiring manager determines that you have the qualifications they are looking for, they may give you a call for an interview, otherwise, we will keep your resume/application on file for 6 months.
All positions require a DOJ background check, drug & physical test, valid California Drivers License, acceptable DMV record and that you be 21 years of age or older.
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