Job Details

Summary - The Child & Family Clinical Therapist provides individual or group therapy to mentally or emotionally disturbed child/adolescents and their families.  This professional collaborates with psychiatric and allied team members in assessment, diagnosing, treatment planning and intervention.  This position answers to the Child and Family Program Manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Provides comprehensive assessments.
• Reports to work on time as scheduled and at the location assigned.
• Assessments contain discussion of facts to allow for development of appropriate service plans.
• The clinician demonstrates the ability to provide mental status information in a comprehensive manner.
• Assessments give a clear picture of the client's treatment needs, and provide the information necessary to develop an individualized service plan.
• Psychological/psychosocial interpretations are complete and accurate. Information provided is in accordance with DSM diagnostic criteria.
• Provides treatment planning and review as related to client needs.
• Develops written individual service plans, quarterly reviews, and termination summaries on the basis of client needs.
• Practices Person Centered Planning principles.
• Service planning integrates assessments to provide meaningful and individual goals and objectives.
• Service reviews reflect the client's ongoing treatment needs and the development of additional necessary goals and objectives.
• Progress notes are related to goals and objectives listed in the treatment plan.
• The clinician completes necessary documentation in a timely manner.
• Assessments are completed in a timely and thorough manner. All assessments contain the documentation requested on the form.
• Assessments are completed within 30 days of the open date, and annually thereafter.
• Progress notes are completed after each contact.
• Service plans and reviews are completed within established timeframes.
• The therapist conducts individual, family, and/or group therapy.
• The therapist provides crisis intervention effectively.
• The clinical treatment recommendations are reflective of the client's identified problem areas.
• The therapist participates in clinical team meetings and coordinates team interventions.
• The therapist is able to develop treatment goals and objectives which are consistent with the client, and other clinical team members.
• The therapist consults with other team members when appropriate and integrates their input as appropriate.
• The therapist takes responsibility for assigned crisis coverage.
• The clinician has no substantiated recipient rights violations filed against him or her.
• Direct service time. The clinician maintains 85% direct service hours/month, unless job assignments given with supervisory approval require a variance to this expectation.
• The therapist participates in committees and assumes other tasks as requested.
• The therapist participates in organizational activities as requested.
• The therapist provides input into policy to improve services to clients.

Education AND Experience

• Masters degree in social work, psychology or related fields from an accredited college or university required.
• Preferred 2 years experience in working with mentally or emotional disturbed child/adolescent population.
• Ability to effectively treat consumers with mental illness using solution focus or time limited treatment modalities.

Credentialing, Licensure

• Registration with the State of Michigan as a Social Worker, Limited License in psychology or comparable certificate.

Skills AND ABILITIES

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to establish professional working relationships with all staff.
• Appropriately articulates the view of the agency when networking in the community.
• Has knowledge of diverse interventions (e.g., individual, and family therapies).
• Has knowledge of mental illness, as shown in his or her ability to educate clients to gain insight into illness.
• Has the ability to triage effectively.
• Demonstrates professional and ethical behavior.
• Continues to demonstrate proficiency in his or her professional practice by attending regular case conferences, in-services, and workshops, and by reading professional literature.

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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