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What You’ll Be Doing

You will provide ongoing clinical supervision and clinically informed support to foster care staff, youth and their families referred to and/or placed in the program. The Clinical Supervisor will provide expertise and guidance while adhering to agency policies, relicensing to ensure that clinical needs of the foster youth in the program are being met, which includes timely and appropriate services while in the program.

Hybrid Role, 20% Remote Work.

Your Main Priorities

While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:

•    Facilitates quarterly treatment plan meetings to ensure the youth’s needs are being met.

•    Provides supervision to foster care staff to ensure foster parents adhere to treatment plan and program expectations (i.e., evaluate and review each child/youth’s plan or care, etc.).

•    Conducts and provides diagnostic assessments for foster youth as needed.

•    Monitors, maintains, and tracks timeliness of required assessment for each foster youth; will review and sign off on assessment (i.e., CANS, OHIOS, ASQs, etc.)

•    Attend and participate in treatment plan team meetings to ensure treatment plans are being followed.

•    Maintains confidential case records in accordance with agency and legal guidelines.

•    Transports clients according to state and agency transportation policies.

Skills & Abilities

•    Master of Social Work or related field required.

•    Rhode Island Department of Health licensure LMFT, LMHC or LICSW required.

•    Minimum 3 years’ experience working with children and families required; experience working in the foster care system strongly preferred.

•    Strong organizational, critical thinking and time-management skills.

•    Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.

•    Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.

•    Bilingual in Spanish preferred.

•    Collaboration and teamwork.

•    Leadership.

•    Must have a valid driver’s license, proof of auto insurance and car registration.

•    Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.

•    The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.

Travel Requirements

Site location: Providence

Statewide travel required

Physical Requirements

Direct Service Staff:

This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:

•    Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.

•    Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.

•    Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.

Affirmative Action

Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.