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Position Overview:

The Mental Health Clinician, under close supervision, is responsible for:

+ Formulating and implementing appropriate treatment and permanency plans for children and families on their caseload.

+ Providing clinical input into the therapeutic milieu to ensure the most appropriate care for each child.

+ Documenting all interventions and completing all required reports and contacts in a timely and professional manner.

+ Coordinating all treatment provided to each resident to ensure appropriateness, timeliness, and effectiveness of interventions.

+ Providing direct Individual Therapy, Family Therapy, and Group Therapy Sessions utilizing DBT / ITM and Trauma Focused Therapeutic Interventions

+ Remain up to date on training as related to CSEC and provide training in this area as necessary

+ Billing through OLP as needed

+ Other duties as assigned.

Position Qualifications:

Master’s Degree in Social Work Required. A Minimum of 2 Years of prior Social Work Experience. LMSW Required. Bilingual Spanish Required. Experience in child welfare and residential preferred. Ability to function successfully on interdisciplinary treatment team. Driver’s license. Excellent written and verbal skills including ability to successfully manage multiple tasks. Experience and training in Commercially Sexually Exploited Children, Safe Harbor, and Human Trafficking preferred. Training and/or experience in implementing Dialectic Behavioral Therapy or other Trauma Focused therapeutic models preferred.

The Children’s Village does not discriminate against any employee, prospective employee or contractor because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic predisposition, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction history or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.