Bilingual Lead Clinician - Seton Home

Description

Seton Home About Us:

Seton Home is a special and safe place for pregnant and parenting teen mothers to heal following trauma, abuse or neglect. From the moment arrival, dedicated professionals guide our mothers through healing and toward happy, healthy relationships with their babies to break the cycle of abuse and neglect. While in our care, mothers receive safe shelter, compassionate counseling, quality education, parent education, and an opportunity to thrive as a family.

Summary:

The Lead Clinician will be responsible overseeing the clinical and parenting services provided at Seton Home, to include but not limited to individual, family, and group therapy. The Lead Clinician will conduct and oversee assessments and is responsible for the development and implementation of therapeutic treatment plans. The Lead Clinician will offer recommendations for client’s permanency planning. The Lead Clinician is directly supervised by the Program Director or designee and is subject to work overtime and be on-call for clients and staff. Maintains necessary client records, provides liaison with referral sources and providers. The clinician will assist in discharge planning and other duties as assigned. The clinician will follow all Seton Home policies regarding reporting abuse and neglect.

Position Responsibilities:

· *Actively participating in case staffings and stakeholder meetings and following up with recommendations;

· Compiling, preparing, submitting and maintaining accurate records, files, forms, statistics and additional information in accordance with agency policy, DFPS Minimum Standards and ORR Policy;

· *Ensuring mental health services are completed within required timeframes and in accordance with agency policy, TDFPS Minimum Standards and ORR Policy;

· *Reviewing and approving assessments and progress notes for UAC;

· *Completing and submitting reports within required timeframes;

· *Train new clinical staff;

· Conduct intake interviews and assess client mental health as needed;

  · As a Seton Home employee, attendance and successful completion of a 10-day New Employee Orientation is mandated for the position. The inability to meet this requirement will conclude employment with the Agency.

 Other duties as assigned by Director, Senior Director or Vice President.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

The Lead Clinician is responsible for the direct supervision of Seton Home’s Clinicians and Parenting staff. The Lead Clinician ensures that services are provided in accordance with the agency's policies and procedures, TDFPS Minimum Standards, Office of Refugee Resettlement- Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services National Care Standards, and other stakeholders. The Lead Clinician is supervised by Emergency Shelter Program Director.

Competencies:

Communication           Ability to effectively share information and ideas of various degree of difficulty and sensitivity through  

                                       different means of communication and to diverse audiences. (Verbal and/or written)

Critical Thinking          Ability to actively and skillfully process and generate information and belief using a set of core skills – analysis,  

                                      evaluation, inference, deductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning.

Motivational                Ability to enhance others’ commitment to their work and energize others via one-on-one and / or group 

                                      presentations.

Integrity / Honesty     Ability to conduct self in ways that are in concert with the organization’s standard of conduct when advocating 

                                      for and influencing others and executing responsibilities.

Leadership                  Ability to exhibit behavior and skills that contribute to superior performance by motivating others to become 

                                      engaged and take action.

Requirements

`Minimum Qualifications:

• Education
  • Master’s degree in social work, 2 years of postgraduate direct service delivery experience.
  • or master’s degree or Ph.D. in psychology, sociology, or other relevant behavioral science in which clinical experience is a program requirement, plus 2 years of postgraduate direct service delivery experience.
  • or bachelor’s degree plus 5 years’ clinical employment experience in the behavioral sciences.
• Experience
  • Master’s degree in social work, 2 years of postgraduate direct service delivery experience.
  • or master’s degree or Ph.D. in psychology, sociology, or other relevant behavioral science in which clinical experience is a program requirement, plus 2 years of postgraduate direct service delivery experience.
  • or bachelor’s degree plus 5 years’ clinical employment experience in the behavioral sciences.
  • Preferred 2 years Supervisory Experience.
  • Minimum of Supervisory Experience.
• License and Credentials
  • Be licensed to provide clinical services in the State where the care provider is located.
  • Reliable transportation.
  • Valid driver license.
  • Valid vehicle insurance.
• Submit to a state and federal background check, Child abuse and neglect registry check, and Tuberculosis screening.
• Be physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of performing assigned tasks and have the skills necessary to perform essential duties and responsibilities.

Able to show proof of immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases transmitted by the respiratory route if working directly with unaccompanied children.

• Varicella: two doses of varicella vaccine (at least 4 weeks apart) OR born in the United States before 1980 with a reported history of chickenpox (verified by an adult present at the time of illness) OR titers indicating varicella immunity OR documentation from healthcare provider verifying previous infection.
• MMR: two doses of MMR vaccine (at least 4 weeks apart) OR titers indicating immunity to all three diseases.
• DTaP or TDap: Complete primary vaccination series. If primary vaccination series completed in childhood, one TDaP dose in adulthood.
• Influenza: one dose annually during flu season.

Minimum Knowledge and Skills:

• Extensive working knowledge of TDFPS Minimum Standards, and Office of Refugee Resettlement- Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services National Care Standards.
• Possess therapeutic sensitivity to the service population cultural and socio-economic characteristics.
• Experience with computer software and MS Office (i.e. MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and OneDrive);
• A solid grasp of managing multi-disciplinary teams and progressive management.
• Must be detail oriented, organized, self-motivated, work well independently and on a team.
• Must have good written and verbal skills.
• Must have good critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• *Bilingual: Fluent in English/Spanish with regards to reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension of the spoken language.

Travel Requirements:

Travel requirements for the position includes 10% local and 10% overnight.

Physical Requirements:

The position requires the following physical demands in the frequency noted.

C = Constantly (2/3 or more of the time) O = Occasionally (Up to 1/3 of the time)

F = Frequently (From 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) R = Rarely (less than on hour per week)

Physical Demands                                                   Frequency

Lifting up to 50 pounds                                             O

Reach above shoulder height                                   O

Sitting                                                                            F

Reach below shoulder height                                   O  

Walking                                                                         F

Driving                                                                          O

Running                                                                        O

Stooping                                                                       O

Standing                                                                       F

Pushing                                                                        O

Bending waist (forward or sideways)                      O

Pulling                                                                          O

Balancing                                                                     O

Talking                                                                          O

Squatting                                                                     O

Hearing                                                                        O

Climbing                                                                      O

Crawling                                                                      O

Repetitive motions                                                    O

Disclaimer:

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job description or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g., emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, etc.) ** This is a Grant funded position and salary is dependent on funding availability. Position can be eliminated at any time because of lack of funding to support this position.**

Seton Home is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To view this and other employment opportunities please visit our website at www.setonhomesa.org. You must apply through our website and complete the application and upload your resume. No phone calls please. If you are chosen for an interview, you will be contacted.