Clinical Consultant

The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) is a non-profit organization established in 1976 to serve immigrants, refugees, and the broader community in Portland, Oregon. Our mission is to welcome, serve and empower refugees, immigrants and people across cultures and generations to reach their full potential. Find out more at www.irco.org.

POSITION:                             Clinical Consultant 

JOB CLASS/GRADE:             On Call/Casual; Grade 10 

WAGE:                                    Starting at $40.80 per hour based on experience  

FLSA; EEO; WC:                     Non-Exempt; Professional; 8864 

LOCATIONS:                         IRCO Main Office, 10301 NE Glisan St Portland OR 97220, 

                                                Hybrid schedule 

FTE; FT/PT; STATUS:           Casual without Benefits 

NUMBER OF POSITIONS:  (1) 

APPLY AT:                             www.irco.org  

STATUS:                                On call/ Casual without Benefits 

PROGRAM(S):                      Foster Care 

SECTOR/DIVISION:             Home Visiting / Early Learning   

REQUIREMENTS:                 Oregon Department Human Services (ODHS) Background check, License Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) Required  

Program Summary
IRCO’s Foster Care program provides home visiting services to foster parents referred by ODHS and living in the City of Portland and have foster children/youth in their care who are ages 0–24-years. 

Position Summary
The clinical consultant provides clinical consultation and case-focused guidance to the IRCO Foster Care team. Serving as an advisor within the Home Visiting sectors. This position ensures that frontline family advocates navigating complex; high-needs child welfare cases have a professional space to process their work and manage occupational burnout. By blending advanced clinical insights with a commitment to fairness in access and respectful cross-context service delivery, the clinical consultant helps staff identify family safety risks, promotes ethical case practices.   

Essential Functions 

Provide a minimum of monthly individual and group consultations to Foster Care team members. 

Reflective consultation groups include but are not limited to: 

• Clinical Consultation: Deliver a minimum of monthly individual and group clinical consultations to Foster Care team members utilizing reflective practice frameworks. 
• Staff Wellness & Stress Support: Provide a dedicated professional space that encourages self-reflection, behavioral regulation, and processing of stress-related impacts or compassion of fatigue. 
• Risk Assessment & Case Guidance: Guide direct-service staff in identifying and mitigating safety risks when working with complex, high-needs families involved in the child welfare system. 
• Clinical Self-Awareness Facilitation: Help staff recognize their internal professional responses (transference/ counter transference) to intense case dynamics and how these parallels impact their fieldwork. 
• Resource & Support Coordination: Offer professional mental health and emotional well-being guidance, coping strategies, and appropriate service referrals specifically for Foster Care team members. 
• Administrative Oversight: Prepare and submit concise monthly consultation summaries and trend reports to the Division Director while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries and confidentiality. 
• Strategic Collaboration: Partner proactively with the Division Director to address emerging program needs, institution-driven challenges, or crisis interventions as directed. 

 Secondary Functions 

• Engage fully in required reading, including, monthly and weekly IRCO All-Staff emails, newsletters, memorandums, and communications 
• Participation and attendance in IRCO All-Staff Meetings either in-person or virtually, as appropriate, is required 

 Education & Experience MINIMUM JOB SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Master’s degree in social work 
• Minimum 4 years of work experience in a clinical field using Trauma-Informed principles, working w/families involved w/child welfare. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills 
• Strong interpersonal skills 
• Communicate effectively in a professional manner verbally and in writing 
• Training or experience facilitating groups and managing group dynamics 

Physical, Mental, & Environmental Requirements  

• Hybrid 
• Physical: Position requires little physical effort such as lifting, carrying, or constant movement, but does allow for movement needed to complete work tasks. 
• Mental: There is regular variation in tasks, and the job holder must decide which tasks to complete as well as the order in which tasks are completed.  
• Environment: This level has a work environment that is well protected, with virtually no hazards or obstacles. There is very little element of personal risk or hazard. job conditions are stable, usually well managed, and very comfortable. 
• Schedule: The work schedule occasionally fluctuates based on organization or customer needs. This fluctuation may occur with or without prior notice. 

Supervisory Responsibilities 

Positions at this level are not responsible for any supervisory functions, or responsibilities, but may occasionally be asked to orient and/or train new employees or volunteers. 

Knowledge 

Education: Master's Degree (5)  

Experience: 3-4 years of experience is required (5)  

Licensure, Certification: LCSW required 

Computers: All positions at IRCO require use of a computer and experience working with Microsoft Products including but not limited to Microsoft 365, Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Teams. In addition, this position specifically requires CRM/Apricot 360.  

Skills 

Communication: Regular communication inside and outside the organization to exchange ideas and gather information (5) 

Creativity: Regular need for redesign of a single focus process or procedure is needed (3) 

Effort 

Mental: There is regular variation in tasks and the job holder must decide which tasks to complete as well as the order in which tasks are completed (3) 

Physical: Positions at this level require minimal physical effort such as light lifting, carrying or movement, etc.  Physical capability involves use of office or equipment where some agility and hand eye coordination is needed (2) 

Responsibility 

Impact and Influence: Positions at this level have a minimal need or ability to analyze problem or concepts or make decisions on the information. Positions at this level have minimal impact and influence on organization operations, programs, expense or budgetary outcomes. (2)

Work Independence: Positions perform with a high degree of independence. Work is reviewed on an as-needed basis. Errors or omissions may not be identified internally. Guidance is available upon request. Work requires extensive decision-making (5) 

Planning: Positions at this level must consider own work and work of others.  Planning processes will include determination of issues or obstacles and preferred courses of action.  Ability to forecast for the near future (six to twelve months) is required (3) 

Supervision: Positions at this level are not responsible for any supervisory functions or responsibilities, but may occasionally be asked to orient and/or train new employees or volunteers. (1) 

Working Conditions 

Environment: This level has a work environment that is well protected, with virtually no hazards or obstacles. There is very little element of personal risk or hazard. Job conditions are stable, usually well managed, and very comfortable. (1) 

Schedule: The work schedule occasionally fluctuates based on organization or customer needs. This fluctuation may occur with or without prior notice. (3) 

RCO is a very employee-friendly workplace and offers great benefit packages to our staff:

• Many flexible working arrangements and schedule
• Amazing opportunity to work with people who come from all over the world
• Work that helps your community 
• 3 to 6 weeks of PTO per year 
• 401k match of over 100% on first 5%, immediate vesting 
• 3% match for student loans or college savings 
• 12 Paid Holidays and 1 Floating Holiday
• Medical & Dental insurance options with 90% coverage for employee AND Families, no deductibles
• Employer Paid Life, Short term, and Long-term Disability Insurance 
• Flexible spending accounts

Required Engagement 

Engage fully in recommended professional development, as well as other assigned or required training activities. This engagement can also include participation in optional activities that embrace IRCO’s mission, vision, and values-based initiatives. 

IRCO is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any characteristics protected by State and Federal law. We will make reasonable accommodations to meet our obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state disability laws.