Clinician

Tides Family Services is a nonprofit organization that is committed to providing comprehensive support and resources to children, adolescents, and families facing various challenges. The overall mission of Tides is to provide services and supports that allow youth to live in a community-based setting. An "Agency Without Walls" our services are delivered in homes, communities, schools...wherever our youth are.   

Position Summary: As a Clinician, you will play a crucial role in assessing and evaluating the case management needs of clients and family services. Reporting to the Clinical Director, you will perform bio-psychosocial assessment interviews, collaborate with integrated teams to develop treatment goals, provide counseling services, and maintain crisis and trauma counseling to ensure client and family safety. Your responsibilities will also include ensuring quality service metrics are met, supporting activities and programs that uphold professional boundaries and cultural sensitivity, and empowering families to make stable commitments to their children.

Essential Functions:

• Assess for and evaluate case management needs of clients and family services.
• Performs a bio-psychosocial assessment interview with client, family, and/or significant other according to agency policy and standards.
• Work collaboratively with integrated team of caseworkers, behavioral assistants and other clinicians to develop, review and evaluate treatment goals, provide resources, advocacy, perform routine assessments and build relationships with clients and families.
• Provide in-home and community-based counseling by addressing referral behaviors and measuring progress specified timeframes.
• Maintain crisis and trauma counseling and other services to help ensure client and family safety.
• Ensure quality service case metrics are met through ongoing analysis, case review, daily ECHO reporting, and accuracy of data entry into TFS ECHO platform or other reporting measures.
• Support activities, services and programs that uphold NASW professional boundaries and are culturally sensitive to clients and families.
• Empower families to make stable commitments to children by providing counseling and coordinating reunification efforts led by DCYF.
• Maintain a high degree of professionalism in the community, with clients, schools, courts and with referring agencies seeking to build and sustain positive relationships.
• Attend all required program meetings including weekly supervision, monthly clinical group supervision, tracking rundown, staff meetings, and other meetings scheduled by supervisor.
• Maintain weekly service delivery requirements with clients and families.

• Master’s degree from an accredited school in social work – Required.
• LCSW/LICSW/LMHC – Preferred.
• Valid driver’s license and registered/inspected vehicle – Required.
• Bilingual; English, Spanish, Portuguese, Creole – Preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 2-4 years’ experience in human services, healthcare, and other non-profit agencies.
• Demonstrates a safe, strengths-based approach while continuously using every day.
• Behavior opportunities to teach, guide, and support youth and families with their goals and challenges to remain in the home and in their communities.
•  Capacity for behavior management utilizing counseling techniques, program structure, guidelines and crisis intervention and to use metrics to ensure accountability.
• Strong crisis management, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills, particularly when working with youth of all ages.
• Managed in-home (remote/telehealth during COVID-19) and community strengths-based services to clients and families.
• Skilled in building relationships with internal teams, stakeholders, clients and families, schools, law enforcement and other community resources.

 Salary Range: $60,000-$70,000

The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required to satisfactorily perform essential duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Tides Family Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values our diverse workforce and encourages all mission driven candidates to apply.  We are a PBN Best Place to Work recipient, a Safe Zone Certified Employer, and a Veteran Friendly Employer. Join our team!