Clinician

Description

FLSA Status: Exempt 

Salary Range: $65,586- $72,145 per year

A hiring bonus of $5,000 is available to external candidates with $2,500 paid upon hire and $2,500 paid upon completing 6 months of employment with St. Francis House.

There is a tuition reimbursement program of $25,000 that will be paid in increments of $5,000 at the end of each year of employment for the first five years of employment.

Job Summary:

The Clinician’s role is to provide low-barrier, “on-demand” and ongoing individual and group substance use disorder treatment for SFH guests. The Clinician will be a key part of operationalizing the agency’s plan to embed an intensive outpatient treatment plan into SFH’s menu of treatment services. This Clinician will work collaboratively with an integrated team of providers at SFH to stabilize our guests in the areas of housing, income, and behavioral health.

Essential Duties:

• Ensures a highly responsive model of care that welcomes people into treatment “on demand” with limited barriers to access. 
• Actively conducts in-reach and engagement in our milieu spaces throughout the building to facilitate guest access to treatment. 
• Uses evidence-based techniques to provide daily group treatment in an intensive outpatient setting. 
• Actively engages and supports SFH guests through weekly individual meetings.  
• Works within a holistic care model, collaborating closely with guests’ care teams both within the agency and externally. 
• Conducts and documents intakes, assessments, treatment plans, and maintains timely clinical notes. 
• Incorporates low threshold case management support within counseling services, including both external and internal referrals for supports around housing stabilization and income maximization.  
• Works closely with the behavioral health and medical team at our partner Boston Healthcare for the Homeless, including coordination with psychiatry and the OBAT team as needed.
• Infuses a person-centered, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented approach in accordance with our Philosophy of Care.   
• Adheres to agency code of conduct. 
• Performs other duties as assigned. 

Requirements

• Masters-level clinician, LICSW track preferred. LMHC will be considered. 
• Experience providing SUD treatment utilizing evidenced based treatment models, including group curriculum. 
• Experience providing treatment to people who have lived in extreme poverty and have co-occurring disorders. Experience with highly vulnerable, high-barrier individuals and awareness of issues common to those who are experiencing homelessness. 
•  Bilingual (Spanish) preferred.
• Lived experience with homelessness and or recovery a plus.

 SFH is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where all staff can reach their fullest potential. We welcome everyone who has lived experience of homelessness and/or recovery, and those who have faced historic barriers to competitive employment, in particular Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and those who are multi-lingual or multi-cultural and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these duties.