Clinician - School Based (The Space)

Position Title: Clinician – School Based Youth Services Program
Reports To: Program Manager of SBYSP
Broad Function: Provide mental health counseling services to the students in the host school.

Core Values:

• CULTURAL PROFICIENCY: Articulates and applies historical context of racism and understands the current reality of consumers and communities of color in order to support racial equity. Actively demonstrates a commitment to supporting equity and inclusion, and serves as an advocate with colleagues, partners, and communities to meet the Agency's goal of becoming an Antiracist Culturally Inclusive Organization.
• RACIAL EQUITY ADVOCATE: Recognizes, supports, and engages in dismantling institutional racism. Partners with, and is accountable to stakeholders, including children, families, and communities of color.
• RACIAL EQUITY MINDSET: Demonstrates awareness of biases, internalized racial superiority and oppression. Leads with a racial equity lens and actively uses the racial equity tool in meaningful ways.
• TRANSFORMATIONAL VALUES: Contributes to valuable and positive, antiracist transformation in individuals, organizations, and social systems in an effort to actively progress across the antiracist multicultural institution continuum. Is able to foster a sense of community and shared purpose via collaboration and cooperation with others inside and outside Family Connections. Embodies the principles and practices that form the Agency's culture. Operates from an abundance mentality that recognizes opportunities and is optimistic and realistic about the future.
• Demonstrates cultural competence through an awareness of and sensitivity towards Agency's clients' and coworkers' cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
• Committed to the value of a nurturing family as the ideal environment for a child and believes in the capacity of people to grow and change.
• Works from a strengths-based perspective.
• Recognizes that consumers come first and responds to consumers appropriately.
• Knows and adheres to all FC Policies and Procedures. 

Professionalism:

• Values and participates in the Team as a proactive member.
• Respects others' professional opinions and tolerates a range of feelings. 
• Able to give and receive constructive criticism.

Supervision:

• Attends supervision consistently and comes prepared.
• Able to receive feedback and to learn from it.
• Has insight about self (i.e., strengths and weaknesses) and utilizes that knowledge toward growth and change.

Job Location: 

The Space | Orange, NJ

Job Responsibilities:

The school-based Clinician at the "The Space" is responsible for providing culturally competent, trauma-informed individual, group and family therapeutic services to students and families. The Clinician provides crisis intervention services, collaborates with other providers and school staff as needed. This Clinician is responsible for participating in relevant community meetings and/or groups, attend supervision consistently, weekly team meetings, monthly case conferences and quality improvement sub-committee meetings. The Clinician should have experience working within a school setting. The Clinician should be a culturally competent individual who will work in alignment with the Family Connection' mission.  This is a 12 month position, Monday-Friday.

• Works collaboratively with school staff, community partners, and caregivers to manage counseling referrals
• Provide culturally competent, trauma-informed individual, group, and family therapeutic services to students and families
• Advocates, coordinates, and maintains on-going contact with other providers involved
• Provide crisis intervention services
• Utilize the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale when screening individuals for suicidal ideation
• Attend school re-entry meetings after a student has been sent out for an emergency screening as schedule allows
• Plans and co-facilitates monthly Parent/Caregiver Support Group (evening group)
• Assist Team in providing prevention programming to students throughout the school year
• Completes documentation as per agency and program guidelines in Netsmart and MIS
• Attend agency, school, and local committee meetings
• Demonstrates the ability to utilize appropriate interventions in both non-crisis and crisis situations
• Supervises after school recreation, activities, and trips as needed
• Assist Team in planning for and supervising Summer Program
• Assist Team in annual QI Project
• Consults with clinical and program supervisor regarding termination prior to discharge
• Completes termination paperwork and appropriate discharge planning in a timely fashion
• Tolerates a range of feelings, affect, and personal presentation without judgment

Qualifications

Education: Master's in Social Work or equivalent field

Certification: LSW, LPC or state licensure specific to degree.

Experience: Providing mental health services with diverse populations in an urban setting.

Preferred: Experience working with adolescents in a high school setting.

Work Environment/Physical Demands: The individual must possess the ability to perform work that requires frequent standing, bending, reaching, squatting, kneeling, moving, and lifting of up to or in excess of 50 pounds.

*The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job or that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function.

Family Connections is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to excellence. Employment offers are made on the basis of qualifications and without regard to race, sex, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability, age veteran status, or sexual orientation or other protected classes under the State and Federal law.