Description
TITLE : Mental Health Clinician (Bilingual Spanish)
POSITION: Full-Time/ In-Person
SALARY: Unlicensed - $29.48/hr. - $31.36/hr. ( Licensed - $31.10/hr. - $33.09/hr.)
Morrison Child and Family Services : We are a Joint Commission and Sanctuary accredited non-profit organization that provides a comprehensive array of services to children, adolescents, and their families. As an agency, Morrison, its team members, and clients commit to the following values of trauma-informed care:

• Nonviolence - being safe and doing the right thing
• Emotional Intelligence - managing our feelings so we don't hurt ourselves or others
• Social Learning - respecting and sharing ideas of our teams
• Democracy - shared decision making whenever possible
• Open Communication - saying what we mean and not being mean when we say it
• Social Responsibility - everyone makes a contribution to the organizational culture
• Growth and Change - creating hope for our clients and ourselves
• Equity - Assuring all can survive and thrive

Position Summary
The Mental Health Clinician provides mental health assessments, with the ability to conduct a mental status examination, as well as provides ongoing individual and group counseling services, screens for human trafficking concerns, and provides crisis intervention services.
Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides mental health assessments for unaccompanied youth including best practice suicide risk assessments and flight risk assessments
• Provides ongoing individual and group counseling services and ability to conduct a mental status examination, and when appropriate, may complete a DSM diagnosis
• Provides required documentation, services and external communication for youth on their caseload
• Referrals for Psychiatric and Psychological services
• Develops and facilitates transition plans for clients per ORR guidelines
• May help supervise children and youth in milieu, on outings, and to appointments outside facility
• Coordinates with other service providers and participates in program development
• Attends outside workshops and agency trainings as part of professional development activities
• Adheres to program, agency and contract quality assurance standards
• Develops skills to work with diverse clientele from a multicultural perspective
• Participates in the on-call rotation
• Completes, timely and accurately, timesheets and other personnel/administrative records as required

Experience/Education Requirements

• Master's degree in social work with clinical experience in the program, or Master's degree in psychology, sociology, or other relevant behavioral science in which direct clinical experience is a program requirement
• Bi-lingual in Spanish and English, written, read and verbal required
• Licensure or licensed eligible preferred

Preferred Qualifications (not required)

• Experience working in an environment serving clients who are struggling with severe emotional and mental health related disorders
• Skills in assessing and treating disturbed adolescents
• Knowledge of Federal, State and agency regulations

Other Requirements

• Must pass criminal history check
• Language Testing for both English and Spanish language, when applicable
• Working at multiple ORR Program sites

Physical Requirements

• Position requires moving youth from different rooms in Milieu, checking on youth throughout Milieu, and transitioning activities with youth consistently
• We serve youth that can become escalated in behavioral circumstances, and this position will be required to participate in and lead de-escalation frequently and physically de-escalate or restrain occasionally. Proper training on techniques that are safe for youth and staff is provided at time of hire.

We are an Affirmative Action Plan Employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.
In compliance with our Affirmative Action Plan, Morrison uses E-Verify to determine employment eligibility after an offer is accepted.
Applications will be reviewed as received. Morrison reserves the right to make a hiring decision at any point during the posting period.
Morrison employees are offered a variety of benefits including Medical, Vision, Dental, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employer-Paid Life, Accidental Death and Dismemberment and Long-Term Disability, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
If your personal values align with our agency's vision and dedication to serving youth and families, please submit your rsum, application, and cover letter to www.morrisonkids.org/careers.