What are the responsibilities and job description for the Bilingual Mental Health Clinician position at Casa Esperanza?
Job Description
Position : Bilingual Mental Health / Substance Abuse Clinician
Department : Familias Unidas
Reports To : Director of Behavioral Health Operations
Agency Summary : Casa Esperanza, Inc. is a bilingual / bicultural behavioral health treatment provider serving Boston and the Merrimack Valley. Our mission is to empower individuals and families to recover from addiction, trauma, mental illness and other chronic medical conditions; overcome homelessness; and achieve health and wellness through comprehensive, integrated care. Casa Esperanza has an operating budget of $6.3 million and more than $9 million in assets.
Job Summary : The Mental Health Clinician will assist the organization in ensuring the provision of quality care in an outpatient mental health clinic serving individuals with co-occurring disorders. The Mental Health Clinician will primarily provide support to clients by utilizing client's strengths, needs, abilities and preferences in completing assessments and to develop individualized service plans. The Mental Health Clinician will also provide group treatment services using evidence-based practices, as needed.
Essential Functions : Client Care
- Provides crisis intervention counseling, with referrals to ongoing mental health services when needed.
- Utilizes case conferencing and the program team to coordinate and ensure client treatment plans are effective and appropriate.
- Engages external and internal service providers to better meet clients' needs
- Provides group treatment using evidence-based practices including Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Relapse Prevention, Relational and Psychodynamic therapy, etc., as needed.
- Participate in weekly clinical meetings to provide updates and assist in the decision making related to treatment planning and implementation.
- Functions as a resource to the rest of the team on mental health related issues, and assist in the various components of this program.
- Provides backup clinical coverage to the program to include staff supervision and program oversight.
- Respond to client grievances and complaints
- Provide on-call coverage, as needed.
Administrative
Qualifications :
Ability to meet the physical requirements and training requirements of the position
