What are the responsibilities and job description for the Child/Adolescent Behavioral Health Clinician position at FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC?
We are seeking a Child/Adolescent Behavioral Health Clinician to join our team!
Job purpose
Responsible for providing behavioral (BH) health care to children and adolescents in an integrated community health clinic. Will provide evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment to children and their families. Will provide treatment including individual, and/or group therapy and brief substance abuse counseling for children and adolescents, and/or family therapy for families, at FHCHC, or will provide appropriate referrals to other community child and adolescent BH providers.
Duties and responsibilities
The Child/Adolescent Behavioral Health Clinician for Integrated Care is a liaison to pediatricians in a preeminent academic medical center. Typical duties include but are not limited to:
- Facilitate warm handoffs to pediatricians
- Provide mental and BH treatment to children and adolescents in an integrated community healthcare clinic
- Evaluate and diagnose mental, emotional, developmental and behavioral di?culties in children, as well as family dysfunction based on clinical standards of practice
- Work in close partnership with the primary care clinical teams
- Conduct patient screening using standardized tools
- Formulate treatment plans and reviews
- Provide treatment, including individual, group, and/or family therapy, and some substance abuse counseling when necessary
- Provide acute triage services to the primary care clinical teams
- Report to DCF when necessary if neglect or abuse is suspected
- Provide clinical services that are strength based and client centered to children and their families.
- Coordinate with other clinical and social service providers, care coordinators, and patient navigators
- Document all aspects of clinical care in the EHR and in a timely manner
- Participate in professional activities such as: continuing education activities, clinical conferences, meetings with representatives of community groups when required to do so
- Ensure patient con?dentiality at all times
- Perform other necessary duties as required by FHCHC to achieve the goal of providing high quality health care
