Emergency Room Diversion Clinician

Be the change!  We are seeking dedicated team members to join a creative, flexible, and intensive community- based team striving to eliminate emergency room boarding for kids and instead to do what it takes to keep them safe at home with their families.  In this position you will be able to convey your passion for helping others by working with at-risk youth and their families! JRI’s Community Based Services division provides care to ensure that families and their children with significant behavioral, emotional, and mental health needs obtain the services necessary for success in the home, school, and community. This position will specifically entail working with the Department of Mental Health, in our Emergency Department Diversion program. You will work intensively to meet the unique needs of individuals and/or families through assessment, safety planning, coaching, psychoeducation, skill building, and connections to informal and formal supports. This is a salaried position and does not have a unit-based productivity requirement.  

• YOU will be able to provide a variety of community-based services including home and community-based family therapy, in-home therapy services, therapeutic training and support services, case management, crisis intervention, treatment planning, and assessments.
• YOU will serve as a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team including a BCBA, Family Partner, and Therapeutic support specialist, that works together to find the most effective methods of guiding and supporting clients in the community.
• YOU will design and deliver interventions to enhance and improve the family’s capacity to improve the youth’s functioning in the home and community and may prevent the need for the youth’s admission to an inpatient hospital, psychiatric residential treatment facility or other treatment setting.
• YOU will develop a structured, consistent, strength-based therapeutic relationship between a clinician and the youth and family for the purpose of treating the youth’s behavioral health needs, including improving the family’s ability to provide effective support for the youth to promote their healthy functioning within the family.
• YOU will provide culturally competent, trauma informed, confidential clinical services that place the needs of the young person at the center of your practice.
• YOU will provide consultation to collaterals including schools and medical service providers.

• Be who you are! JRI is committed to creating a workplace built on respect, collaboration, and opportunity, where every employee is valued and supported in making a meaningful impact.
• Salary Range: $64,000- $71,000
• Access to our excellent Blue Cross medical and Delta Dental benefits.
• Retirement benefits including 401K matched up to $800 a year and pension after 5 years of employment.
• Professional development opportunities such as tuition reimbursement up to almost $4000 per year and discounted tuition rates to select partnership colleges and universities!
• Wellness benefits including access to employee engagement groups, self-care resources, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Generous paid time off up to 19 days for full time employees in your first year and much more!
• In addition to all of JRI's amazing benefits, we are offering a SIGN ON BONUS to all new employees!
• We also provide work life balance and flexibility to ensure your life is as active as your career!

• Minimum Master’s degree or above in the mental health field, must be licensed or license eligible (LCSW, LICSW, LMHC or LMFT).
• Ability to create and implement treatment/service plans that demonstrate a clear understanding of the client’s cultural background.
• Proven ability to form therapeutic relationships with people from diverse backgrounds including those of different racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious and sexual orientation identities.
• Must have daily access to reliable, insured vehicle and active Driver’s License
• Must be willing to maintain a flexible work schedule and to participate in an on-call schedule.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn electronic medical record software and basic computer functions including the Microsoft Suite.
• Clinical experience with children/adolescents is required and familiarity with trauma informed models of treatment preferred. Experience with community mental health programs or providing family therapy preferred but not required.
• Good written and oral communication skills are necessary.
• Background and driving record checks will be performed.

Salary : $64,000 - $71,000