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Licensed Clinician
“Follow Your Calling, Find Your Career”
Salary range: $61,844.44 - $81,170.82/year
This is an exempt (salaried) position. Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity. Internal equity considerations include an assessment of the applicant’s salary history and qualifications in comparison to the market rate and requirements for the job.
County vehicle is supplied as part of this position.
About Us
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Program:
Being Mentally Healthy During Childhood Means Reaching Developmental And Emotional Milestones And Learning Healthy Social Skills And How To Cope When There Are Problems. The Infant And Early Childhood Mental Health Program (IECMH) Provides In-home And Community-based Clinical Services For Families With Children In The Birth-three Age Range. Clinicians Focus On And Provide Support Parents And Caregivers:
Feeling overwhelmed with being a new parent
Helping build a strong relationship with their baby or toddler
Helping support their child with regulating emotions and behavior
Dealing with difficult events such as-loss of a loved one, frequent moves or changes in caregivers, scary events such as break-ins, car accidents, or community violence
Ongoing significant stress due to divorce, substance use or domestic violence at home
Our licensed clinicians use the following evidence-based IECMH practice models during sessions (TRAININGS PROVIDED):
Child Parent Psychotherapy: Prevention-oriented, trauma-informed therapeutic model that has a particular focus on healthy attachment styles.
Attachment Biobehavioral Catch-Up: Evidence-based practice model focusing on helping caregivers respond to their child’s signals and to help children to learn to regulate emotions and behaviors. This model primarily focuses on 6- to 24-month-old children (infants) OR 24- to 36-month-old children (early childhood).
Position Summary
This position provides licensed clinical activities to a new grant-funded team to provide infant and early childhood mental health services to children under three years old and their families. This position, under minimal supervision, may be responsible for performing diagnosis, assessment, and evaluation, and psychological testing; providing immediate clinical trauma response and intervention, providing direct counseling/therapy; performing treatment planning; conducting home visits; providing referrals, conducting training and preparing progress reports.
Essential Functions
Provide clinical treatment or assessments for clients (individuals, children, and/or families), which includes: determining appropriate intervention/therapies; frequency of interventions; ongoing assessment of progress and needs; and modifying therapeutic plans as required.
Document clinical treatments and evaluations, which includes: synthesizing information gathered by observation, interviews, and record reviews; records reviews and writes summary-style reports; and/or, performing other related activities.
Conduct biopsychosocial and social emotional evaluations, developmental assessments, and psychological testing on clients as appropriate to program assignment.
Participate in multidisciplinary staffing’s regarding clients before and after evaluations, which includes: gathering and synthesizing extensive information to make decisions with the evaluation team regarding evaluation tools and assessment methods; participating in client’s level of overall functioning, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations; and/or, performing other related activities.
Facilitate case consultations with other staff to address the client’s social emotional issues and/or problems.
Participate in revising service plans and interprets evaluation results for clients and/or caregivers.
Collect program evaluation data.
Enter and access clinical data in the electronic data base system.
Correspond and collaborate with interested/involved collaterals, community resources and service providers.
May be required to staff shelters in the event of a disaster.
Minimum Qualifications Experience:
Minimum of two years of experience providing clinical services in the area assigned.
Education:
Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, or a related human services field.
Combination of relevant education and relevant experience accepted?: Yes
Licenses and Certifications
Depending on the area of assignment NC Professional Licensure is required in one of the following areas: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS), Licensed Psychological Associate (LPA), or Licensed Clinical Mental Health Clinician (LCMHC)
Requires a valid North Carolina or South Carolina Driver's License
Requires County Driving Privileges
Annual Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) check required
Preferred Qualifications
Experience providing clinical mental health services to families and young children three years old and younger.
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
Knowledge of
Ethical standards of practice
Typical and Atypical human development
Family dynamics
Family dysfunction
Adult and child psychiatric disorders
Child-caregiver attachment issues
Individual and parent-child treatment modalities
Community resources
Multidisciplinary approach to assessment and treatment
Skills
Assessing typical and atypical human development, psychiatric disorders, family dynamics, family dysfunction, and child-caregiver attachment issues
Implementing treatments for various individual and parent-child modalities
Assessing community resources
Integrating client social emotional needs into treatment plans
Using a computer and related software applications
Providing customer service
Abilities
Care Management: Having the knowledge and skills to secure relevant patient care data and identify key issues and relationships in the management of patient care; understanding the relationships among assessments, interventions, and patient responses; skilled in documentation of assessments and adjusting physical and cognitive prescriptions as needed
Collaboration: Working effectively and cooperatively with others; establishing and maintaining good working relationships
Communication: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the information provided
Patient Education/Health Promotion: Supporting, explaining, and instructing patient and patient’s family (significant other, care giver, etc.) in understanding the clinical procedures and equipment used to facilitate optimum health status; promoting the lifestyle changes required of the patient and the patient’s family to achieve optimum health status
Computer Skills
Proficient in various computer applications including Microsoft Office Suite
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Disclaimer Statement
This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, requirements or working conditions. Other duties may be assigned based on business need and the supervisor’s request. Mecklenburg County reserves the right to revise the job description at any time. Designated positions may be required to assist in emergency and/or disaster situations.
“Follow Your Calling, Find Your Career”
Salary range: $61,844.44 - $81,170.82/year
This is an exempt (salaried) position. Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity. Internal equity considerations include an assessment of the applicant’s salary history and qualifications in comparison to the market rate and requirements for the job.
County vehicle is supplied as part of this position.
About Us
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Program:
Being Mentally Healthy During Childhood Means Reaching Developmental And Emotional Milestones And Learning Healthy Social Skills And How To Cope When There Are Problems. The Infant And Early Childhood Mental Health Program (IECMH) Provides In-home And Community-based Clinical Services For Families With Children In The Birth-three Age Range. Clinicians Focus On And Provide Support Parents And Caregivers:
Feeling overwhelmed with being a new parent
Helping build a strong relationship with their baby or toddler
Helping support their child with regulating emotions and behavior
Dealing with difficult events such as-loss of a loved one, frequent moves or changes in caregivers, scary events such as break-ins, car accidents, or community violence
Ongoing significant stress due to divorce, substance use or domestic violence at home
Our licensed clinicians use the following evidence-based IECMH practice models during sessions (TRAININGS PROVIDED):
Child Parent Psychotherapy: Prevention-oriented, trauma-informed therapeutic model that has a particular focus on healthy attachment styles.
Attachment Biobehavioral Catch-Up: Evidence-based practice model focusing on helping caregivers respond to their child’s signals and to help children to learn to regulate emotions and behaviors. This model primarily focuses on 6- to 24-month-old children (infants) OR 24- to 36-month-old children (early childhood).
Position Summary
This position provides licensed clinical activities to a new grant-funded team to provide infant and early childhood mental health services to children under three years old and their families. This position, under minimal supervision, may be responsible for performing diagnosis, assessment, and evaluation, and psychological testing; providing immediate clinical trauma response and intervention, providing direct counseling/therapy; performing treatment planning; conducting home visits; providing referrals, conducting training and preparing progress reports.
Essential Functions
Provide clinical treatment or assessments for clients (individuals, children, and/or families), which includes: determining appropriate intervention/therapies; frequency of interventions; ongoing assessment of progress and needs; and modifying therapeutic plans as required.
Document clinical treatments and evaluations, which includes: synthesizing information gathered by observation, interviews, and record reviews; records reviews and writes summary-style reports; and/or, performing other related activities.
Conduct biopsychosocial and social emotional evaluations, developmental assessments, and psychological testing on clients as appropriate to program assignment.
Participate in multidisciplinary staffing’s regarding clients before and after evaluations, which includes: gathering and synthesizing extensive information to make decisions with the evaluation team regarding evaluation tools and assessment methods; participating in client’s level of overall functioning, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations; and/or, performing other related activities.
Facilitate case consultations with other staff to address the client’s social emotional issues and/or problems.
Participate in revising service plans and interprets evaluation results for clients and/or caregivers.
Collect program evaluation data.
Enter and access clinical data in the electronic data base system.
Correspond and collaborate with interested/involved collaterals, community resources and service providers.
May be required to staff shelters in the event of a disaster.
Minimum Qualifications Experience:
Minimum of two years of experience providing clinical services in the area assigned.
Education:
Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, or a related human services field.
Combination of relevant education and relevant experience accepted?: Yes
Licenses and Certifications
Depending on the area of assignment NC Professional Licensure is required in one of the following areas: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS), Licensed Psychological Associate (LPA), or Licensed Clinical Mental Health Clinician (LCMHC)
Requires a valid North Carolina or South Carolina Driver's License
Requires County Driving Privileges
Annual Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) check required
Preferred Qualifications
Experience providing clinical mental health services to families and young children three years old and younger.
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
Knowledge of
Ethical standards of practice
Typical and Atypical human development
Family dynamics
Family dysfunction
Adult and child psychiatric disorders
Child-caregiver attachment issues
Individual and parent-child treatment modalities
Community resources
Multidisciplinary approach to assessment and treatment
Skills
Assessing typical and atypical human development, psychiatric disorders, family dynamics, family dysfunction, and child-caregiver attachment issues
Implementing treatments for various individual and parent-child modalities
Assessing community resources
Integrating client social emotional needs into treatment plans
Using a computer and related software applications
Providing customer service
Abilities
Care Management: Having the knowledge and skills to secure relevant patient care data and identify key issues and relationships in the management of patient care; understanding the relationships among assessments, interventions, and patient responses; skilled in documentation of assessments and adjusting physical and cognitive prescriptions as needed
Collaboration: Working effectively and cooperatively with others; establishing and maintaining good working relationships
Communication: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the information provided
Patient Education/Health Promotion: Supporting, explaining, and instructing patient and patient’s family (significant other, care giver, etc.) in understanding the clinical procedures and equipment used to facilitate optimum health status; promoting the lifestyle changes required of the patient and the patient’s family to achieve optimum health status
Computer Skills
Proficient in various computer applications including Microsoft Office Suite
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Disclaimer Statement
This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, requirements or working conditions. Other duties may be assigned based on business need and the supervisor’s request. Mecklenburg County reserves the right to revise the job description at any time. Designated positions may be required to assist in emergency and/or disaster situations.
Salary : $61,844 - $81,171
