Bilingual Clinician - St. PJ's Children's Home

Description

Summary: 

Under the general direction of the Lead Clinician, the Clinician is responsible for conducting mental health assessments for UAC in care, including ongoing individual counseling, group counseling and crisis intervention in accordance with agency policy, TDFPS Minimum Standards, and ORR Policy. The Clinician screens for human trafficking concerns and assists with the safe and timely release of UAC. The Clinician promotes best practice and facilitates the optimum delivery of quality trauma informed care and mental health services to UAC.

Position Responsibilities:

• Conducting assessments and completes documentation within required timeframes; *
• Preparing goal-oriented assessments and progress reports; *
• Ensuring that the immediate and ongoing mental health needs of children are met through assessment, counseling services and community-based auxiliary services when needed; *
• Enhancing the optimal emotional well-being of each child, identifying and treating children with mental health symptoms and responding to mental health crises; *
• Assessing the therapeutic milieu of the program and actively participating in the enhancement and/or improvement of the living and working environment; *
• Adapting to changing workloads to include work in the evenings, weekends and holidays as needed.
• Assuming on-call duties in rotation with the clinical team.
• Conducting at least one individual counseling session per week to assigned UAC, facilitating one group counseling session and one clinician-led community meeting per week.
• Ensuring the timely completion of required documentation and other assessments in the UAC Portal. 
• Ensuring individual, group and community case notes are submitted in a timely manner.  
• Other duties as assigned by the Program Director. 

Competencies:

Adaptability

Communication

Critical Thinking

Customer Service

Teamwork 

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Education/Experience
  • Minimum 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 clinical experience is a program       requirement; or
  • Bachelor’s degree in one of the aforementioned sciences plus five years of clinical employment experience.
• License and Credentials
  • Reliable transportation.
  • Valid driver license.
  • Valid vehicle insurance.
  • Must be licensed or eligible for licensure.

Able to show proof of immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases transmitted by the respiratory route if working directly with unaccompanied children.

• Varicella: two doses of varicella vaccine (at least 4 weeks apart) OR born in the United States before 1980 with a reported history of chickenpox (verified by an adult present at the time of illness) OR titers indicating varicella immunity OR documentation from healthcare provider verifying previous infection.
• MMR: two doses of MMR vaccine (at least 4 weeks apart) OR titers indicating immunity to all three diseases
• DTaP or DTap: Complete primary vaccination series. If primary vaccination series completed in childhood, one DTaP dose in adulthood.
• Influenza: one dose annually during flu season.

Minimum Knowledge and Skills: 

• Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Word, Excel) and a variety of online database systems, managing files and records, designing forms and other office procedures and terminology.
• Strong analytical and organization skills and abilities.
• Must be able to read and interpret policy, procedures and standards.
• Must be detail oriented, organized, self-motivated, work well independently and on a team.
• Must have good written and verbal skills.
• Must have good critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to remain calm and composed in crisis situations.
• *Bilingual: Fluent in English/Spanish with regards to reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension of the spoken language.

Travel Requirements:

Travel requirements for the position includes 0% local and 0% overnight.

Disclaimer:

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job description or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g., emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, etc.) ** This is a Grant funded position and salary is dependent on funding availability. Position can be eliminated at any time because of lack of funding to support this position.**

St. PJ’s Children’s Home is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To view this and other employment opportunities please visit The Archdiocese of San Antonio website at www.stpjhome.org. You must apply through the website and complete the application and upload your resume. No phone calls please. If you are chosen for an interview, you will be contacted.

Salary : $60,000 - $63,377