Clinical Internship

Overview

Clinical Interns are needed to help us in our endeavor to build the healthiest community in the nation one person at a time.

The Mission:

At SummitStone Health Partners we strive to foster trust empower recovery and inspire hope to strengthen and enrich our Northern Colorado community.

We need your help to make this vision a reality.

We are building a team who believes in providing crucial services at crucial times helping the people in our community at their most vulnerable particularly those who are often overlooked and underserved.

We Embrace Our Diversity

Come As You Are:

A core value here at SummitStone.

We want you to be your authentic self while at work so we welcome and actively seek team members of different backgrounds identities and experiences. SummitStone is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment honoring each individuals wholeself by embracing differences in race ethnicity ability age gender sexual orientation spiritual beliefs socioeconomic status language and the inherent intersections of many different identities. We invite everyone to share our journey and are proudly an equal opportunity employer.

Experiences and Backgrounds We Look For

If this sounds like your calling then we want to help you succeed grow and thrive at SummitStone.

• Location and hours: vary based on internship
• Dates:Academic Year

What Youll Do:

Interns donate their time and provide services to SummitStone for the specific purpose of gaining experience and knowledge in accordance with the requirements of a higher education institution. Interns are seeking to successfully complete their field placement froman undergraduate orgraduate behavioral health program in a cooccurring clinical setting offered through SummitStone Health Partners. Interns may provide ongoing clinical assessment diagnosis individual family and group therapy crisis intervention and case management services for both child and adult clients with mild to severe mental illness substance use disorders and/or disabilities. Participate in weekly supervision which consists of a minimum of 1 hour per week. Develop document and monitor treatment plans. Monitor and document treatment services interactions and progress. Ensure that documentation and maintenance of client charts meet agency state federal etc. audit standards. Collaborate with internal (i.e. medical psychiatric clinical case management peers etc. and external (i.e. referral agencies family friends etc. treatment team members and/or supports around a clients treatment plan goals treatment and treatment progress. Coordinate with collaterals and/or partner agencies during and after a clients treatment to ensure sustainable support and stepdown services are in place.

Essential duties:

• Provide direct clinical services to clients as assigned by Administrative/Clinical Supervisor via telephone video or facetoface.
• Ongoing assessment and treatment of client mental health and substance use disorder symptoms in a variety of situations.
• Facilitate a wide variety of individual family and group therapy crisis and case management services with the purpose of psychoeducation and ameliorating mental health and/or substance use disorder symptoms and meeting client treatment plan goals. Further prevent deterioration decompensation and/or hospitalization.
• Implement a wide variety of evidencebased treatment interventions that seek to improve client functioning and wellbeing. Further treatment interventions simultaneously focus on sustainability and client applying learned skills to problem solving and negotiating tasks of everyday living.
• Conduct crisis interventions via telephone video and/or facetoface intervene deescalate assess suicidal/homicidal risk and implement needed holds treatment services and/or referrals to additional treatment resources.
• Provide case management services as needed to assist client in meeting their treatment plan goals as stated in their treatment plans and/or make referrals to supportive services that can do so when necessary (i.e. medical vocational educational financial housing transportation etc..
• Formulate document and monitor client treatment plans and client treatment progress.
• Document all treatment services (i.e. individual family group etc. interactions (i.e. facetoface phone fax email etc. and progress.
• All clinical documentation should follow proper protocol as set forth by Quality Improvement third party payors requirements and agency state federal etc. auditing and/or reporting parties.
• Follow agency and program productivity standards as outlined by SummitStone Health Partners.
• Advocate and or support clients in advocating for themselves in many different venues (i.e. education employment housing etc..
• Collaborate with internal and external treatment team members and/or supports.
• Maintain close and cooperative relationships with internal and external treatment team members supports collaterals and/or community partners with the purpose of coordinating collective efforts to assist clients in meeting their treatment goals.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Administrative/Clinical Supervisor.

Other responsibilities may vary based on program

Job Requirements:

• Ability to provide ongoing clinical assessment diagnosis individual family and group therapy crisis intervention and case management services for both our child and adult clients with mild to severe mental illness substance use disorders and/or disabilities.
• Ability to provide treatment or case management in routine crisis situations.
• Able to visually assess mental health and/or substance use disorder symptoms such as blunt affect psychomotor ation racing speech tangential speech slurred speech etc.
• Knowledge of psychopathology substance use disorder treatment and methods of therapy/treatment.
• Strong/effective verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to read analyze and interpret related professional periodicals journals technical procedures and/or government regulations.
• Capable of applying principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
• Time management and prioritization skills.

Minimum qualifications:

• Seeking a minimum of one semester of field placement from an undergraduate and/or graduate social work or psychology program in a cooccurring clinical setting offered through SummitStone Health Partners.
• Relevant experience or demonstrated knowledge in the mental health and/or substance use disorder field.
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to plan and implement assessment diagnosis variety of direct clinical services and variety of treatment interventions with clients.
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to plan monitor and document client treatment plans and progress in conjunction with state and federal auditing and reporting guidelines.
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to collaborate and coordinate mental health and substance use disorder treatment plans and interventions with other providers and agencies.

Required Education & Licensure:

• Enrolled in Bachelors (BS) or (BA) Degree in counseling psychology social work or related field from accredited behavioral health college or university.
• Enrolled in Masters (MS) or (MA) Degree in counseling psychology social work or related field from accredited behavioral health college or university.
• Valid drivers license with clean driving record.

Essay Requirement

We are seeking clinical mental health interns who are passionate about working in a community mental health setting. Our goal is to provide meaningful training in an environment that serves diverse and underserved populations with an emphasis on equity inclusion and culturally responsive care. Each applicant is required to upload an essay 500700 words) addressing oneof the prompts below.

Essays will be evaluated for clinical insight personal motivation commitment to diversity and readiness to work in a highneed environment.

Essay Prompt 1

Mental health work can be emotionally demanding. How do you manage stress and prevent burnout Please include a description of a time you faced a challenging situation in a clinical work or academic setting and how you handled it. Please also address what skills or competencies you hope to develop through this internship.

Essay Prompt 2

What does cultural humility mean to you and how do you integrate it into your work Please include a description of a time when you worked with or learned from someone with a different background culture or worldview and how it impacted your perspective. Please also address what steps you take (or plan to take) to ensure that your clinical practice is inclusive antioppressive and traumainformed.

Start With Yes

At SummitStone we show up not only for our clients but for our staff as well. You will be joining a team of committed professionals who believe in the power of starting with yes where an unparalleled level of teamwork and support can solve any challenge.

We believe that people can and do recover but we also know that they cant always do it on their own. Thats where you come in. If you have any or all of these qualities we want you to consider us for your next career move:

• You believe in being a voice for behavioral health in Northern Colorado
• You embrace equity for your clients teammates and partners
• Collaboration and creativity are crucial to helping you solve problems
• You show up as your genuine self to help guide others through their toughest times
• Through continuous curiosity exploration and reflection youre eager to adapt and learn

Priority consideration will be given to complete applications received by Tuesday April 1st 2025 @ 11:59pm.

Reach Out

SummitStone will provide persons with disabilities reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or selection process please let your recruiter know.

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