Lead Clinician
Lead Clinician
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05-04-2025
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05-04-2025
Job Description
JOB TITLE
LEAD CLINICIAN
CATEGORY
EXEMPT
PROGRAM
URBAN STRATEGIES REFUGIO UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN
WORK SCHEDULE
FIVE DAYS PER WEEK 40 HOURS PER WEEK; 12 MONTHS PER YEAR
REPORTS TO
PROGRAM DIRECTOR REFUGIO
ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW
Urban Strategies exists to equip resource and connect faith and communitybased organizations that are engaged in community transformation to help families reach their fullest potential. We work with trusted faith and communitybased organizations and focus on the Latino community to engage and come alongside the whole family. Our vision is that all children and families reach their full potential.
Our work is informed by our three core values: Authentic Relationships Servant Leadership and Intentional Compassion.
- Authentic Relationshipsare foundational to our work and move beyond a transactional nature to truly know people. They serve as opportunities for mutual development and growth and are based on the belief that all people have inherent dignity and worth.
- Servant Leadershipis rooted in an othercentric mindset that informs the way one leads and builds up individuals families and communities.
- Intentional Compassiondescribes a deliberate commitment to understand formulate strategic responses and activate others to reach their full potential.
Our organization is headquartered in Washington D.C.. Our team works across the United States and Puerto Rico with direct service centers located in California Arizona Texas Florida New York and Puerto Rico.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The Refugio Unaccompanied Children Shelter and Foster Care Program is a24hourprogram that serves young persons in immigration custody who are awaiting release to their sponsors.
POSITION OVERVIEW
Lead Clinicians conduct mental health assessments for all unaccompanied children (UC) in care as well as provide ongoing individual and group counseling just as Clinicians but with the added responsibilities of coordinating clinical services training new clinicians and supervising clinical staff. Lead clinicians are designated when more than one clinician is on staff at a care provider facility.
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Utilize trauma theory and brief therapeutic techniques to work with unaccompanied children entering the United States during a typical stay of 3035 days.
- Conduct mental health assessments of all children admitted to the UC program as well as provide ongoing individuals and group counseling screening for human trafficking concerns.
- Provide ongoing individual and crisis intervention.
- Prepare goaloriented diagnostic assessments group counseling staff training and program enrichment.
- Provide guidance to all members of the program staff.
- The Lead Clinician will carry up to nine cases with additional supervisory and management responsibilities.
- Upon request this role may be required to travel with UC 14 and under to locations in the United States.
- Other duties as assigned.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Ability to see at normal distance hear normal conversations and sounds and use hands and fingers to fill out required forms. Physically able to perform therapeutic physical restraints.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions as long as the staff disability does not create an undue risk of injury to any children.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Education: Masters degree in Social Work LMFT Counseling or other relevant behavioral science in which clinical experience is a program requirement.
- Substitution: Bachelors degree in one of the aforementioned behavioral sciences plus seven years of clinical employment experience in behavioral sciences.
- Experience: Five years of postgraduate direct service delivery experience group and individual counseling and related treatment services
- Credentials: Must be licensed within their state of residence to practice therapy. A copy must be provided to HR. Supervisor licensure is preferred.
- Competencies:
- Professional:Diversity Communication Time Management Planning Organization
- Technical:Trauma Group and Individual Counseling Sexual Abuse Management;
- Organizational: Leadership Teamwork Community Approach.
- Skills: Office 0365 Bilingual (English Spanish)
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Other:Bilingual (English Spanish)
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
Other employment requirements include the following:
- Fingerprint
- Background check
- TB Test
Employment is conditional pending satisfactory results of all required tests and background
checks mentioned above. Periodic physical examinations and TB clearances will be required if hired.
To Apply:
- Please visitwww.urbanstrategies/careers.
- Please contact us with any questions:.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Employment Type
Full Time
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