Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage intake for both children and adult programs
- Provide assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for clients
- Provide therapy interventions for individuals, couples, families, and groups
- Provide assessment and diagnosis using DSM5 criteria
- Complete billable therapy or diagnostic sessions each per week
- Develop treatment plans for clients that reflect diagnoses and other mental health/behavioral problems
- Collaborate with other service and mental/physical health care providers as needed, provided the client has signed a release of information allowing it
- Maintain and develop case load, appointments, and schedule
- Complete required documentation in a timely manner
- Accommodate walk-in clients in crisis or with urgent needs
- Create and provide educational training or support groups, when necessary
- Provide home/community visit after traumatic death/loss
- Provide timely initial assessment, brief intervention, referral and follow up, when necessary, requested by superiors
- Provide grief and bereavement focused support groups and psychotherapy
- Develop clinical protocols, guidelines, training, presentations to support the clinical interventions to the suicide prevention services
- Respond to urgent needs request from the community during non-office hours, when necessary
- Attend staff meetings, case consultations, and trainings as requested
- Create medical records for current and previous clients
- Provide services at different JFS locations, when necessary
Education:
- Licensure: Current LMSW
- Bilingual preferred
Qualifications:
- Experience intake screening and assessment
- Experience diagnosing mental health and substance use disorders using DSM 5 criteria
- Experience treating mental health disorders
- Experience providing individual, group, and/or family counseling
- Familiarity with and experience in referring clients to outside resources and services, such as substance abuse facilities
- Ability to work collaboratively and independently
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent Excel skills
- Working knowledge of community resources
To apply to please email resume to:
Ada Cheung, Ph.D., LCSW-S, RPTTM
Chief Clinical Officer
...@alexanderjfs.org