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Clinician Job Description

   

Added on  2023-03-23

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Job Description
Position: Clinician
Department: Mental Health
Reports To: Clinical Program Manager
FLSA Status: Salaried, Exempt
Position Summary:
The Clinician is primarily responsible for providing individual, family and group therapy to clients in their
assigned mental health program at The Children’s Receiving Home. The Clinician works closely with county
social workers, parents and team members, consulting and collaborating on client’s progress and treatment
plans. The Clinician may serve as a program consultant to the shelter program.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Provide Individual, Group and Family Therapy For Each Client.
• Assess clients’ needs and level of functioning including a bio psychosocial assessment of all clients
referred to the case load.
• Provide crisis counseling to children/families as necessary.
• Write safety, behavioral, and treatment plans.
• Schedule and coordinate therapy sessions.
• Provide clinical interventions for teachers, parents, and other caregivers to generalize skills in other
environments.
• Meet with clients for individual, group and/or family therapy sessions.
• Provide collateral parties with information to best meet the client’s needs as necessary.
• Assess, determine and make a referral when special services or care are needed for a child (i.e.
medication evaluation, psychiatric hospitalization, in-home services or psychological testing, etc.).
Paperwork and Documentation.
• Write daily/weekly progress notes for each therapy session and mental health service.
• Complete appropriate mental health documentation, including but not limited to, client plans
performance outcomes, progress reports, health questionnaires, and termination reports as required.
• Continuously review charts for new and/or relevant information concerning clients.
• Prepare and maintain charts in accordance with audit requirements.
• Perform Utilization Reviews as assigned.
Training and Consultation
• Attend clinical, school, planning and discharge meetings etc. to consult with clinical and program staff.
• Attend weekly supervision meetings with therapy supervisor if unlicensed, to comply with California
Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) licensing requirements.
• Licensed Therapists who have met the California BBS requirements to provide supervision, may provide
weekly individual and/or group supervision for unlicensed clinicians so they may obtain licensing hours.
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