Clinician

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title : Clinician

Department :

Foster Family Wellness

Location : Reports To :

SCRIPPS RANCH

Clinical Program Director

FLSA Status : Exempt

Salary Range :

Starting at $70,000 to $75,000

Position Summary :

Provides strengths-based, trauma-informed therapy, targeted case management services, rehabilitative skill development, treatment coordination, collaboration with the treatment team or other providers, advocacy, and linkage to community resources as identified by client need, and collaboration with the other members of the client’s support network. Clinician work with the ORR contract to monitor and ensure the safety and overall well-being of clients and families served, make both formal and informal assessments of clients served to develop a permanency plan to ensure timely permanency is achieved.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the following satisfactorily; other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Provides direct mental health services to agency-approved and contracted clientele.
• Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment.
• Documentation : Includes various assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, discharge summaries etc. in the electronic health record, releases of information, and other needed documents for individual clients. All documentation to be legible, timely, and expressed concisely and clearly.
• Client centered advocacy : Assess clients' needs and level of care, provide referrals and resources, and collateral involvement with families and other professionals and with the treatment team.
• Ensures that services provided to clients are culturally sensitive and, in the client’s, primary language; ensures that religious and ethnic issues pertinent to the client’s condition and plan of care is incorporated into the psychosocial assessment and treatment plan.

ORR Contracted Duties & Responsibilities :

Competencies : To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following :

Qualifications :

Required :

Education / Experience :

Language Ability :

Effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, customers and the public.

Reasoning Ability :

Computer Skills :

Certificates and Licenses :

Work Environment :

Physical Demands :

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must be able to occasionally lift and / or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.