Bilingual Lead Clinician

Job Description

Job Description

POSITION : Bilingual Lead Clinician – Unaccompanied Minors Program

REPORTS TO : Assistant Director

CLASSIFICATION : Full Time (Management Team)

EXEMPT / NONEXEMPT : Exempt

GENERAL DESCRIPTION : The Lutheran Safe Haven Shelter and Transitional Foster Care Program is a 24-hour program that serves unaccompanied children (UCs) in immigration custody who are awaiting release to their sponsors. The Lead Clinician is responsible for the oversight and execution of all therapeutic and case management requirements for the shelter and foster care programs.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES include :

• Represents Lutheran Social Services of New York’s mission, values and ethics; upholds agency Code of Conduct; and ensures adherence to agency policy and procedures by clinical staff.
• Provides supervision and support to clinicians via individual sessions, staff meetings and in-house trainings.
• Monitors staff fulfillment of caseload assignments.
• Approves timecards of clinical staff and addresses any changes in clinical staff schedules.
• Performs initial intake and assessment for safety and trafficking concerns within 48 hours of each UC’s arrival as needed.
• Provides weekly individual counseling to UCs and ongoing crisis intervention as needed.
• Provides mental health referrals as needed.
• Coordinates clinical services
• Participates in the hiring and training process for newly hired clinical staff
• Develops group counseling as needed.
• Participates in weekly team meetings to provide mental health and educational updates.
• Revise and edit clinical staff progress notes and reports
• Regularly assesses the safety and well-being of all UCs.
• Ensures quality and excellence in service provision.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule with management team members
• Ensures compliance with local, state, and federal rules and regulations, as well as funder’s requirements.
• Become certified to facilitate trainings in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) for all Safe Haven employees
• Performs other duties as assigned.
SUPERVISES :
• Clinicians
• Social Work Interns

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