Clinician; LMSW - Eagle House

About us:The Village was one of the first agencies in the country to provide homes for neglected children. Today, we continue to achieve our mission “to build a community of strong,healthy families who protect and nurture children” by providing a fullrange of behavioral health, early childhood and youth development,substance use treatment and support services for children, adults and families in the Greater Hartford, Connecticut region.

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Monday – Friday 9am – 6pm (1 day 10am- 7pm & flexibility toadjust schedule to meet client needs)

ABOUT EAGLE HOUSE

Eagle House is a 24-bed psychiatric residential treatment facility(PRTF) that serves as a step down, or diversion, from inpatienthospitalization for children ages 6-12 who present with severeemotional and behavioral difficulties due to significant traumahistory. Eagle House helps prepare them for transition to community-based treatment, and/or a family or foster care setting,through providing intensive clinical support services like ongoingpsychiatry and nursing evaluations, individual, group, and family therapy sessions, case management, and special education services.

Youth are typically in the program for around 4 months. We use atrauma-informed model of care to build relationships with youth inorder to stabilize them and help them improve overall functioning.

Through building supportive and therapeutic relationships with theyouth, members of the multi-disciplinary team help guide them through crisis when they arise by reinforcing the use of healthy coping skillsto build emotional regulation, so they will be more prepared to managestressors and interact positively with peers and adults when theytransition back into a community setting.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The clinician will provide individual group and family therapy in the program, collaborate with collateral providers, provide on-callclinical support to the program, provide clinical leadership and assistance to milieu staff in working with children in crisis,maintain clinical documentation according to licensing, accreditation,and Medicaid regulations as appropriate, attend and facilitatetreatment meetings for clients, maintain insurance authorization oneach client by conducting initial and monthly authorizations, and conduct clinical in-service trainings for program staff.

Additionally, they will:

• Participate in regular consultation and training.
• Engage in intake, assessment, diagnosing, and discharge planning,using a trauma informed approach.
• Provide individual, group and family therapy in the program.
• Provide treatment in conjunction with multidisciplinary team.
• Participate in weekly individual and group supervision and training to ensure professional growth and needed skills in trauma informed treatment.
• Participate in and facilitate clients’ treatment meetings.
• Ensure adherence to organizational and program policies and procedures.
• Contribute to program and agency’s functioning by providingclinical guidance/direction to program staff.
• Opportunity to contribute to the agency initiatives, visibility,and development of community linkages by assisting on task force andor representing the Village in community groups or committees.
• Participate in on call rotation with teammates to supportclients/families in times of crisis. There is a supplement Stipend for weeks on call. On call services after hours are by phone, not in person.

EDUCATION

• MSW or equivalent required with a minimum of 3 years’ postgraduate clinical experience preferred.
• Clinical degree in social work, psychology, or otherlicensed-eligible counseling degree
• LMSW or equivalent required and licensed eligible

EXPERIENCE

• Must be able to function independently and be able to seek guidance when necessary.
• Strong diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills for individual,family, and group therapy
• Extensive experience working with culturally diverse urbanpopulations, a wide age range, and a…