Prevention Clinician - Parent Care Program
Prevention Clinician - Parent Care Program
St Catherine's Center for Children offers a comprehensive range of programs designed to offer hope, foster growth, and improve the lives of the children and families we serve.
POSITION Social Worker
DESCRIPTION
The Prevention Clinician participates in the planning and delivery of evidenced based clinical services and assures fidelity to the particular evidenced based model in terms of service delivery.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to;
- Provide evidenced based clinical services to children and family as delineated and prescribed in the treatment planning process.
- Completion of the assessment format, negotiation with clients as to the types of intervention that will be deployed, the time and place parameters of the service delivery, schedules for Service Plan Reviews and projected time frame for discharge from services.
- Provide accurate and thorough documentation of client contacts via the New York State Connections system and internal systems
- Provide specialized therapies including play therapy for children, individual counseling, couple counseling and family counseling as prescribed by the treatment team.
- Adhere to County and St. Catherine's requirements for frequency of contacts and for place of contacts as described in the Albany County DCYF and St. Catherine's contracts
- Adhere to the CASSP Core Principles, affirming a client's right to self determination and full involvement with the treatment team in terms of developing service goals and consumer friendly methods for attaining these goals; assuring that services are child centered, family focused, culturally competent and community based.
- Maintain regular contact with relevant agency staff and other community agencies providing services to families.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
Requirements:
- Master’s degree in Social Work from an accredited university social work program (M.S.W.) or a Master’s degree in a related field required
- LMSW, LCSW, LMHC required within one year of hire date.
- Strong organization, analytical and planning skills.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Clean and valid NYS Driver’s license required.
WEEKENDS REQUIRED
REQ NUMBER PRE-18-00009
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.