GENERAL OVERVIEW OF KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Clinician, meeting the requirements of a Mental Health Professional, will provide intensive therapeutic services to youth and their families. Using strengths-based practices, and trauma informed and culturally competent care is preferred.
ESSENTIAL & CORE FUNCTIONS
1. Complete comprehensive assessments of the consumers.
2. Using the strengths-based approach identify problems and design an ITP with appropriate and reasonable goals.
3. Identify behavioral goals in measurable terms and selection of appropriate interventions for inclusion in the ITP.
4. Review, analyze and interpret data to determine any changes to goals and objectives included in the ITP.
5. Provide individual therapy
6. Provide family therapy
7. Provide group therapy
8. Assist with crisis stabilization
9. Submit monthly reports summarizing program status and outcomes.
10. Ensure outcome data is collected, reported, complied accurately and in a timely manner.
11. Implement evidence-based practices with fidelity.
12. Review of consumer files assuring regulatory and funding standards are met and adhered to.
13. Serve as a liaison to adults across all areas in the child’s life
14. Facilitate discharge planning and implement discharge plans.
15. Meet service productivity expectations.
16. Complete all paperwork within specified time frames.
17. Maintain an understanding of agency policies and procedures.
18. Participate in and adhere to an Individualized Training Plan.
19. Attend and participate in supervision in accordance with regulatory standards.
20. Adhere to WES’s Code of Ethics and complies with State Mental Health Code.
21. Assure continuous quality assurance/program development.
22. Comply with WES standards for service delivery.
23. Maintain consumer confidentiality.
Requirements
Has a graduate degree from a college or university that is accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in a generally recognized clinical discipline in which the degree program includes a clinical practicum.
OR
2. Has an equivalent degree from a foreign college or university that has been evaluated by the Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. (AICE) or the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES). The Department will accept a general equivalency report form the listed evaluator agencies to verify a foreign degree or its equivalence.
OR
3. Is licensed in a generally recognized clinical discipline that includes mental health clinical experience.
4. Knowledge of community resources, evidence based practices, and trauma informed and culturally competent care preferred.
5 Criminal, Child Abuse and FBI clearance required.
6. Bi-Lingual Preferred
Benefits
WES Health System was founded in July 1992 as a successor of previous organizations that were committed to providing behavioral health care since the mid-1970s. This successor organization was officially named Dr. Warren E. Smith Health Centers (WES) in 1994. Through the years, WES’ staff has been providing services to the community and has been instrumental in the broad expansion of services to individuals and families. WES is based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and began providing behavioral health care and other human services to individuals living in areas that are plagued by high crime rates, unemployment, and other social problems. WES Health System has expanded to additional metropolitan areas to provide behavioral health care to a variety of individuals and families.
WES Health System and its subsidiary companies were named after Dr. Warren E. Smith, a prominent African American psychiatrist who was committed to providing quality behavioral health care to the under-served. Beginning his career in 1954, Dr. Warren E. Smith was one of the first African American psychiatrists; he was revered as a highly principled man who was deeply sensitive to the problems of minorities living in the Philadelphia area.
