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Join the McNabb Center Team as the Knox BRIDGES Master's Level Liaison program today!

The Knox BRIDGES Master's Level Liaison

Duties:

• Conducts individual, family, and group counseling
• Provides advocacy, linkage, and referral services as needed
• Provides mental health assessments, as needed
• Participates in IEP and other school related meetings, as applicable.
• Provides parent education
• Maintains appropriate chart records
• Interfaces professionally with school personnel and other agencies
• Conducts group sessions with children and/or parents.
• Interfaces professionally with school personnel and provides therapeutic support.
• Completes all documentation in a timely manner.
• Upholds center policy and procedures, and CARF standards.

Job Summary

Summary of position:

• Serves as the primary clinician that provides counseling/liaison services to a pre-determined number of children/youth and families in the Knox County School (KCS) System.
• Clinician provides weekly individual and family psychotherapy to children and adolescents ages 4-21 with a mental health diagnosis.
• Clinician is to provide psycho-social assessments for clients and provides diagnosis and appropriate referrals for clients assessed, as needed.
• Clinician provides crisis intervention and emergency services as needed.
• Interfaces with the school system and other agencies to increase cooperation and consistency between home, school, and community.
• The Bridges Master's Level Liaison/ Counselor provides information and referral, agency linkage, advocacy, home visits, and follow-up services.
• Treatment modalities used by Master's level clinicians providing therapy services include but are not limited to: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency (ARC), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), and Play Therapy.

Summary of role of team:

• The school-based team serves as a treatment team to plan, implement, and evaluate successful interventions for children and families.
• Works alongside KCS to identify and collaborate about mental health services to selected schools while providing linkage and coordination to appropriate services.
• The holder of this position will provide individual, family, and group counseling sessions including initiatives that encourage communication, trust building, and responsibility of actions and clinical process of all activities.

Typical Working Conditions/Environment

• Job duties are primarily performed in the school setting, but services are also provided in the homes, community and office setting.
• This position is year-round, 40 hours per week and is not limited to the school schedule.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive; and employee will also perform other reasonable related job responsibilities as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required. This organization reserves the right to revise or change job duties as the need arises. Moreover, management reserves the right to change job descriptions, job duties, or working schedules based on their duty to accommodate individuals with disabilities. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

1. Quality Care.

• Provides individual/family psychotherapy for children ages 4-21.
• Clinician is present and ready to begin session at the appointment time, every session.
• Clinician calls to reschedule any sessions that he/she will be unable to attend or that the consumer missed or canceled 100% of the time.
• Clinician communicates accurate and thorough information to outside agencies 100% of the time when clients need different or more appropriate care that HRMC cannot provide.
• Ensures therapy contacts are completed each month, according to program standards.
• Communicates to Team Leader in weekly supervision if referrals become low to ensure adequate and timely caseload assignments of clients on referral list
• Meet weekly with direct supervisor to discuss clinical and administrative concerns/changes.

2. Provides diagnostic Psycho-Social Assessments.

• Clinician completes intakes and assessments within 5 business days of contact.
• Assessments will be completed in coordination with Assessment Team and Client Benefits as evidenced by communicating any issues concerning clients or assessment.
• Clinicians will provide intake coverage, as directed by Team Leader.

3. Documentation requirements.

• Ensures all family/client participation in treatment planning as evidence by signatures on treatment plans.
• Create and implement treatment interventions that are reflected in progress note documentation based on the treatment plan goals
• Respond to all flags and e-mails within 2 business days
• Respond to all voice mails within 30 minutes
• If licensed, signing the non-licensed clinicians' treatment plans and being available for clinical consult
• Attend weekly/biweekly treatment teams with school personnel
• Attend monthly treatment teams and staffing meetings with Director/Program Coordinator/Team Leaders.
• Attend and participate in school-based meetings with school personnel and community partners involved in the community schools.

4. Complete all required clinical documentation in accordance with Center Policy and Procedure and funding source guidelines.

• Update treatment plans, crisis plans, consent to contact, DLA-20 and updated admissions signature page every 6 months
• Completes intakes within 10 days of school referral, as applicable.
• Complete and submit productivity II summaries to Team Leader by the 3rd business day of the month.
• Complete intake treatment plans within 30 days of intake
• Create daily progress notes and sign in EMR within one week of service provided
• Submit all daily contact logs monthly.
• Submit hand generated productivity to Team Leader by the third working business day of the month.

COMPENSATION:

• Starting salary for this position is approximately $49,273 /yr based on relevant experience and education.

Schedule:

• An essential job function is a reliable, predictable 40 hour per week job, on site and in the schools and/or community, with regular attendance.

Travel:

• This position requires utilizing a personal dependable vehicle to conduct Center business and maintaining a dependable vehicle and certified driver status is a condition of employment.
• "F" endorsement is required for occasional transportation of clients as needed.

Equipment/Technology: 

• Basic computer skills are required for email, timekeeping, and documentation in the electronic medical record.

QUALIFICATIONS - Knox BRIDGES Master's Level Liaison

Education / License:

• Master's degree in Human Services or related field with coursework or experience in the areas of cultural diversity, human development, etiology and treatment of mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, physical and sexual abuse, and intellectual disabilities.
• Demonstrated knowledge and competency in mental health service provision and leadership.

Experience / Knowledge:

• Must have course work and or experience in the areas of cultural diversity, human development, etiology and treatment of mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, physical and sexual abuse, suicide, and intellectual disabilities.
• One year experience preferred.
• Experience working with children is preferred although applicants may have other skills and experiences that could accommodate this position.
• This person will either possess experience or training in the Re-Education Philosophy or will acquire such training in the course of employment.

Physical:

• Ability to effectively and ethically counsel children and families.
• Ability to present professionally and work within a team format to plan, implement, and evaluate successful interventions.
• Ability to effectively run and process groups with children and families.
• Ability to work within a team format to meet positive goals for children and interface with other agencies involved in the ecology of the family.
• Must have mental ability to exercise sound judgment under pressure.
• Ability to exercise effective decision-making, ability to set and demonstrate appropriate boundaries, ability to be an empathic listener, flexibility, willingness, and adaptability to working with diverse populations.
• Must also have the ability to communicate effectively and possess good time management and organizational skills.
• CPR and First Aid Certification will be required (training provided).
• This position requires training and certification in and the ability to adequately implement a variety of verbal de-escalation methods and personal/client safety techniques.
• Physical de-escalation techniques will only be implemented at McNabb Center facilities, and not in community settings (training provided).
• Hearing of normal and soft tones.
• Close eye work.
• Valid driver's license and F endorsement for occasional transportation of clients.
• Lifting up to 50lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, bending, stooping, and reaching.

Location: 

• Knoxville, Tennessee
  

Apply today to work where we care about you as an employee and where your hard work makes a difference!

Helen Ross McNabb Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Center provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

Helen Ross McNabb Center conducts background checks, driver's license record, degree verification, and drug screens at hire. Employment is contingent upon clean drug screen, background check, and driving record. Additionally, certain programs are subject to TB Screening and/or testing. Bilingual applicants are encouraged to apply.