Clinician ipv-fair

Bridges Healthcare, Inc., has an immediate opening for a Clinician IPV-FAIR (Intimate Partner Violence - Family Assessment Intervention Response) in our Family Centered Services Division in New Haven.

Benefits for the positions include:

• Competitive pay commensurate with experience
• Medical and Dental with significant employer contribution to the premiums and HSA (if chosen as your plan)
• 403(b) with a generous employer contribution
• Employer-Paid Life Insurance
• Paid Vacation with 22 days to start, paid personal days, paid sick time, paid winter holiday break days, plus 11 paid holidays

Salary: $58,600 - $63,856, commensurate of experience

PURPOSE and POSITION OVERVIEW

The IPV-FAIR Clinician provides clinical assessment, curriculum-based psychotherapy, and psychoeducation to caregivers who have been involved in intimate partner violence. Goals of the service include strengthening parent-child relationships, increasing emotion regulation and communication skills, and reducing exposure of children to intimate partner violence. Services are trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and client-centered.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Meet with clients in their homes, the community, or the agency office to provide an array of clinical services to all caregivers in families experiencing domestic violence.
• Provide clinical services which are trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and client-centered.
• Foster therapeutic alliances and maintain a non-judgmental stance with all caregivers from DV-impacted families, including those who have experienced abuse and those who have caused harm.
• Facilitate family engagement and employ Motivational Interviewing techniques (training available).
• Perform full assessment of family, including children, in order to write comprehensive case assessment and formulate individualized treatment plan.
• Administer clinical curriculum appropriate to client needs (either Fathers for Change or Mothers and More) which includes CBT-based interventions for emotion regulation, reflective functioning work, communication skill-building and psychoeducation.
• Conduct occasional dyadic therapy sessions including parent-child dyads and caregiver dyads as appropriate.
• Provide individual counseling, psychoeducation, and referrals as needed.
• Maintain flexible work hours to accommodate family needs, including occasional evenings as needed, with late hours being flexed out elsewhere during pay period.
• Collaborate with DCF staff assigned to client families.
• Attend staff meetings, provider meetings, group supervisions, and other required meetings and trainings.
• Complete thorough, accurate and timely documentation and maintain complete case records.
• Attend regularly scheduled (one hour per week) 1:1 supervision with IPV-FAIR Program Director, who holds an LCSW.
• Collaborate closely with family navigators assigned to families on your caseload.
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to HIPAA guidelines in all correspondence and documentation.
• Attend educational trainings in related areas and maintain licensure.
• Perform any other reasonably related duties as assigned by the Program Director.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's Degree in Social Work, Counseling, Marriage & Family Therapy or related field required.
• Associate Degree required, LMSW, LMFTA, LPCA
• Minimum two years experience in a counseling setting required.
• Understanding of issues related to trauma, child abuse prevention, family violence and systems advocacy preferred.
• Ability to work with diverse individuals.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
• Access to reliable transportation on a consistent basis, valid driver's license and auto insurance.

Bridges Healthcare is a valued and trusted community partner. A leading provider of a wide continuum of integrated behavioral health services. An employer of choice and offers staff the opportunity to grow and learn with the organization. Sustained by a diverse funding model that reflects broad-based community support and investment. Well-known and well-regarded for the services and supports we provide. A recognized expert and leader in delivering innovative solutions to behavioral health challenges. A powerful advocate for our clients, services, and improved systems. Loan repayment on some positions may be eligible as Bridges is a STAR and NHSC Approved Site by HRSA. Only candidates whose qualifications meet the requirements of the position will be contacted. No phone calls, walk-ins or third parties, please. We regret that we cannot provide relocation assistance for this position. Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)