School of Social Work

Employer Name and Location (city, state): Sweetser; Belfast, ME

Job Description:

Serve children/adolescents, their families, guardians, and other care providers through individual,

group, and family therapy. Provide clinical involvement in the classroom.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Assessment

    o Use organization’s established tools and procedures to formulate assessment of the

child/adolescent and his/her family. This includes level of care and risk assessments as needed.

Involve family members and significant others.

    o Completes assessment to make diagnosis with possible collaboration with others .

• Treatment Planning and Service Delivery

    o With the child/adolescent and his/her family, develop an Individualized Service Plan (ISP),

Individual Crisis

    o Management Plan (ICMP), and a Discharge and Aftercare Plan and other documents associated

with the

    o Record such as the Initial Assessment (IA) or Service Update (SUD).

    o Offer treatment to the child/adolescent and his/her family by using family-centered clinical

techniques and therapies (including individual, group and family therapy as indicated.)

    o Assist in developing and monitoring specialized behavioral programs, as indicated.

    o Identify concrete service needs and help the family make a referral for community based

services.

• Documentation and Accountability

    o Achieve program-specific productivity expectations.

    o Document service delivery and ensure the timely completion of all programmatic paperwork

documentation and electronic record.

    o Assure quality service for clients by enforcing rules, regulations, and legal requirements with

clients.

    o Adhere to professional code of ethics.

    o Attend and participate in supervision.

    o Complete necessary documentation to ensure funding.

• Provide a clinical experience for student interns as appropriate.

PRODUCTIVITY:

• Expectation is designated by the program to be a percentage of total hours worked designated as

billable hours. Billable hours are individual therapy, milieu therapy, family therapy and group therapy.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, treatment plan and memos.

• Ability to write correspondence.

• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to clients and

other employees of the organization.

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or

diagram form.

• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

• Above average computer skills a must; power, keyboard and mouse functions.

• Ability to work with difficult-to-manage youth.

• Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with other professionals on behalf of youth and their

families.

• Able to develop a positive therapeutic relationship with clients and their families.

• Ability to transport clients.

• Demonstrated competence in discipline.

Requirements/Qualifications:

EDUCATION:

• Master’s degree in Social Work or Counseling from an accredited graduate school