Residential Clinician
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Residential Clinician
Our Residential Clinicians play a vital role in helping clients meet their individual goals, while supporting them to acclimate and make gainful progress in our Residential Program. Clinicians collaborate with an expansive treatment team, to include Psychiatry, Family Wellness, Continuing Care and Wellness teams to create individualized, prescriptive plans of care. The Mountainside holistic philosophy of care is provided and enables clients to move toward healthy change, while addressing the root causes and results of their substance use disorders. Clinicians are truly the backbone of the program providing "Best in Class" clinical care to clients in a serene and peaceful setting, along the Mountains in the far Northwest Corner of Connecticut. Mountainside believes in complete and total wellness and fosters the same nurturing environment for clinicians, as we are known to do for clients.
Your Role: Review client's discharge records from previous treatment providers, contacting client's emergency contacts and family members, former providers and referral sources; Ability to utilize identified screening/assessment tools, stage-wise interventions and treatment models; Understands group dynamics/processes, facilitates groups with a focus on integrated care and documents efforts via individualized progress notes; Complete comprehensive clinical utilization reviews on a regular basis and communicate all Insurance needs to Utilization Review Department; Role model, explain and encourage pro-social behaviors such as: 12-step meeting etiquette, time management, appropriate language, dress and the importance of building healthy relationships; Communicate with med room and medical/ psychiatric staff to monitor client medication compliance and medication issues; Provide evidenced based treatment modalities showing strong understanding of trauma informed care; Participate in weekly individual clinical supervision and group clinical supervision. Maintain weekly communication with clients' family to report client progress and well-being at Mountainside; Exhibits the ability to defuse crisis situations and provide crisis management techniques.
Education and Qualifications: Graduate Degree Current Licensure (LADC, LPC, LCSW, LMFT) or license eligible. Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as necessary. Awareness and sensitivity to addiction, socio-economics and strong cultural competency. Strong oral and written communication skills. Excellent organization and time management skills. Interested in becoming part of our family? Clinical Residential Mountainside is an Equal Opportunity Employer.