Mobile Crisis - Child Guidance Center, Southern CT

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Job Description Summary: Job Description: The Mobile Crisis Intervention Service (MCIS) program Clinician is a talented clinical social worker or psychotherapist with a passion for and commitment to working with children age 3 -18 and their parents and/or caregivers. This clinician demonstrates an understanding of child development and has the expertise and flexibility to provide therapeutic interventions, based on the needs of each child and family. An unlicensed clinician (“Clinician I”) works under the supervision of a licensed clinician; a licensed clinician (“Clinician II”) provides clinical services with a greater degree of independent functioning and may supervise trainees, but continues to receive the benefit of clinical supervision to promote continued professional development, support and quality clinical services. A licensed clinician with the requisite experience (“Clinician III”) also supervises other clinicians. ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Specific responsibilities of the position include: - Provide immediate phone screening and prompt mobile response, consistent with time-frame guidelines of the state’s MCIS model and urgency of each situation - Provide crisis assessm...