Lead Clinical Therapist - New Day, Inc

The Lead Clinical Therapist provides professional guidance and direction to maintain and improve the quality of the service delivery in effectively meeting the needs of the participants in placement at New Day group homes.

• Hours are Monday - Friday 11:00 am - 7:00 pm with occasional evenings and weekends.
• Salary is $64,000 per year
• Maintain case management of caseload using active treatment principles
• Act as Treatment Team Leader for weekly internal staff meetings
• Ensure each youth receives 75 minutes of therapy and 75 minutes of therapeutic intervention services per week
• Follow Progress Notes Policy for documentation guidelines
• Complete clinical assessment within 5 business days of youth's admission
• Develop and complete Individual Case Plans / Master Treatment Plans on each participant.  Master Treat Plans must be reviewed and updated at least every 30 days.  Copy of Treatment plan must be provided to placing agency and custodial parent or guardian within 10 business days of development,  Ensure Discharge Summaries are completed within 10 business days.
• Develop and submit in timely manner "Continuation of Stays" for those meeting medical criteria
• Provide support and guidance to Program Managers and Youth Empowerment Specialists of the milieu; including overseeing of routines, requirements, programmatic, medication procedures, inventorying of medications.  In absence of Program Manager, Lead Clinical Therapist of each Unit will inventory and verify on-hand medications upon assuming duties each shift.
• Oversee therapeutic infrastructure of group home.  Report directly to Supervisor
• Attend clinical meetings
• Complete quarterly chart audits under direction of Quality Assurance or Clinical Director
• Other duties as assigned by New Day, Inc. administration.

Qualifications:

• Master's Degree from accredited college or university with major course work in social work, counseling, or psychology, management
• Extensive experience working with troubled youth and families and the subsequent development of the emotional problems by displaced and dysfunctional youth
• LCS must be a licensed clinical psychologist, licensed master level social worker (MSW), or licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC).  
• Can be an in-training mental health professional.
• Maintain high degree of confidentiality and exhibit diplomacy and tact
• Ability to read, analyze, interpret documents, to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.  Ability to write reports and correspondence, and effectively present information and respond to questions from individuals and groups.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure.
• Maintain status as Non-violent crisis intervention, CPR, and First Aid certified