Clinician (C&Y) (50091)

Position Description:

Title: Clinician- Youth & Families Reports To: Lead Clinician
Hours: Full Time Supervises: None
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt (Hourly)

Position Summary:
Person in this position will be responsible for providing behavioral-health services to at-risk youth and adolescents in Guam. This role plays a critical part in supporting youth and adolescents in processing traumatic experiences, strengthening protective factors, and promoting long-term mental health and recovery.

Essential Job Functions:
• Coordinating interventions with adolescents, acting as an intervention specialist;
• Conduct mental health screenings to identify emotional, behavioral, and psychological needs of clients, including early identification of risk factors and symptom severity.
• Administer evidence-based suicide risk screenings utilizing program approved tools and clinical judgment to evaluate level of risk and implement appropriate safety planning and interventions.
• Complete thorough biopsychosocial assessments that examine clients’ mental health history, medical and psychiatric background, substance use, family dynamics, social supports, cultural factors, and environmental influences.
• Perform trauma screening and assessments to identify exposure to adverse experiences, trauma symptoms, and functional impact, ensuring a trauma-informed and developmentally appropriate approach.
• Integrate assessment findings into individualized and strength based treatment planning, including recommendations for level of care, referrals, and evidence-based interventions.
• Utilize trauma-informed and evidence-based modalities (e.g., TF-CBT, CBT, DBT skills, Motivational Interviewing)when providing individual, group and family therapy,
• Provide resource information and psychoeducation to clients and families to promote self-sufficiency and informed decision-making.
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• Provide crisis intervention services within an outpatient behavioral health setting to support clients experiencing acute emotional distress or situational crises by focusing on safety planning and coordination of appropriate supports.
• Provide brief case management to coordinate referrals and connect clients with appropriate internal and external services that support treatment goals and overall well being; facilitate warm handoffs to community providers, partner agencies, etc., and monitor follow-through to ensure clients receive appropriate supports that complement clinical care.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members to review assessment findings and coordinate services that support client safety and recovery.
• Participate in team meetings, individual or group clinical supervision, training, and ongoing professional development. Enhance awareness to behavioral health needs, services; and to promote community understand of behavioral health and to enhance community response to behavioral health concerns;
• Maintain data on person served;
• Maintain timely and accurate clinical documentation to include, but not limited to assessments, progress notes, treatment plans, transition and continuing care plans, safety plans, discharge summaries, accounting of disclosures.
• Report and respond appropriately to mandated reporting requirements, including suspected abuse, neglect, or threats to safety.
• Ensure strict adherence to confidentiality requirements, including compliance with HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, and applicable federal, state, and local regulations governing the protection of client information.
• Maintain secure handling, storage, and transmission of client records, both electronic and paper, in accordance with organizational policies and privacy standards.
• Obtain and document informed consent, releases of information, and required authorizations prior to sharing client information.
• Participate in quality assurance and continuous quality improvement activities.
• Participate in peer chart audit reviews, and quality assurance activities to ensure regulatory compliance and documentation integrity.
• Be familiar with disciplinary guidelines and at-risk adolescents characteristics/needs, and with collaborating agency referral guidelines;
• Be familiar with special education regulatory requirements and provide assistance to clients in navigating service systems
• Possess behavioral modification training and knowledge or crisis intervention techniques;
• Foster effective communication with adolescents, parent(s) and other staff members;
• Posses effective organizational and time management skills;
• Embrace and embody the mission, vision, guiding principles, clinical vision and goals of WestCare Foundation; and
• Perform all other duties as assigned.