The JOBS Clinician provides clinical case management services to youth, ages 16-22, with emotional/behavioral disabilities through assessment, treatment planning, coordination, and monitoring of services. Service provision include supportive counseling, skills training, facilitation with accessing basic living supports and crisis intervention.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate care and ensure appropriate services for youth and advocate across service systems among client’s team members
- Work with youth to identify treatment goals, conduct clinical assessments, and provide comprehensive case management services
- Connect youth to work-skill training opportunities, as well as identifying both short term and long term career interests
- Help youth identify, acquire, and maintain competitive employment in the community
- Develop and maintain productive relationships with area service providers and community employers
- Crisis Intervention
- Complete administrative tasks including clinical documentation, diagnostic assessments, quarterly reports, and grant evaluations
Requirements:
- Master’s degree in a related field
- Valid driver’s license and an acceptable driving record with use of a personal vehicle
- 3 years of experience working with transition-age youth
- On the roster of Non-licensed and Non-certified Psychotherapists
Effective January 1, 2016, Vermont regulation mandates that individuals who are on the Roster of Nonlicensed Noncertified Psychotherapists, through the Office of Professional Regulation, must be actively working towards professional licensure and be fully licensed within 5 years of Roster date of issue. This rule does not apply to First Call for Chittenden County.
Structure:
- Full-time
- AFSCME Union (dues will apply)
- Annual salary starting at $56,747.24 (Non-Licensed) $60,662.80 (Licensed)
- We offer a competitive salary commensurate to experience
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Benefits:
- Generous time off starting at 36 days of combined time off per year for full-time employees (and increasing with years of service); pro-rated for positions 16 hours or more
- Comprehensive Medical Insurance with 80% agency-paid premium support for individuals, couples, and families (pro-rated for part time). This Point of Service Plan features no deductible.
- Two Dental options
- Vision Insurance
- Employer 401(k) contributions
- Employer Paid Life, AD&D, Short Term and Long Term insurance
- Medical & Childcare Flexible Spending Account
- Childcare Stipend
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee referral program with financial payment
- Discounted online undergraduate/graduate courses through Champlain College truED
- Award-winning workplace wellness program including physical fitness groups for staff, financial wellness incentives, and ongoing workplace wellness advocacy and education
- Voluntary benefits from local/international businesses: discounted gym memberships, mobile phone service, ski/snowboard passes, auto/home insurance, and more!
Our Values: Clients are at the heart of our decision making. We are committed to individual and collective well-being and success. We are responsible stewards of the resources entrusted to us. We are steadfast in our practice and pursuit of excellence.
Howard Center is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. The agency’s culture and service delivery is strengthened by the diversity of its workforce. Minorities, people of color, LGBTQIA and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. Visit “About Us” to review Howard Center’s EOE policy.
Howard Center established the Diversity Coordinator position in 2006. In 2015, Howard Center contracted with Abundant Sun to help collect and analyze demographic data. The same year, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) was integrated into the overall Strategic Plan and became accountable to the Board of Directors. In 2017, DEI was formally recognized as a department. In 2022 the organization hired its first DEI director and now runs a department comprising the director, manager, and coordinator of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Today, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department implements key initiatives both within and beyond the Howard Center community:
• Bi-monthly Roundtable discussions open to all Howard Center employees, including: neurodiversity, psychiatric survivors, destigmatizing houselessness, trans affirming care and cultural compassion.
• Bi-monthly toolkits on topics such as: Juneteenth, intersectionality, microaggressions.
• Mandatory staff training on unconscious bias, inclusive language, and racial and cultural competence.
• Contributions to our free and open to the public Community Education Series.
• Participation in the local Pride Parade and regional conferences.
• Collaborative work with community partners.
• Policy and systemic advocacy within the agency.
• Collaborations with HR to ensure inclusive hiring, retention, and accommodation support for staff.
