POSITION SUMMARY: The DVI Clinician is responsible for providing therapeutic services to families in Wayne County who have come to the attention of MDHHS/CPS due to experiencing/or have experienced domestic violence. The eligibility criteria are families with an open MDHHS Child Protective Services case, Prevention Case, Foster Care or Delinquency case. Clinical sessions for each client are offered weekly.
Sessions may be a combination of virtual, in-office, home-based, or community based depending upon need and family circumstances, with meeting the client in the home at least once per quarter. The DVI Clinician will provide a wide range of treatment services to survivors/families including but not limited to assessment, individual therapy, family therapy, and group therapy. Batterers will be only offered treatment in a group setting. DVI Clinician will utilize various approaches such as AF-CBT, motivational interviewing, and other evidence-based treatment models as appropriate. The DVI Clinician is responsible for maintaining accurate and current case files which includes documenting all therapeutic contacts, creating and updating treatment plans, and meeting other documentation needs deemed necessary to the DVI program. The group services offered will adhere to the Batterer’s Intervention Programming standards.
Requirements
Qualifications:
Required:
- Therapists must have a minimum of a master’s degree and either certified or licensed by the State to provide individual, group, marital or family counseling or psychotherapy. Those with a limited license are encouraged to apply.
- Established history of maintaining ethical standards and practice; demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills; understanding and acceptance of diversity and individual differences, as well as cultural humility in clinical practice required.
- Flexibility in scheduling duties to meet the needs of the clients.
- Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence training and experience.
Preferred:
- Certification as a Clinical Trauma Professional or equivalent preferred.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
a) Strengthening the bond between child and non-abusive parent
b) Identifying and altering self-defeating behavior
c) Teaching appropriate family roles
d) Teaching the victim how to protect against further victimization
e) Reuniting the nuclear family when appropriate (it is not appropriate to reunite the child victim and the perpetrator of sexual abuse)
f) Monitoring visitation
g) Changing inappropriate family roles
h) Facilitating more adaptive family and interpersonal roles
i) Teaching about the effects of violence
j) Teaching healthy communication
k) Alleviating guilt or depression resulting from victimization
l) Developing effective personal and interpersonal problem-solving methods
m) Resolving individual and/or family dysfunction identified through assessment or in ongoing treatment, which are relative to mistreatment of children
n) Recognizing and addressing perpetrator patterns of coercive control and their impact
o) Recognizing and building on the survivor’s protective capacities.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES/PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES:
A. The Clinician provides intensive in-home and/or community-based treatment interventions/modalities to children and families as indicated in the Treatment Plan.
- Provides competent and efficient individual and/or family psychotherapy to assigned children and families based on the specific treatment needs of the family. Frequency and intensity will vary, again, based on the specific needs of the child/family.
- Provides competent group therapy to assigned clients or families as scheduled and as determined clinically appropriate.
- Treatment modalities will be in-home and/or community based to better meet the needs of the population serviced.
- Maintains current level of competence and provides other therapeutic services in accordance with their license and privileges.
B. The Clinician provides and supports basic coordination of in-home services for each assigned case as needed/required by the Treatment Plan. Treatment services are provided effectively and promote coordination between clinical services and case management duties.
- Assists and cooperates with foster care case management and inter-agency coordination of treatment services for assigned clients and families.
- Provides clinical guidance/information as needed to external providers, e.g. DHHS workers, court, and referral sources.
- Develops and maintains an awareness of community-based referral sources and supports to refer clients as needed. All referrals are carefully planned and support the case plan/discharge plan.
C. When assigned, clients will receive a thorough and complete assessment by the Clinician within 48 hours of the initial interview. Assessments will obtain the client's history and identify specific treatment needs. Treatment needs are to be reevaluated regularly throughout the client’s course of treatment.
- The Clinician will complete an initial evaluation of the client within 48 hours of the first face to face clinical contact. This assessment will be strength- based and sensitive to the specific needs of the child/family.
- The Clinician will appropriately diagnosis the client and identify treatment needs. The Clinician will seek supervisor’s certification of the diagnosis and treatment plan.
D. The Clinician completes a Master Treatment Plan for each assigned client within two weeks of initial contact to identify client needs and interventions to meet those needs. Treatment plans are updated regularly throughout the course of treatment until discharge from clinical services.
- The Clinician will complete a Master Treatment Plan within two weeks of the initial face to face contact based upon the information available. This treatment plan will be thorough and competently done.
- The Clinician will re-evaluate the client’s Master Treatment Plan throughout the course of treatment to identify any new needs or problem areas. The Master Treatment Plan is updated at least every 30 days as required and at critical case review points in the client's treatment.
- To assist in effective treatment planning, the clinician actively participates in Treatment Planning with their supervisor and the agency’s consulting psychiatrist.
- The Clinician will write treatment plans that are behaviorally specific and with goals and objectives that are related to the client/family’s problems.
- The Clinician will complete a Clinical Termination Summary within five days of discharge.
E. The Clinician provides accurate and timely documentation of treatment provided to assigned clients and their families to assure a quality record.
- Documents individual, family, group, and other applicable interactions and interventions in the client's case record within seven days of service.
- Updates the client/family's clinical record in a timely and competent fashion. All documentation submitted to the case file is thorough and legible.
- Completes and submits case presentation request as appropriate.
- Writes clinical summaries in a competent and professional fashion.
F. Fulfills diverse professional responsibilities and attends meetings as assigned or requested.
- Interacts and works professionally with other clinical and assessment staff, as well as inter-agency departments and supervisors.
- Actively seeks administrative and clinical supervision with Director of Clinical Services in a professional fashion in order to address treatment/case planning issues.
- Attends and participates in all weekly/scheduled team meetings and clinical case consultations.
- Participates in live supervision and/or videotaping of sessions for professional development minimum of one time yearly.
- Provides testimony in court as required.
- Assist with departmental projects as assigned.
- Knowledgeable of Orchards’ policies and procedures manual, as well as clinical services policies and procedures manual.
- Participate in agency trainings as necessary/directed.
- Acts as field instructor to student interns as assigned.
- Perform related tasks as assigned by supervisor.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $52,000.00 - $62,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Vision insurance
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Southfield, MI 48075
