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The Clinician - Youth will be working in youth services provides clinical assessment, treatment, and care coordination service to children and adolescents with behavioral health needs and their families Working within a trauma-informed, strengths-based framework, the clinician delivers developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive interventions that promote emotional well-being, safety, and functional improvement across home, school, and community settings. This role collaborates closely with caregivers, schools, child-serving systems, and interdisciplinary team members to support positive youth and family outcomes while ensuring compliance with Maine regulatory, licensing, and organizational requirements.

Salary Range:

Conditional Licensure $60,000 - $62,000 dependent on years of experience

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Conduct intakes, comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments, including risk assessments for suicide, self-harm, and safety concerns.
• Develop, implement, and regularly review individualized treatment plans in partnership with youth and families.
• Monitor progress toward treatment goals and adjust interventions based on needs.
• Provide evidence-based therapeutic interventions appropriate to youth developmental stage and clinical presentation.
• Engage youth, families, and caregivers as partners in treatment through shared decision-making and strengths-based approaches.
• Incorporate youth voice and choice into all aspects of care.
• Support caregivers in understanding behavioral health needs, skill development, and crisis prevention strategies.
• Participate in team meetings, case conferences, and care planning activities.
• Support continuity of care, including referrals and transitions between levels of care when needed.
• Complete timely, accurate, and clinically appropriate documentation in accordance with regulatory requirements and organizational policies.
• Identify and respond to emerging and immediate safety concerns, including using crisis intervention techniques and safety planning.
• Follow protocols related to critical incidents, mandated reporting, and duty to warn.
• Coordinate with supervisor and crisis services as needed to ensure youth and family safety.
• Participate in requires supervision, consultation, and training.
• Demonstrate openness to feedback and commitment to ongoing professional growth.
• Contribute to a positive, supportive organizational culture that values collaboration.
• Adhere to trauma-informed care principles in all interactions.
• Participate in program development, quality improvement initiatives, and outcome measurements.
• Participate in on-call as necessary
• Meet all set program expectations and deadlines.
• Other duties as assigned.

GENERAL EXPECTATIONS:

• Be committed to the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
• Provide information about the Program partnering organizations and work with them on referrals.
• Work collaboratively as a member of a team with various groups of staff, depending on the issue
• addressed.
• Assure quality in work performed to facilitate the delivery of quality services.
• Reports accidents and injuries in a timely fashion, demonstrates safe housekeeping practices, notifies supervisor of potential health and safety concerns immediately, participates in health and safety training as required, understands and follows all Sweetser health and safety policies.
• Ability to support and recognize the important role volunteers play. Sweetser employees work with, support, collaborate with volunteers, and promote opportunities for volunteer engagement.
• Assure quality service for clients by enforcing rules, regulations, and legal requirements with clients.
• Adhere to professional code of ethics.
• Maintain organization credibility by establishing working relationships with sponsoring advisory and related service agencies.
• Promote the organization by understanding services available through Sweetser and informing clients and community representatives of these services.
• Maintain historical records by documenting treatment events and ensuring the timely completion of all programmatic paperwork.
• Contribute to the clinical profession by actively participating in meetings, conferences, and internal trainings; consulting with other professionals; and advocating professional values.
• Contribute to team effort by working with others to meet expected service outcomes.
• Fulfill job function by participating as an active member in all training and participating on organization task forces.
• Follow Suicide Safer Care and Safety Care practices.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPECTATIONS:

Customer Focus Competency

• Anticipates customer needs and is responsive to customer feedback by taking action to make things better.
• Treats others with courtesy and respect, projecting an approachable manner at all times.
• Meets needs of customers through reliable work attendance and completion of job duties.
• Arrives to work and meetings on time; returns from breaks and lunch at designated time.
• Works with, supports, collaborate with volunteers and interns, and promote opportunities for volunteer and intern engagement.
• Maintains professional boundaries with all clients, co-workers, visitors, and community partners.
• Shares responsibility by taking initiative to assist coworkers.

Team Orientation Competency

• Maintains confidentiality in client, family, and personal communications.
• Expresses ideas professionally, clearly, and concisely both verbally and in writing, without the use offensive language.
• Shares appropriate information necessary for team members (departmental and interdepartmental) to effectively plan, anticipate, and be proactive participants in the service provided.
• Communicates with individuals about issues as they arise, in a direct and timely manner that is positive and builds trust and confidence in the organization. Expresses disagreement constructively.
• Maintains alignment and collaboration with leadership and coworkers through respectful communication by providing consistent and coordinated messages.

Quality Competency

• Identifies, supports, and participates in continuous quality improvement activities by developing or participating in strategies to improve processes.
• Assesses problems and evaluates options by considering available resources, implications, and consequences.
• Uses the plan, do, check, act strategy to meet quality outcomes.
• Approaches tasks with diligence, timeliness, and attention to detail.
• Maintains alignment with team, supervisory, and management goals, objectives, and direction of the organization.
• Identifies ways to be fiscally efficient while supporting quality service and mission attainment.
• Enhances quality performance by participating in professional training and development opportunities.

Safety Competency

• Adheres to safety procedures and works to prevent accidents and injuries, including good ergonomic practices. Reports accidents, injuries, or emergencies to Supervisor and Human Resources within 48 hours.
• Maintains a professional appearance and is attired to support safe completion of assigned duties; utilizes personal protective equipment/safety devices to prevent injury.
• Demonstrates good housekeeping practices, helping to maintain the professional appearance and safety of facilities, to ensure they are easily and safely accessible. Returns all equipment to its proper place and cleans work areas promptly.
• Notifies facilities staff as appropriate of safety issues needing to be addressed.
• Wears and displays identification badge in Sweetser facilities and as appropriate when working in the community. Approaches individuals not displaying Sweetser identification, offering assistance and escorting them to their destination whenever possible.

5 Basic Principles Standard

• Focus on the situation, issue or behavior, not on the person.
• Maintain the self-confidence and self-esteem of others.
• Maintain constructive relationships.
• Take Initiative to make things better.
• Lead by example.

JOB DESCRIPTION CHARACTERISTICS

CLINICAL PRODUCTIVITY:

N/A

EDUCATION:

• Master’s degree in social work, counseling or closely related field with some concentration in family systems and family development required.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED:

• Valid state driver’s license.
• LCSW or LCPC

EXPERIENCE:

• 2+ years’ experience working with children (and their families) who have severe emotional disturbance, or mental health challenges, autism or PDD.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Provide professional leadership to a multi-disciplinary team, collaborate and organize effectively, and understand and work with complex systems.
• Respond to clients, family and colleagues in a sensitive and respectful manner.
• Assess variables underlying difficult situations, discern methods to diffuse or contain them and quickly implement the most effective intervention.
• Apply current knowledge of the population’s needs, area resources and policy requirements to supervision and intervention while continually expanding clinical and resource knowledge base.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, peers and the community.
• Manage multi-task situations and conflicting demands, cope with stressful situations, prioritize projects and responsibilities, and meet critical deadlines.
• Knowledge of education regulations
• State level systems of care (juvenile justice, child welfare, behavioral health, MaineCare)

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by the incumbent to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA):

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, must be able to perform the essential job functions (as listed) either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by management on a case-by-case basis.

HIPAA REQUIREMENTS:

This position may involve working with information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and incumbents will be required to be in compliance with HIPAA in the handling of this information.

DISCLOSURE:

All statements in this document are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required.