EEOC: Professional

Workers Comp Code: Clerical

Hourly/Salary: Salary

Job Category: IC

Job Family: Services

Job Level: 3

Job Summary:

The Pacific Clinics Internship/Trainee Program provides experiential training from a broad, generalist perspective with the goal of developing Trainees’ basic competency to provide mental health services in community-based settings. Accordingly, Trainees need to develop a range of skills, attitudes, ethics, values, sensitivities, and compassion that will make them useful and protective of the people they serve in our community.

The PROFESSIONAL CLINICAL COUNSELOR TRAINEE practicum program is a ten-month to one-year long (20-hour/week) training program. It aims to provide trainees with clinical, team oriented, real-world experience. Trainees are assigned a variety of clients to provide individual, family and group therapy. Supervision includes individual, triadic and group models, building on strengths, support and constructive supervision and training. In addition, Trainees are provided intensive and therapeutic, model-specific trainings on a weekly and monthly basis, including Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) trainings.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Conducts family-centered, strengths-based, culturally competent individualized intakes/assessments, gathering information from family, consumers, significant others and involved agencies in the office or in the field as appropriate, which includes gathering information regarding consumer’s healthcare, substance abuse, co-occurring disorders, employment or housing, as appropriate, for treatment planning.
• Completes Service and Coordination Plans, progress notes, other DMH required documentation and billing within two to three business days of service delivery to meet the standards of the Department of Mental Health Short/Doyle Medi-Cal, Pacific Clinics and its funding sources.
• Provides rehabilitative services to clients and/or their families which might include assistance in restoring or maintaining a client’s functional skills, daily living skills, social skills, and linking to needed community services and support resources.
• Provides outreach, advocacy, rehabilitative services and crisis intervention.
• Provides case management, which might include obtaining client information to determine needs, linking clients and their families to appropriate resources.
• Provides services in the community or in the field consistent with program and funding source contractual requirements.
• Works with the treatment team to provide appropriate coordinated care services to clients and their families.
• Reports to work on time and maintains reliable and regular attendance.
• Models Pacific Clinics’ approach, mission and core values in all communications
• The trainee will learn and be exposed to:
• A wide variety of pathologies from our socio-economically diverse and multi-cultural population.
• The trainee will experience various treatment modalities that could include traditional individual psychotherapy, family therapy, social skills training as well as Evidence- Based- Treatment (EBP) such as Seeking Safety or Aggression Replacement Training (ART).
• Case assignments that match the training needs, interests, and competency level of the trainee.
• A broad training experience of supervision, case conferences, and a multidisciplinary team treatment approach provides an excellent atmosphere for skill development and professional growth. Supervisors have a variety of theoretical orientations including cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, and trans-theoretical. The agency follows a psychosocial rehabilitation model for recovery.
• There are opportunities for one-to-one intakes, psycho-educational groups, child and adolescent groups, social skills groups, and individual/family/group therapy.
• The trainees attend weekly training and seminars that are available through the Pacific Clinics Training Institute on a wide variety of topics.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

• Initiate and maintain professional interactions and communication with Clinic’s employees and/or others, which includes the following
• Displays sensitivity to the cultural and linguistic needs of the clients and families served.
• Interacts well with other internal programs, clinical/support staff and with external sources such as school or community personnel as applicable.
• Attends and participates in staff meetings to provide input towards program development and staff training, as appropriate.
• Communicates effectively within a diverse consumer population and promotes favorable interaction with managers, co-workers and others

QUALIFICATIONS

• A Clinical Professional Trainee is an individual who is enrolled in a degree program that is designed to qualify the person for LPCC licensure and has completed no less than 12 semester units or 18 quarter units of coursework in that degree program.
• All counseling services provided by a Trainee must constitute part of the supervised course of study. No hours earned as a Trainee may count toward the 3,000 hours of experience required for licensure.
• Must be enrolled in and provide evidence of eligibility for completion of a master's degree program in a related field within six (6) months of the hire date into the position
• Experience in serving youth with special needs and their families in a variety of settings. Must be concurrently enrolled in a supervised practicum course at the graduate institution.
• Must demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience and ability to relate to a culturally diverse clientele and staff.
• In some sites at Pacific Clinics, bilingual skills in the appropriate language for the Clinics’ clients are preferred.
• Demonstrate familiarity with MS Windows operating system, MS WORDS, EXCEL, OUTLOOK and ability to learn Electronic Health Record Systems to compose correspondence/notes using correct format and grammar.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Level Of Contact With Children

✅ May/will have unsupervised contact with children.

✅ Requires full background check and TB exam.

Driving Privileges

✅ May be called upon to drive on agency business. Needs acceptable MVR and appropriate insurance coverage

Training

Needs to successfully complete all required agency training indicated for this position.

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