Career Opportunities

Position Title: Full-Time Clinician

Department: Pompton Lakes & West Milford offices

Responsible To: Supervising Clinician/AFS

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Social Work, Psychology or related field.
• Two years of supervised post-graduate experience and evidence of clinical competency individual, group and family therapy, crisis intervention, and case management preferred.
• Good communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as member of the multi-disciplinary treatment team for the purposes of delivering outpatient services to individuals, children, families and groups through the use of individual, family and group psychotherapy modalities.
• Completes assessments of consumers assigned through the Access Department.
• Responds to telephone and walk-in inquiries, conducts intakes and provides follow-up contact needed.
• Manages all aspects of treatment with assigned consumers (minimum of 35) for full-time clinicians: arranges for psychiatric evaluations as needed, implements prescribed treatment plan, monitors medication needs, communicates with other authorized individual and treatment providers, provides authorized reports.
• Serves as member of the multi-disciplinary treatment team for the purpose of assessing client strengths and needs, developing and reviewing individual treatment plans, and implementing treatment plans. Keeps other members of the team informed of the client's course of treatment and changes in functioning.
• Develops and modifies treatment plans with consumers in response to their changing needs, but no less frequently than required by standard.
• Conducts telephone assessments of potential emergency situations, reviews with supervisor for disposition, makes referrals as needed and provides follow-up.
• Provides accurate and timely documentation of treatment provided for all assigned consumers and their families as related to the individual treatment plan.
• Updates clinical record according to agency standards: treatment plan updates, new information, transfer summary, ongoing progress, crisis intervention, correspondence, etc.
• Participates in assigned managed care organizations and manages related paperwork.
• Participates in staff and supervision meetings and NewBridge committee meetings as assigned.
• Enhances professional competency by staying familiar with developments in the field of mental health, maintains licensure/certification.
• Provides feedback to supervisor and staff regarding trainings and workshops attended for continued professional development and on behalf of NewBridge.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job includes competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and 403b retirement plan.

To apply for this position, please email cover letter, resume and salary requirements to jobs@newbridge.org or fax to Dolores Nagle, Human Resources Coordinator, at (973) 839-4770.

NewBridge Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.