Merrimack Valley Trauma Services is a recognized regional leader in the field of trauma-focused therapy. Our growing agency has an immediate opening for a strengths-based, professional, self-motivated individual with experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families who have been impacted by psychological trauma. This is a flexible hourly fee-for-service position to start, with the potential to become a full-time salaried position, offering competitive compensation and benefits, and trauma-focused training with highly experienced clinician.
The MVTS Training Program Offers:
- A diversified caseload with consultation and training opportunities. We encourage our staff to maintain caseloads that emphasize quality over quantity, and always include the family in the therapeutic process.
- A trauma-sensitive work environment and collaboration among a small team of professionals who take great pride in their work and their professional development.
- Licensed individual clinical supervision, group supervision, and training opportunities in Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), the Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) model, play therapy, family systems therapy, dance/movement therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and other mind-body approaches.
- Training in electronic records, which creates more efficiency in completing paperwork requirements.
- Private therapy office.
- Billing and administrative support that actively assists you and your clients.
Job Responsibilities:
- Conduct bio-psychosocial assessments and intakes.
- Create individualized, measureable, behavioral treatment plans with clients and their families.
- Provide trauma-focused counseling for children, adolescents, adults, and families.
- Provide education to clients and other providers regarding trauma and its impact.
- Provide parent support and education, involving them in every aspect of their child’s therapy.
- Collaborate with other providers and professionals working with the client and his/her family.
- Complete all paperwork, billing procedures, and documentation according to company policy and managed care guidelines.
Job Requirements:
- Master’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Expressive Therapy, or a related field.
- Licensure (LCSW, LICSW, LMHC) in the state of Massachusetts required.
- A minimum of 2 years (which can include internships) working with children, adolescents, adults, and/or families who have been impacted by psychological trauma, such as physical and sexual abuse, domestic violence, neglect, community violence, grief, and loss.
- Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) certification.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Comfortable using a computer and learning new technologies.
Visit our website: mvtraumaservices.com for information on what sets MVTS apart from other mental health agencies.
Please forward your cover letter and resume, in MS Word or PDF format, to jobs@mvtraumaservices.com.
4–7 PM Hands-on!
Art making for all ages, inspired by works on view. Painting in Reverse: Experiment with painting on an entirely new surface--plexiglass! With quick drying permanent markers, make a “reverse glass painting” inspired by works in the exhibition 体 Modern Images of the Body from East Asia.
6 PM Open Eyes
Join a guided gallery conversation exploring a different art object each month. Museum Shop open + complimentary light refreshments.
Image credit: Lynne Graves for SCMA
Sponsored by: Smith College Museum of Art
The Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights is looking for highly motivated individuals to provide therapy for survivors of torture and war trauma with mental health issues related to trauma and the psychosocial stressors of refugee resettlement and forced acculturation. This individual will act as a supervisor of other Clinical Social Workers. A major component of this position is providing support for asylum seekers through the asylum process as well as writing affidavits and providing testimony when appropriate (as determined by clinician and attorney). Candidate must be comfortable in service delivery in medically based outpatient setting. Candidates must have the ability to provide mental health assessments, create and manage individual treatment plans and write mental health forensic evaluations in support of asylum claims as needed as well as do crisis interventions. This position requires someone with strong cultural skills and the ability to work with a collaborative, interdisciplinary team and an ability to maintain a trauma informed care delivery perspective. This position requires a high degree of flexibility and the willingness to provide case coordination as needed as well as be engaged in grant reporting.
For the full job description, visit the website at: https://jobs.bmc.org/job/BMCEUS2081/Licensed-Independent-Clinical-Social-Worker-Boston-Center-for-Refugee-Health-and-Human-Rights-Supervisor-FT-40hrs-Days.
Applications are accepted online.
The Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights is looking for highly motivated individuals to provide therapy for survivors of torture and war trauma with mental health issues related to trauma and the psychosocial stressors of refugee resettlement and forced acculturation. A major component of this position is providing support for asylum seekers through the asylum process as well as writing affidavits and providing testimony when appropriate (as determined by clinician and attorney). Candidate must be comfortable in service delivery in medically based outpatient setting. Candidates must have the ability to provide mental health assessments, create and manage individual treatment plans and write mental health forensic evaluations in support of asylum claims as needed as well as do crisis interventions. This position requires someone with strong cultural skills and the ability to work with a collaborative, interdisciplinary team and an ability to maintain a trauma informed care delivery perspective. This position requires a high degree of flexibility and the willingness to provide case coordination as needed as well as be engaged in grant reporting.
For the full job description, visit the website at: https://jobs.bmc.org/job/BMCEUS2080/Clinical-Social-Worker-Therapist-Boston-Center-for-Refugee-Health-and-Human-Rights-32hrs-FT.
Applications are accepted online.
As you probably know, NASW is our professional organization and the only one that advocates for policies that assist us in our profession and also promote policies which help our clients. NASW has chapters in all 50 states and when you join as a student, the price is reduced to $57/year, rather than the regular membership price of $225. Quite a bargain. The Western Mass. Coordinator, Jeff Schrenzel, will have a table in the Scales Study Room on Monday, 7/30, from 5:30-7 pm. Sign up, pick up some information and be eligible to win a free Licensing Review Course (a $125 value), which can assist you in passing your licensing exam. So, why not join Jeff at the table. If you have any questions, you can contact him at 413-782-1757.
Dear Colleague,
The Center for Child and Family Health has a job opening, and I would appreciate your help in forwarding this information to recent graduates (for schools of Social Work, Public Health etc.) or anyone else you think may be interested. The position is for a Clinical Research Specialist, which supports the data/training/evaluation work we do at CCFH. This is not primarily a clinical position, although there is some contact with clients/families. A bachelor’s degree or higher is preferred.
The position involves organizing, collecting and maintaining data for several projects; generating reports for our agency, funders, and others; interfacing with Duke IRB; attending research meetings at Duke as a liaison for CCFH’s research activities; contacting clients for quality improvement for the Post Adoption Support Services project; assisting with tasks related to training clinicians in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and for training professionals with a domestic violence project; organizing meetings (creating agendas, notetaking); ordering supplies; and other general support for trainings and events (e.g., managing recruitment and registration, booking space and catering, communicating with presenters).
Although the position is located at our non-profit office, this is a position through Duke University. The official job description and online application process can be accessed through Duke’s HR website here:
View details 102402BR - CLINICAL RESEARCH SPECIALIST, SR
Interested candidates may contact me with questions at kate.murray@duke.edu.
Thank you so much!
-Kate
The Lucy Daniels Center Secure Path Program has a new position open. LDC LOVES Smithies, as we are a psychoanalytically oriented organization. We are especially interested in someone who speaks Spanish.
We are a team of 5 home visitors (soon to be 6). We drive all over Wake County (which is pretty big). 150 miles some days, but I seem to average around 100 miles a day. But, I live in Durham (the neighboring county). The driving is not the best part, but it does offer decompression time between visits.
We visit caretakers (mostly mothers but some grandmothers and the rare dad) and children ages 0-5. We are visiting the Medicaid population. But our program is totally grant funded; so, we can see families that don't have any coverage at all but meet "greatest need" criteria. For Spanish speaking clinicians, we do see a lot of undocumented families.
The goal is to support secure attachment between caretaker and child. We do play therapy, parent guidance, parent therapy, joint parent/child play sessions... whatever seems to work (and limited case management). There are no requirements for Evidence Based Practices, and age is the only time limit. I do use ideas from Circle of Security. Understanding developmental trauma is important. As far as our funder, Smart Start is concerned, it's kindergarten readiness.
For more information, please contact Laurie Herzog (lherzog@smith.edu).
Post-Graduate Fellowships in Clinical Social Work are available in The Meninger Clinic's inpatient adolescent, young emerging adult and adult psychiatry units. This year-long fellowship provides experience in clinical assessment, individual, couple, family and group psychotherapy, crisis intervention and interdisciplinary treatment collaboration. Intensive supervision, case conferences and training seminars.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master's degree in social work (MSW, MSSW) from a graduate college or school of social work accredited by the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE)
- Concentration in clinical social work with specific background working with individuals, families or groups is helpful, as is familiarity with the DSM-V
- LMSW or LCSW from the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners (TSBSWE) before beginning the fellowship
BENEFITS:
- Stipend of $35,000
- Health insurance, vacation and sick leave
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
- Resume
- Transcript
- 3 Letters of recommendation -- at least 2 from supervisors
- Field evaluations
- Clinical paper
- Process recording
DUE DATE
The application deadline for the 2019-2020 fellowship year is February 1, 2019. The fellowship begins Tuesday, September 3, 2019.
More information, including detailed application instructions, can be found here.
The Director of the Training Program, Cynthia Mulder, MSW '99, will be on campus Friday, June 29, from 1-3pm in the Campus Center to chat with interested students.
Are you a single parent wanting to connect with other single parents here with their children? If so, let Dean Pruett know and she will make the connection.
Looking for a late night study space?
The Fine Arts Center atrium is a new alternative study space and is open until 11 p.m. even on weekends! It has recently been fitted out with study tables and chairs and is an awesome, comfortable space to study!