The School-Based Clinician provides comprehensive mental health services to children and adolescents within educational settings. This role encompasses conducting thorough evaluations, delivering evidence-based individual and family therapy, and offering case consultations. The clinician must demonstrate expertise in childhood and adolescent diagnoses, developmental stages, and the biopsychosocial factors affecting development. Core responsibilities include formulating individualized treatment plans, and maintaining effective communication with school personnel, including administrators, teachers, and special education staff. The position requires active participation in administrative and clinical meetings, collaborative work with interdisciplinary teams, engagement in clinical supervision, and consistent communication with referral sources. Additionally, the clinician coordinates with utilization review staff to ensure proper service authorization while independently managing their schedule to meet both patient and organizational needs
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
- CLINICAL WORK
- QUALITY ASSURANCE AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT (QAPI)
- ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- CONSULTATION / EDUCATION SERVICES
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTES TO POSITIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT WITH
COWORKERS AND CUSTOMERS
- Minimum Education: Professional independent licensure in State of Kansas is required; LSCSW, LMLP, Psy. D, Ph.D, LPCP or LCMFT preferred; if LMSW, LMFT, or LMLP, must be working toward clinical independent licensure.
- Minimum Experience: Practicum, internship, or other experience working with children and adolescents, adults, families and group work and experience coordination of services with other State Protective and private collateral agencies is required
- Must have good listening skills, verbal skills, and written communication skills
- Must be able to observe patient demeanor and nonverbal communication for assessment purposes
- Must be able and willing to have some flexibility in scheduling, to meet patient and organization needs
- Must maintain Kansas State licensure and appropriate CEU’s
- Must be able to communicate effectively with referral sources and external care providers
- Must have credentials or experience sufficient to be privileged to do outpatient admissions, individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, neuropsychological and psychological testing (as appropriate to credentials) and collateral consultations
- Must be proficient at basic keyboarding/word processing skills
- Must be able to pass Kansas Bureau of Investigation Screen, Central Registry Screen, and DCF (Kansas Dept. for Children & Families, formerly SRS) background check
