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Mental Health Clinician (Bilingual Spanish)
Morrison Child and Family ServicesUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 May 2025
💰 $66,260/yr($60,140/yr – $66,260/yr)
About the role
TITLE: Mental Health Clinician - Bilingual SpanishPOSITION: Full Time /ExemptDEPARTMENT/PROGRAM: ORR LOCATION: Hybrid (Onsite - Downtown Shelter)REPORTS TO: Program Director or Clinical Supervisor SALARY: Unlicensed - $30.07/hr. - $33.13/hr. (Licensed - $31.72/hr. - $34.95/hr.) Morrison Child and Family Services: We are a Joint Commission and Sanctuary accredited non-profit organization that provides a comprehensive array of services to children, adolescents, and their families. As an agency, Morrison, its team members, and clients commit to the following values of trauma-informed care:
ORR Immigrant Youth Services - Shelter Our shelter is well equipped to comfortably house and care for up to 25 youth at a time. The youth are place in our residential facility by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) with the main purpose of assessing and completing family reunification in a timely manner. In our residential facility, the youth have access to education, medical, case management, mental health, legal and religious services. The shelter serves adolescent boys and girls (13– 17 years of age) who primarily arrive from Latin American countries, and occasionally from other countries such as Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Position Summary The Mental Health Clinician provides mental health assessments, with the ability to conduct a mental status examination, as well as provides ongoing individual and group counseling services, screens for human trafficking concerns, and provides crisis intervention services. Duties and Responsibilities
- Nonviolence - being safe and doing the right thing
- Emotional Intelligence - managing our feelings so we don’t hurt ourselves or others
- Social Learning - respecting and sharing ideas of our teams
- Democracy - shared decision making whenever possible
- Open Communication - saying what we mean and not being mean when we say it
- Social Responsibility - everyone makes a contribution to the organizational culture
- Growth and Change - creating hope for our clients and ourselves
ORR Immigrant Youth Services - Shelter Our shelter is well equipped to comfortably house and care for up to 25 youth at a time. The youth are place in our residential facility by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) with the main purpose of assessing and completing family reunification in a timely manner. In our residential facility, the youth have access to education, medical, case management, mental health, legal and religious services. The shelter serves adolescent boys and girls (13– 17 years of age) who primarily arrive from Latin American countries, and occasionally from other countries such as Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Position Summary The Mental Health Clinician provides mental health assessments, with the ability to conduct a mental status examination, as well as provides ongoing individual and group counseling services, screens for human trafficking concerns, and provides crisis intervention services. Duties and Responsibilities
- Provides mental health assessments for unaccompanied youth including best practice suicide risk assessments and flight risk assessments
- Provides ongoing individual and group counseling services and ability to conduct a mental status examination, and when appropriate, may complete a DSM diagnosis
- Provides required documentation, services and external communication for youth on their caseload
- Referrals for Psychiatric and Psychological services
- Develops and facilitates transition plans for clients per ORR guidelines
- May help supervise children and youth in milieu, on outings, and to appointments outside facility
- Demonstrate a commitment to developing a thorough knowledge and application of the Sanctuary model and other organizational policies & practices.
- Participate in staff development, in-services, and training related to workplace effectiveness; model professional behaviors and implement improvements to business practices with awareness of their impact in a trauma-informed behavioral healthcare organization.
- Master’s degree in social work with clinical experience in the program, or Master’s degree in psychology, sociology, or other relevant behavioral science in which direct clinical experience is a program requirement
- Bi-lingual in Spanish and English, written, read and verbal required. Must clear a language proficiency test for Spanish.
- Licensure or licensed eligible preferred
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