Clinical Administrator, Metro Treatment Unit

The Department of Youth Services (DYS) is the juvenile justice agency for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  We work with young people who are detained or committed and provide detention, custody, diagnosis, education and support to young people ages 12-21. Most of the youth served are between the ages 14 and 21. The Department promotes positive change for the youth committed to our care, and has been on the forefront of de-institutionalization, in part, by providing adolescent-focused rehabilitation to youth in residential treatment.

The Department of Youth Services employs staff in various professions and backgrounds in order to engage young people in strategies that support positive youth development.

We are seeking energetic, positive and dynamic individual for the role of Clinical Administrator at Metro Treatment Program, located at 450 Canterbury Street, Roslindale, MA 02131.

The incumbent of this position will work with adolescent/young adult males. He/she will provide clients with clinical social work services in order to promote and maintain maximum psychosocial functioning; function as integral members of multidisciplinary treatment teams; perform intake functions; organize and coordinate the provision of clinical services for a unit; perform diagnostic evaluations, develop and implement treatment, rehabilitation, crisis, transfer, and/or discharge plans; prepare professional documentation; develop and evaluate programs; provide treatment and psychotherapy to individuals or groups.  

For additional information about the Department of Youth Services and its programs please watch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gyP0kCJ181nBakh9Cc0pNNEyPw7kAoI6/view

Duties and Responsibilities (these duties are a general summary and not all inclusive):

• Provide advocacy; supervise staff; provide consultation and education.

• Ensure that the clinical profiles are up-to-date and accurate for each youth in the program.

• Update Regional Clinical Coordinator or clinical designee on youth with mental health concerns, complex histories, and complex treatment needs.

• Lead/Co-lead and oversee therapy groups including: The Dialectical Behavioral Therapy groups (DBT), Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse Treatment, and Offender groups.

• Provide/Oversee crisis interventions, individual therapy, and family therapy.

• Oversee treatment planning.

• Ensure that all clinical documentation is completed as required. 

• Refer youth for psychiatric consultation. Ensure that the Department’s Psychotropic Medication Policy is followed and required documentation is prepared and maintained.

• Serve as a liaison with emergency mental health services network for clients requiring screening for acute psychiatric hospitalization.

• Provide data to Regional Clinical Coordinator or clinical designee.

• Participate in the program’s management team and work with the Program 

• Director to identify staff needs and, in conjunction with the Program Director and/or Regional Clinical Coordinator or clinical designee, design staff training programs.

• As part of the unit management team, conduct reviews of the behavioral management system and client advocate system and implement any necessary changes or modifications.

• Provide supervision to clinicians.

• Participate in monthly Clinical Director meetings.

• Meet with the Regional Clinical Coordinator and/or Regional Clinician on a