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‍Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage intake for both children and adult programs
• Provide assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for clients
• Provide therapy interventions for individuals, couples, families, and groups
• Provide assessment and diagnosis using DSM5 criteria
• Complete billable therapy or diagnostic sessions each per week
• Develop treatment plans for clients that reflect diagnoses and other mental health/behavioral problems
• Collaborate with other service and mental/physical health care providers as needed, provided the client has signed a release of information allowing it
• Maintain and develop case load, appointments, and schedule
• Complete required documentation in a timely manner
• Accommodate walk-in clients in crisis or with urgent needs
• Create and provide educational training or support groups, when necessary
• Provide home/community visit after traumatic death/loss
• Provide timely initial assessment, brief intervention, referral and follow up, when necessary, requested by superiors
• Provide grief and bereavement focused support groups and psychotherapy
• Develop clinical protocols, guidelines, training, presentations to support the clinical interventions to the suicide prevention services
• Respond to urgent needs request from the community during non-office hours, when necessasry
• Attend staff meetings, case consultations, and trainings as requested
• Create medical records for current and previous clients
• Provide services at different JFS locations, when necessary

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Education:

• Licensure: Current LMSW
• Bilingual preferred

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Qualifications:

• Experience intake screening and assessment
• Experience diagnosing mental health and substance use disorders using DSM 5 criteria
• Experience treating mental health disorders
• Experience providing individual, group, and/or family counseling
• Familiarity with and experience in referring clients to outside resources and services, such as substance abuse facilities
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent Excel skills
• Working knowledge of community resources
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To apply to please email resume to:

Ada Cheung, Ph.D., LCSW-S, RPT^TM

Chief Clinical Officer

acheung@alexanderjfs.org

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