SUMMARY
Provides intensive behavioral and emotional services to children and their families within a community based model; leads a 3-person team, with a family case load that is determined by the program service
definition, in providing such services and oversees the functioning of children with mental health
diagnoses by conducting individual and family therapy, overseeing skill building activities, providing
parenting education, intervening during a crisis, providing on-call coverage within the intensive in-home
team 24/7/365, and monitoring symptoms of the child. Responds appropriately and timely to crisis
situations and develops plans involving the least restrictive setting; receives and provides clinical
feedback; leads and participates in the clinical direction of each case assigned, including designating the
appropriate team member for each consumer in accordance with their specialized expertise;
collaborates, coordinates and advocates with collateral agencies and natural supports in order to meet
family and consumer needs in all domains; applies knowledge of child growth and development to
intervention development. Services are provided in the client’s home, school, and community settings.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential
functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Must be a Licensed Independent Practitioner, or have a provisional license and be working under a fully
licensed clinician. One year of documented experience with the child/adolescent mental health
population required.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to develop evidenced based practices and analyze programmatic outcomes. Ability to read,
analyze, and interpret common professional journals. Ability to respond to sensitive inquiries or
complaints from consumers and families, and outside treatment providers, and members of the
community. Ability to write articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. Ability
to effectively present information to management and public groups.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Familiarity with mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test
reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis;
ability to comprehend billable units as it relates to the service authorization process.
REASONING ABILITY
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to deal with
several abstract and concrete variables.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS and TRAINING
LPC, LCSW, LMFT; LPC-A, LCSW-A, and LMFT-A can also be Team Leader as long as they obtain full
licensure within 30 months of date of hire.
Completion of minimum hours of service definitions training including but not limited to Cognitive
Behavior Therapy, Person Centered Planning Instructional Elements, Person Centered Thinking,
Introductory to Motivational Interviewing, Crisis Response, System of Care and Intensive In Home Service
Definition Training within the appropriate timeframes as defined by the Service Definition; Completion of
ongoing refresher trainer as described by Service Definition.
Valid NC driver’s license
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to
enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle,
or feel and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The
employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, and taste or smell. The
employee must occasionally move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include
close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee
encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be
made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the
work environment is usually moderate.
