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HopeWell Inc

Licensed Clinician - ($5K Signing Bonus!)

4 months ago

Worcester

Job Description $5,000 Signing Bonus! $3,500 Bilingual Bonus! Immediately Hiring! We're seeking a licensed clinician who combines professional excellence with genuine compassion to transform family outcomes. You'll bring advanced therapeutic skills directly into homes and communities, creating healing environments for children and families referred by the Department of Children and Families (DCF). Your clinical license isn't just a credential—it's the foundation for your adaptable, strengths-based approach that helps families navigate complex challenges toward reunification or permanency planning. If you thrive in dynamic settings, find fulfillment in meeting clients where they are, and believe in every family's capacity for positive change, your expertise could become the catalyst that helps vulnerable families rewrite their stories. Apply Today! About the Program We intervene upstream by teaming up with families to stay together. Families in crisis are often facing real-world stressors, such as poverty. But the right combination of supports when they need it most can help build bridges to brighter days. Through our Support & Stabilization program, we provide intensive in-home supports to families involved with the Department of Children and Families (DCF) who are working to maintain or regain custody of their children. We provide services to alleviate the crises that brought them there, so that more families can stay intact and fewer children are placed into foster care. The Impact You'll Create As a Licensed Clinician guided by our Clinical Supervisor, you'll become the cornerstone of transformative care teams that change family trajectories. Your specialized therapeutic expertise will empower children and families as you collaborate seamlessly with HopeWell's resource teams and DCF partners in a unified mission of healing. Through trauma-informed individual and family therapy, you'll help clients rewrite narratives of pain into stories of possibility. Your clinical insights will inform case management strategies that connect families to vital community resources, while your advocacy ensures every child's voice is heard and honored. With each therapeutic relationship, you'll not only safeguard children's immediate well-being but also nurture the family resilience that creates lasting stability, turning professional standards into deeply personal victories for the families who need your expertise most. Responsibilities: • Provide in-person community-based clinical counseling services for a caseload of children, adolescents, and families, • Conduct ongoing assessments and evaluations of children’s and families’ strengths, progress, and needs, • In conjunction with the treatment team, develop strength-based treatment plans and safety plans as needed for each child or family, outlining specific goals, objectives and evidence-based therapeutic interventions, • In cases where the service delivery calls for a team approach, act as the primary HopeWell team lead to ensure a safe, affirming environment is established and maintained for all youth served, • Maintain case files and documentation for children, foster families, and biological families in accordance with state regulations and agency policies, • Develop a working knowledge of community resources and make referrals and connections on behalf of those served, • Assist caregivers in navigating systems, to promote their awareness of resources and access to supports, • Collaborate with DCF, community organizations and service providers as appropriate, • Attend all necessary meetings, including but not limited to Foster Care Reviews, treatment planning meetings, and intake and discharge planning meetings, • Provide transportation for children to visits, appointments, court, meetings etc. as needed, • Participate in after-hours on-call system on a rotating basis. This may occasionally include an emergency in-person response outside of business hours, • Provide all pertinent paperwork, receipts, and necessary information to ensure timely and accurate processing of billing, reimbursements, client support expenses, purchases, etc., • Master’s degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Marriage and Family therapy, or related discipline., • Mid-tier license (LCSW, LSMHC) working towards independent licensure within licensing standards required, • Independent License Preferred (LMHC, LICSW, LMFT), • Minimum of 1 year in a clinical setting working with children, adolescents, and families with severe behavioral, social, and emotional difficulties, • A valid MA State Driver’s License and reliable transportation, • Computer proficiency, including the ability to work with email and word-processing software, • Ability to multitask efficiently, make decisions, direct others, and support them clinically, • Empathy and desire to work with youth and families, and demonstrates flexibility/adaptability, resourcefulness, and professionalism, • Demonstrated experience working with children, adolescents, and families, including experience navigating children’s systems and supports within the community, • Knowledge of and training in child development, children’s mental health, family systems, and therapeutic interventions, • Capacity to be nonjudgmental in interacting with families involved in child welfare, • Ability to support families in developing their strengths to problem-solve and develop practical skills, • Ability to establish trusting relationships through compassion, empathy, and insight, • Clearing of background checks as required by state and federal law, • Must remain current in all required trainings and licensure requirements, • Access to an automobile is required as is a valid Driver’s License, • Staff schedules can shift over time as youth needs, staff caseloads, and program needs change, • Some evening and weekend work as well as occasional in-person emergency response outside of business hours may be required, • Competitive compensation structure!, • Generous Signing Bonus!, • Comprehensive total rewards package!, • Full suite of healthcare benefits, • Dental Insurance, • Medical Insurance, • Vision Insurance, • Student loan pay-down assistance!, • Tuition reimbursement!, • Retirement Benefits - 401k + match up to 6%, • Generous bilingual bonus!, • New hires who speak a second language - $3,500 bonus!, • Funding for professional development, • Generous paid time-off!, • Up to 5 weeks off; 2 floating holidays, 2 personal days, 14 paid holidays, up to 15 sick days! Company DescriptionWhat We Do Each year, we provide a range of critical services to children, families, and individuals across Massachusetts. We are the largest nonprofit provider of comprehensive foster care in Massachusetts. We also support children experiencing foster care as they grow their early literacy skills; youth who are “aging out” of foster care and transitioning into adulthood; families involved with the child welfare system; and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Hopewell has been supporting, empowering, and uplifting those in our care for six decades.What We Do\r\n\r\nEach year, we provide a range of critical services to children, families, and individuals across Massachusetts.\r\n\r\nWe are the largest nonprofit provider of comprehensive foster care in Massachusetts. We also support children experiencing foster care as they grow their early literacy skills; youth who are “aging out” of foster care and transitioning into adulthood; families involved with the child welfare system; and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.\r\n\r\nHopewell has been supporting, empowering, and uplifting those in our care for six decades.

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