Clinical Intern/Practicum Student - Center for Specialized Addiction Services

Position Overview: This position is part-time, temporary, goal focused (rather than duty-based), andmust be educationally-related.

Clinical Interns are expected to work no less than 24 hours per academic week, but is negotiable based on the needs of the student or requirements of the academic institute.

Clinical Interns are expected to learn how to and then provide direct services to clients of FRBH as permitted under the policies and procedures of the graduate school with which they are affiliated, as well as the parameters set by FRBH and the related regulatory and funding entities.

Also, Clinical Interns learn how to and then provide community services and other miscellaneous duties to meet the goals of their learning experience with FRBH.

Clinical and administrative supervision of the services delivered by a Clinical Intern is conducted as required by the policies and procedures of the relevant graduate school and as further specified in the Clinical Interns Appointment Letter.

Goals and Responsibilities Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the common and uniform professional ethics for behavioral health professionals.

Demonstrate a professionally acceptable level of judgment skills that maximize protections for consumers, colleagues, and behavioral health entities; especially related to duties to warn and protect, along with how to appropriately navigate a chain of command.

Demonstrate the ability to conduct a point in time assessment for the presence or absence of clinically significant behavioral health issues.

Demonstrate the ability to construct a global assessment of strengths and needs (i.e.

psychosocial assessment) with the appropriate recommendations for modality, frequency, goals and objectives for intervention.

Demonstrate the ability to recognize the importance of and methods for creating, maintaining and accessing relationships with community resources to assist in serving consumers.

Demonstrate the ability to conceptualize, construct, and initiate an individualized treatment plan within the context and resources of a community behavioral health setting.

Demonstrate the ability to adhere to or modify treatment plans as appropriate to achieve treatment goals.

Demonstrate a robust understanding of the professional responsibilities and liabilities in documentation of encounters with behavioral health consumers.

Demonstrate the ability to capture the salient content of sessions through well-crafted, narrative documentation.

Demonstrate the ability to plan and manage a typical daily schedule of a practitioner in a community behavioral health setting.

Demonstrate the ability to recognize when a consumers needs exceed the skills or abilities of a practitioner and how to manage those circumstances.Demonstrate the ability to recognize when treatment is no longer necessary, for either positive and/or negative reasons, and the ability to construct and implement an appropriate termination process including after-care planning.Demonstra...