Family-Based Intensive Treatment (FIT) Clinician

Are you looking to use your Master’s degree to help youth live their best lives?

Do you want to support families to find stability and compassion in their care?

Who We Are Looking For

Are you the Family-Based Intensive Treatment (FIT) Clinician we have been looking for? In this position, you will be convey your passion for helping others as part of a small, dedicated team working with youth. JRI’s Community Service Agencies are committed to offering these teams to include a combination of medically necessary intensive family therapy, robust care coordination, and Family Partner engagement for MassHealth youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED). You will focus on improving the youth’s mental health concerns, while strengthening the family structure and support. Our staff provide the FIT service in home and community settings and facilitate a consistent, strength-based therapeutic relationship with the families we serve.

JRI Provides The Training So That

• You will provide intensive family therapy, crisis intervention, treatment planning, and assessments.
• You will design and deliver focused, strategic, evidence-based interventions and behavioral techniques to build skills, safety planning, strengthen family dynamics, and may prevent the need for the youth’s admission to an inpatient hospital, psychiatric residential treatment facility, or other treatment setting.
• You will serve as a vital member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team that works together to find the best and most effective methods of guiding and supporting youth and their families.
• You will use your skills to develop a structured, consistent, strength-based therapeutic relationship with the youth and families you work with in order to help improve the youth’s behavioral health needs, including improving the family’s ability to provide effective support for the youth to promote their healthy functioning within the family.
• You will use your passion to provide culturally competent, trauma informed, confidential clinical services to guide care for the youth at the center of your care.
• You will provide consultation to collaterals including schools and medical service providers to help the youth you serve navigate their lives with more support.
  
  

Why JRI?

• Be who you are! JRI is committed to creating a workplace built on respect, collaboration, and opportunity, where every employee is valued and supported in making a meaningful impact.
• We offer a $2,000 bilingual bonus to new hires who speak a second language other than English!
• Reimbursement is available for employees to cover the registration costs and annual fees for any professional license required for work such as LMHC, LCSW, LICSW, RN and more!
• Access to our excellent Blue Cross medical and Delta Dental benefits.
• Retirement benefits including 401K matched up to $800 a year and pension after 5 years of employment.
• Professional development opportunities such as tuition reimbursement up to almost $4000 per year and discounted tuition rates to select partnership colleges and universities!
• Wellness benefits including access to employee engagement groups, self-care resources, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Generous paid time off up to 19 days for full time employees in your first year and much more!
  
  

Requirements

• Minimum Master’s degree or above in the mental health field, must be licensed OR working towards your license and License eligible (LCSW, LICSW, LMHC or LMFT). JRI will support you in gaining your licensure hours and testing.
• Proven ability to form therapeutic relationships with people from various backgrounds including those of different racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious and sexual orientation identities.
• Must have daily access to reliable, insured vehicle and active Driver’s License.
• Must be willing to maintain a flexible work schedule and to participate in an on-call schedule.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn electronic medical record software and basic computer functions including the Microsoft Suite.
• Clinical experience with children/adolescents is required and familiarity with trauma informed models of treatment preferred. Experience with community mental health programs or providing family therapy preferred but not required.
• Background and driving record checks will be performed.
  
  

At JRI, we are committed to fostering a workplace where every team member feels valued and respected. We believe that a culture built on mutual respect, collaboration, and opportunity allows our staff to thrive and do their best work. By supporting one another and recognizing each person's contributions, we create an environment where people can grow, develop their skills, and make a meaningful impact in the communities we serve. JRI is an equal opportunity employer.

$2000 Sign on Bonus available for this position.